Career
When Bill joined them in 1929 they were working in East Chicago at the Sinclair Oil refinery. There, the brothers played local venues and dances. Birch later joined Bill in 1946 on a recording session in Chicago.
A session that included Earl Scruggs.
Birch sang bass on the gospel number "Wicked Path of Sin." Birch would play bass on tour with Bill after Howard Watts left the band. Birch Monroe was also manager, in the early 1960s, of Bill Monroe"s country music park, the Brown County Jamboree, in Bean Blossom, Indiana.
