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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.

Our September 2026 issue focuses on bluegrass in New England, and Roger grew up playing bluegrass from a young age.

Actually, I just got a text from while we've been recording here from Adam.

Mackintosh, the director of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, and he was thanking us for interviewing Sarah DeRose on our last episode.

I thought that was kind of ironic that he texted while we were recording.

Yeah, that's great, man.

I've kind

of been to some things like this.

I mean, years ago, I went to the Bill Monroe School of Mandolin at the Bluegrass Hall of Fame.

And it was a weekend-long thing like that.

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.

Our September 2026 issue focuses on bluegrass in New England and Dick grew up playing bluegrass in his family's band in Maine.

That's what I say with the...

Bluegrass Hall of Fame and Country Music Highway here with Loretto Inn and Crystal Gale.

You know, there's a lot of things, wood songs.

There's a lot of good, cool music stuff here, just right here in central Kentucky, but throughout the state.

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.

Our September 2026 issue focuses on bluegrass in New England, and when Fred was in college at Harvard starting in 1969, he co-founded the first Bluegrass Music Association in Boston.

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 Jim Rooney about the early days of bluegrass in New England.

Jim was involved in the bluegrass music scene in Boston starting in the 1950s and was a motor force in helping to popularize bluegrass and folk music in New England.

And Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass music, he was deeply influenced by a black blues singer in his neighborhood in Rosene, Kentucky, named Arnold Schultz.

Arnold died in 1931, but this year he's getting inducted into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame because he is a deep part of where bluegrass comes from as well.

So the Steel Drivers, they have had a soulful southern sound since they started out.

The architect of the band, the late Mike Henderson, who, along with original band member Chris Stapleton, wrote a ton of early Steel Drivers songs.