Bluegrass Unlimited 1974 Special Program Edition

34 pages

Staple-bound. Some shelf wear and age. A scuff with 2 tiny chips on outside edges of front cover. Creased upper outside corner with some waviness and discoloration to back cover. No markings found. Photos are of the actual item for sale and show a sample of pages.

This issue offers a period look at bluegrass music, its performers, instruments, and developing history. Features include Bob Artis’s continuing “Bluegrass Music” series, with this installment tracing Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys through the mid-1940s and the arrival of the lineup associated with the emerging bluegrass sound; practical guidance on banjo tone rings and instrument setup; and George Gruhn’s discussion of original versus reproduction bluegrass instruments. Photographs, drawings, contemporary advertisements, and references to performers including Ralph Stanley, the Country Gentlemen, Keith Whitley and Rick Skaggs, the Bluegrass 45, and the Osborne Brothers add to its value as a collectible record of the bluegrass community and music trade of its era.

Includes:

• 1974 Festival Schedule
• Gibson Banjo Dates of Manufacture
• Strings 'N Things : Bluegrass Instruments - Original vs Reproduction
• Train The Picking Hand To Arch & Bridge For Three Finger Picking
• An Instant Music Stand