[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 $28.17 in 2023) 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.
U.S. subscription rate is $25.00 per year[9] and the magazine is full-color and printed on high-speed web offset presses.
[10] It is now a treasure trove of 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.
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.