[2] Each then formed his own band, with Bill starting The Kentuckians (later the Blue Grass Boys) and Charlie, The Kentucky Pardners.

Charlie brought members of the Monroe Brothers act with him to Knoxville and then to Roanoke playing on radio stations.

By this time he had hired Bill Calhoun and Zeke Morris, and he was attempting a re-creation of the Monroe Brothers duet sound.

[3] He spent most of his time during the early 1940s in Greensboro, North Carolina at radio station WBIG, where he was featured on a show called the Noonday Jamboree every day.

[4] A number of noted bluegrass musicians played with Charlie's band, including Lester Flatt,[5] Red Rector,[6] Curly Seckler,[7] Fiddlin' Dale Cole [citation needed] and Ira Louvin.

He continued to play festivals until diagnosed with cancer in 1974; he died at his farm in Reidsville, North Carolina in 1975 and was buried in his family's plot.