Bluegrass Unlimited

Red Camels, for those of you who don't know, is a vintage clothing brand known for their overalls.

Their debut album spent three months at number one on the Bluegrass Unlimited album chart.

Lead singer Heather Berry Mabe has won the IBMA Momentum Vocalist of the Year, and last year they received the IBMA's New Artist of the Year Award.

They take an eclectic approach, blending traditional bluegrass and classic country with a decidedly modern take.

the show this week with a Grammy-nominated bluegrass band that has been together for over 10 years now.

They've been named the IBMA's Entertainer of the Year and have been nominated for that award five times.

Bluegrass Unlimited described them as progressively traditional, and they refer to their music as authentic bluegrass.

They began as a house band at a distillery in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

So I, there I was in this insular little thing and, but reading the Pete Wernick book, it talked about bluegrass festivals, it talked about this.

And then it also talked about a magazine called Bluegrass Unlimited, which I thought, "Well, I'll subscribe." So I subscribed to that.

Then I started seeing, oh, there's a bluegrass festival in Norco, which was an hour and a half away.

And there's another bluegrass festival up north, and there's...

[upbeat bluegrass music] Hello, and welcome to the Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine weekly bluegrass music podcast.

Bluegrass Unlimited is a monthly publication of the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum, located in Owensboro, Kentucky.

Learn more at bluegrasshall.org. I'm your podcast host, Dan Miller.

This week, I'm talking with another New England bluegrass musician, dobro player Roger Williams.

He is one of New England's first dobro players, and he tells us all about the early days of bluegrass in New England.

I hope you enjoy the Roger Williams podcast.

Hello, Roger, and welcome to the Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine podcast.

Hey, Dan.

Yep.

But we're talking about the Bluegrass Unlimited magazine, and it is Bronwyn Keith Hines on the cover of this month's issue.

And so some great information.

I happen to have it right here.

Yeah.

That's cool.

Well, that's just some of the cool information that you can learn from Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine.

So you need to subscribe today and get yourself on the list so you can start getting all that great information as well.

Hello and welcome to the Bluegrass Unlimited magazine weekly bluegrass music podcast.

Bluegrass Unlimited is a monthly publication of the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum located in Owensboro, Kentucky.

Learn more at bluegrasshall.org. I'm your podcast host Dan Miller.

This week I'm talking with Dick Bowden.

He tells us all about the bluegrass music scene in Maine from its earliest days.

I hope you enjoy the Dick Bowden podcast.

Hello Dick and welcome to the Bluegrass Unlimited magazine podcast.

Thank you, Dan.

I discovered it on the radio.

I started getting Bluegrass Unlimited magazine, which was published right up the road from where I grew up.

And they had all these listings of where everybody was playing.

I'm like, well, good grief, the country gentlemen are playing it.

Hello and welcome to the Bluegrass Unlimited magazine weekly bluegrass music podcast.

Bluegrass Unlimited is a monthly publication of the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame and Museum located in Owensboro, Kentucky.

Learn more at bluegrasshall.org. I'm your podcast host Dan Miller.

This week I'm talking with Fred Bartenstein about his many contributions to bluegrass music over the years, starting in the 1960s with his work with Carlton Haney's Music Festivals and Events and the Mule Skinner News.

So I'll also talk to Fred about those Boston years.

I hope you enjoy the Fred Bartenstein podcast.

Hello, Fred, and welcome to the Bluegrass Unlimited magazine podcast.

It's great to be here, Dan.

That's one of the things I did.

I wrote articles on different people for Bluegrass Unlimited magazine.

And I did an article on a band that Wayne Taylor was in.

So I went to see him with that band.

There was a Banjo Newsletter magazine.

There was Fretz magazine, Bluegrass Unlimited magazine.

And I would see these things, read about these mythical places like the Station Inn and And guys like Sam Bush and Bela Fleck and Jerry Douglas, you know, playing shows.

And the Nashville Network TV show, you know, TV Network was on.