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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.
CMH Records has another classic recording set for digital re-issue this week, Josh Graves’ 1977 album Same Old Blues. Graves, or…
Reso guitar master Rob Ickes has announced a second video course where he teaches classic Josh Graves solos from the days…
“It’s been tough for all of us entertainers,” began Billy Troy, son of famed reso-guitarist, Josh Graves. The past year was…
Attention reso slidesters! Here’s a great opportunity to go deep inside and study some of the foundational solos that established the…
For a limited period only the University of Illinois Press (UIP) is making available in an E-book format three top quality…
Bluegrass Bluesman: A Memoir, the autobiography of Josh Graves (edited by Fred Bartenstein) has been awarded a Certificate of Merit by…
July 22, 2013 marked the official release date for Making History with The Pioneers of Bluegrass, a documentary film 11 years…
Our guest smarty pants this week has been called the Father of Bluegrass History—okay, I just called him that, but it’s…
I spent yesterday with Josh Graves by reading Bluegrass Bluesman: Josh Graves A Memoir, a collection of transcribed interviews given in…
Thursday, September 27 is the 85th anniversary of Josh Graves’s birth in Tellico Plains, Monroe County, TN. To mark the occasion…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music