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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.
Brad Davis called me the other afternoon just to say hi, but as always I asked him what he had been…
IBMA has been on our minds, and on this blog a lot recently. Most of that due to the recent World…
For your Sunday reading pleasure I’ve gathered up a couple links to articles that might be of interest. Here they are…
The Washington Post had a short piece about Chris Thile’s new CD, How To Grow A Woman From The Ground, in…
Mandolin Cafe is directing attention to a post in their forum, that was started last September. The post contains a whole…
Listen now: [http://media.libsyn.com/media/thegrasscast/ep48_frank_solivan_ii.mp3] (IE users click to activate) This episode of The GrassCast features an interview with Frank Solivan II. Frank…
I just got a note from my friends over at Pantheon Guitars that they have built their 4,000th guitar in the…
I posted last week about a video that our pal Wichita Rutherford put up as a podcast (and in his blog)….
The recent IBMA Awards Show in Nashville resulted in some controversy surrounding the performance of some patriotic material performed by the…
GAC was present at IBMA’s World of Bluegrass last month taping interviews that will begin running this week on Edge of…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music