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The June issue of The Bluegrass Special has been released with the cover story featuring bluegrass singer songwriter Donna Hughes and her album Goodbyes and Butterflies. In other story’s in the Special: Television star and musician, Andy Griffith turned 85 this month and bluegrass band The Grasscals marked that occasion, and last year’s 50th anniversary [...]
This month’s Bluegrass Special features a Bill Monroe Centennial Moment that examines the fortuitous pairing of folk music legend Ralph Rinzler and the father of bluegrass music Bill Monroe. In the early ‘60s folk music legend Ralph Rinzler put his own musical career on hold and assumed the job of managing Bill Monroe, whose career [...]
March Edition Now Online The March of The Bluegrass Special features Sierra Hull in her third major feature in The Bluegrass Special pages in as many years. This 19-year-old girl returns with her second Rounder album, Daybreak. This edition also features a Bill Monroe Centennial Moment; The night in October 1939 when Monroe and his [...]
The November issue of The Bluegrass Special now in Cyberspace. This month Rosanne Cash, Patty Loveless and Maria Muldaur talk at length about their new albums. Reviews this month include a Gospel Set pairing of the Issac’s – Naturally, and the Gaither Vocal Band’s – Reunited. Other articles in this month’s issue include a main [...]
This month Bluegrass Special marks the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival, alongside the other signal events of 1969. Contributing Editor Billy Altman, who attended Woodstock, looks back on that memorable decade-ending summer when the world was first changed by the sight of a man walking on the moon a month before half a million [...]
The July edition of Bluegrass Special is now available on the web. What more could an ostensibly bluegrass publication ask than to have on its cover the queen of bluegrass, Rhonda Vincent? Well, we got her, via cell phone as she was driving from St. Louis to Nashville. And just as the innovation of new modes [...]
The June 2009 issue of Bluegrass Special is now available online at The Bluegrass Special.com This months features an interview with Michael Martin Murphy in which he discusses his long-time commitment to the American farmer and his love of the land. The June issue also features reviews of Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver’s new CD Lonely [...]
Alison Brown – Compass Records Founder Bluegrass Special announces the release of their May 2009 edition. This month features Alison Brown, the banjo virtuoso and founder of Compass Records. Alison is the first woman, and one of only two ever, to win the IBMA’s Banjo Player of the Year Award. This is a special occasion [...]
The BluegrassSpecial.com announces its first first anniversary. This month’s edition features Dailey and Vincent one of bluegrass’s latest and hotest property. Other features this months include Raul Malo, Mark O’Connor, Mickey Clark, and Mickey Raphael on Willie Nelson. Bluegrass Special also festurs reviews of: DVD: Ron Block – A Fresh Look at Bluegrass Banjo Dailey [...]
David McGee and his team at Bluegrass Special that this months e-mag is now available. This month’s Reviews include: Fontaine Brown – Tales From the Fence Line; Mickey Clark – Winding Highways; Pam Gadd – Benefit Of Doubt; Megan Munroe – One More Broken String; Michael Martin Murphey – Buckaroo Blue Grass; Darryl Rhoades – [...]
The February edition of the BluegrassSpecial.com is available from their website. News this month sees a new contributing editor Christopher Hill’s whose writing has appeared in Spin Magazine, the Los Angeles and Chicago Readers, Chicago Magazine, Summit: The Mountain Journal, and other publications. Chris was also a contributing editor for four years at Record Magazine. [...]
This month we’re honored to feature as our cover subject one of the finest songwriters of our time, Hal Ketchum, an in-depth interview spanning his entire career, but with a special focus on his terrific new album, Father Time, another collection of well-crafted songs about love, loss and the burden of dreams, in addition to [...]
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