Musician (magazine)

Musician was a monthly magazine that covered news and information about American popular music.

First called Music America, it was founded in 1976 by Sam Holdsworth and Gordon Baird.

It was not intended as a fan magazine, but as a publication about the musician's craft, and as a result, it earned it the respect of people in the music business.

[2] As Holdsworth told an interviewer in 2003, the magazine "created a level of trust that made the musicians feel they were talking with peers".

[4][5] Holdsworth and Baird sold it in January 1981 to the company that owned Billboard magazine.