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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.
Mandolinist Mark Stoffel is the focus of the latest single released by Mountain Home Music. The German-born musician has been a…
Kody Norris Show at the Spring ’23 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival – photo © Frank Baker If it’s May, it must be…
This is the third in a series on stage-show MC work. In the previous installment, I tried to answer a few…
Following a three year hiatus, the Mountain City Fiddlers’ Convention is returning to east Tennessee, with local boy made good Kody…
Jan Purat is a Berkeley-based fiddler, composer, and arranger who has played in many popular Bay Area bands before rising to…
Mountain Fever Records has a new single this weekend for Nashville banjo phenom, Cory Walker. It’s a real old timer written…
David Luttrell with Karl Smakula, who ended up with his stolen banjo Mississippi banjoist David Luttrell’s original pre-war Gibson RB-00 banjo…
Ryan Paisley, son of bluegrass icon Danny Paisley, and mandolinist in his dad’s band, The Southern Grass, has just been appointed…
Cedar Creek Bluegrass at the Mid-Michigan Bluegrass and Folk Jam Series – photo © Bill Warren The Woldumar Nature Center in…
Mike Mitchell’s unfettered affection for bluegrass has always been apparent. As as a singer, fiddler, viola player, and instructor, his dedication…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
