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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.
In 2011 Bean Blossom historian Thomas A. Adler gave a presentation at the International Country Music Conference in Nashville, during which…
We just heard some wonderful news from Tom Adler about a well-deserved honor coming later this year for J.D. Crowe. “I’m…
Tom Adler, author of Bean Blossom, last year’s University of Illinois Press history of Bill Monroe’s bluegrass festivals and the Brown…
One of the classic Bill Monroe songs of all time is Footprints in the Snow. Despite the fact that Bill claimed…
Bean Blossom, that place of many legends that has attracted bluegrass fans from so many territories world-wide, that has two internationally-distributed…
Last week we announced the publication of the book Bean Blossom – The Brown County Jamboree and Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Festivals,…
Tom Adler, former executive director of the International Bluegrass Music Museum, and a noted bluegrass folklorist and radio host, has released…
“Bean Blossom, Indiana — near Brown County State Park and the artist-colony town of Nashville, Indiana — is home to the…
Sad news to share just before Christmas… We are working on a more complete remembrance of this remarkable woman, but will…
From October 1, 2010 through to the end of September 2011, we will, each day, celebrate the life of Bill Monroe…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
