Inspiration for bill monroe's "scotland"

[Bren]

I like Bill Monroe's tune "Scotland" and I've often wondered what he was thinking of when he composed it. Pipe tunes? A specific Scottish tune? A vague memory? A general "feeling"?

It now seems to me that it resembles "Keel Row"

Is this:
a) old news?
b) a startling new insight?
c) too much whisky. Go to bed Bren

[evanreilly]

Ah, the quasi-melodic droning of the stuck pigs!
Bill was thinking of the pipes, the Tunes of Glory!
Maybe 'Scotland the Brave'; or, 'The Keel Row'.

[jmcgann]

Impressionism in Blue Grass Music! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif