Bluegrass Special | October 2009

*CHARLIE DANIELS is revving up for his annual Christmas For Kids concert in November; details here.

*BARBARA MANDRELL, who is still cool especially now that country is cool, is inducted in the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame.

*THE HAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA wowed the crowd at its Sept. 12 one-night-only special engagement in Atlanta, and it felt so good to group founder DARRYL RHOADES that he’s thinking of doing it again, and again, and again. Rhoades gives us the inside, exclusive account of what went down and rounds up all the usual suspects for the credit they deserve.

*We note, too, with sadness, the passing of Pulitzer Prize winning publisher/editor WALTER HORACE CARTER, who stood up against the Ku Klux Klan in print in the early ‘50s and made the world a better place.

Less than a week following Carter’s death, we lost WILMA COZART FINE, one of the pioneering female record producers, whose work on Mercury’s “Living Presence” series in the ‘50s and ‘60s set a standard for excellence and innovation in audio recording technology that has accrued to the great benefit of music fans everywhere. Like Walter Horace Carter, she too, in her own way, made the world a better place by refusing to let great music be heard in the home with any less grandeur than it was heard in the concert hall.

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