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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.
I wanted to begin this week by answering some concerns raised in the comments section and elsewhere about some of the…
Let’s start with this: the Highland Travelers are not just a repackaged version of the Boxcars. Though they’ve retained the recently…
When Blue Highway announced yesterday that Justin Moses was joining the band on reso-guitar, a great many folks wondered, “What is…
The last time we ran into dobro meister Phil Leadbetter was at SPBGMA back in February, he looked fully a decade…
When the judges’ votes were tallied in last month’s Yadkin Valley Bluegrass Convention, the top prize in the Bluegrass Band contest went…
Shawn Lane has spent the past quarter century touring with Blue Highway on mandolin and fiddle. His sharp tenor voice is…
On their website, Rotterdam-based Red Herring describe their music as a mixture of “folk roots, Americana, murder ballads, love songs, and kickass…
Bluegrass songstress Dale Ann Bradley was honored this past weekend as a 2018 inductee into the Kentucky Music Hall Of Fame….
Blue Highway has announced a personnel change, with Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist Justin Moses stepping in on reso-guitar, replacing Gaven Largent who is…
A new collection of John Hartford’s music, John Hartford’s Mammoth Collection of Fiddle Tunes, is set for release on June 4 from…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
