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Bluegrass Unlimited
Editor and General ManagerDan Miller
Former editorsPeter V. Kuykendall
CategoriesBluegrass and Old-time music
Frequencymonthly
Circulation11,330 (2018)
FounderPete Kuykendall, Gary Henderson, Dick Freeland, Dick Spottswood, and Dianne and Vince Sims[1]
Founded1966
First issueJuly 1966 (1966-07)[2]
CompanyBluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum
CountryUnited States of America
Based inOwensboro, Kentucky
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.bluegrassmusic.com
ISSN0006-5137
OCLC1788602

Bluegrass Unlimited is a monthly music magazine "dedicated to the furtherance of bluegrass and old-time musicians, devotees and associates."[3] First published in 1966, as of 2008 the magazine had a circulation of more than 25,000 copies.[citation needed] Bluegrass Unlimited is a founding member of the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA).[4]

Folklorist and music scholar Neil V. Rosenberg, in Bluegrass: A History, sets out the history of Bluegrass Unlimited as the oldest of the nationally distributed bluegrass magazines.[5] The magazine launched, in 1966, in a typed, mimeographed 7– x 8½–inch booklet-like format[6] with a hand drawn logo, and was available for US$3 (equivalent to $29.77 in 2025) per year.[7] In the fall of 1970, the magazine moved from an informal to a full-time operation with new publishers Pete and Marion Kuykendall upgrading it to a larger, standard format on glossy paper.[8] The magazine is full-color and printed on high-speed web offset presses.[3]

Music historian Bill C. Malone has written that Bluegrass Unlimited magazine was initially devoted primarily to bluegrass music in the US and abroad with occasional reference to old time country music.[9][dead link] It now reports information on every phase of bluegrass and old-time music - biographical articles, discographies, record and book reviews, concert and festival dates, interviews, classified ads, and songs.[9]

David Freeman, owner of Rebel Records and County Records, said: "When the magazine started publishing, bluegrass was pretty much at a low point. The magazine spread the word and highlighted the artistic aspect of the music, which helped to bring it out of the bars where it was in the 1950s."[10]

In 2020, the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum acquired Bluegrass Unlimited.[11]

References

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  1. ^ International Bluegrass Music Museum Inductee "Peter V. Kuykendall" by Steve Spence. Accessed 2011-09-15.
  2. ^ Rosenberg, Neil. Bluegrass: A History. p.224
  3. ^ a b BU advertising rate card Accessed 2011-09-18.
  4. ^ Bluegrass Unlimited website "About" page. Accessed 2011-09-19.
  5. ^ Rosenberg, Neil, Bluegrass: A History, pp. 224-227, 263, 278, 280, 285, 299, 315, 329, 334, 344, 354, 362 and 367
  6. ^ Rosenberg, Neil. Bluegrass: A History. p.285
  7. ^ Rosenberg, Neil. Bluegrass: A History. p.225
  8. ^ Rosenberg, Neil. Bluegrass: A History. p.288
  9. ^ a b Malone, Bill C., Country Music USA, University of Texas Press (2002) ISBN 0-292-75262-8. p. 542
  10. ^ Sprague, Connie. November 1, 1996. "Bluegrass Ambassador: Magazine Publisher Has Helped Nourish the Music for 30 Years," The Fauquier Citizen. (at IBMM)
  11. ^ "Bluegrass Hall of Fame to publish Bluegrass Unlimited magazine". August 4, 2020.
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