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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.
On May 19, Rodney Dillard, the lone surviving original member of The Dillards, who introduced bluegrass music, Ozark style, to America…
When thinking of Larry Sparks, the one word that comes to mind is soul. It’s a word that not only sums…
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…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
