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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.
Bobby Hicks with a fiddle he bought from Birch Monroe – photo © Lincoln Hensley Fiddler Bobby Hicks, surely among the…
Jake Workman (lead guitarist with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder) and his wife, Rebekah, also a talented bluegrass musician, welcomed their…
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder at the Tony Rice Memorial Music Fest – photo © G. Nicholas Hancock History repeated itself…
J.D. Crowe & The New South, often best known to bluegrass lovers by its catalog number, Rounder 0044, has been chosen…
No… that’s not a stigmata on Russ Carson’s right hand. The crackerjack banjo picker with Ricky Skaggs is just off a…
Bluegrass super picker and bandleader Clay Hess has a new single to share this week, his cut of the Merle Travis…
Jake Workman with Ricky Skaggs at the 2023 Bloomin’ Bluegrass Festival – photo by Nate Dalzell Jake Workman, the superb flatpick…
OK… we’ve held off as long as we could, but the time of bluegrass Christmas music is upon us. We know…
Brian Smith, Brooke Aldridge, Darin Aldridge, and Jerry Salley at the 2023 AGM Awards Darin & Brooke Aldridge were honored to…
There have been plenty of events in bluegrass music history that live on as legendary, even magical, moments when the genre…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
