Your authoritative and definitive news source for all things bluegrass, updated six days a week, with airplay charts, events directory, interviews, & puzzles.
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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.
David and Marshall with Johnson Mountain Boys in London (1987) – photo by Richard Thompson and at the Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival…
The newest performers inducted into IBMA’s Bluegrass Hall of Fame finally and definitively answered the big question in bluegrass. The question:…
David McLaughlin, Marshall Wilborn, and Dudley Connell with the Johnson Mountain Boys at Nacogdoches Bluegrass Festival in Texas (July 4, 1987)…
Bluegrass fans, hold on to your seats – if you can get one – the Johnson Mountain Boys are back! (Almost,…
We’ve carved the turkey. We’ve packed up the leftovers, and got them back out fifteen minutes later to finish off. We’ve…
On This Day …. On July 14, 1956, Richard Underwood was born in Seabrook, Maryland. The 57 year old is best…
This week we are going to remember the life and times of America’s Blue Yodeler, the Singing Brakeman, and the Father…
Breaking news from our pal Katy Daley at WAMU’s Bluegrass Country… In an on-air discussion this morning with Dudley Connell about…
Back in February, WAMU’s Bluegrass Country ran an extended interview with Dudley Connell. The piece ran 3 hours, and the response…
Over this past weekend, WAMU’s Bluegrass Country ran the first 3 hours of the lengthy interviews they are conducting with Dudley…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
