Posted on October 28, 2005, by etrigan in Reviews.

One of my youngest multi-sense memories of music is Johnny Cash’s Orange Blossom Special — an orange 8 track that was always somewhere in the truck when we were on the road for camping trips and I’ve known the song since I was young enough to identify a piece of music. So, it is hard for me to be objective about a documentary that covers the back-story of the song but The Special isn’t blowing smoke when they argue this is the most well-known bluegrass tune and has been for nearly 60 years. Seeing it performed and discussed by the likes of the McCoury family, Vassar Clemens, The String Cheese Incident and Johnny Cash reveals the strong personal connection that musicians, and audiences through them, have to this amazing song. If you are willing to go through the hassle you can purchase this documentary for $40 on DVD from info@nlprod.com and they’ll tell you how to snail mail them a check (which seems ridiculous to me that they can put togethor a professional documentary, but they can’t hire a decent web guy to set up a online order system.)