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These charts are compiled weekly from actual airplay reported by over 50 independent contributing Bluegrass DJ’s. Only songs less than 18 months from date of original release appear here.
A weekly look at the most played songs of the week on radio.
A monthly aggregate of the most played bluegrass songs of the month on radio.
Weekly radio favorites focusing on the intersection between progressive bluegrass & Americana.
Weekly rundown of the most played bluegrass gospel tracks on radio.
One of the words people use in describing bluegrass is integrity. Even accounting for a few posers, let’s say on the…
This week’s guest trivia master is Roland White, born Roland LeBlanc in Madawasca, Maine. The bluegrass Roland is not to be…
We’re two years into the sesquicentennial of the Civil War and, I don’t know about you, but it seems to me…
Once when asked how he managed to write three columns a week, the conservative commentator William F. Buckley replied that the…
Hello? Anybody out there who’s not in Nashville this week? Janet and I just left for World of Bluegrass 2013. We…
With less than a week to go before IBMA’s World of Bluegrass, I believe I have evidence of a conspiracy so…
This week’s trivia master is Peter “Pete Wernick” Wernick, who as Dr. Banjo makes house calls from his Niwot, CO home….
This is the last of a four-part series on practicing. I hope you enjoyed the thoughts of Ron Block, Bryan Sutton,…
I’ve had a few emails about this series on practicing from people saying they have started spending time with their instrument…
Judging from the mail I got this week, it seems that people like to read about practicing about as much as…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
