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.
We mentioned the new Rural Rhythm radio sampler last week in our post about their upcoming bluegrass CD for Michael Martin…
Shawn Lane is the featured vocalist on a new single release, but it’s not from Blue Highway. It’s not from a…
Our own intrepid correspondent, Richard Thompson [bluegrassmercury], spent a week in Nashville in early October, having traveled from the UK to…
Just six months after announcing his retirement from the band this past spring, fiddler Alan Johnson is back with Doyle Lawson…
I don’t know if anyone has noticed, but YouTube has begun allowing not only high(er) definition video, but also is now…
The Prague Post ran an article yesterday about the popularity of bluegrass music on the European Continent. The hook for the…
Jack Hatfield is set to release his latest book for 5 string banjo on December 15. Backup Techniques On The Five-String…
Dailey & Vincent will make a stop this afternoon (12/5) in Spindale, NC to do a live set on the air…
Only in Milwaukee could you hear Mud River Lee and the Bluegrass Orchestra, until now. Carey Borth of Partywave Films has…
Barbara Meyer-Spidell of Mud River Lee & The Bluegrass Orchestra spearheaded a Video Series while embarking on a 12 week jaunt…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
