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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.
Returning to the stage MC work subject, this is a revised version of the final installment of my series on the…
Way back in the first year of this column I did a series on band management, pretending that I knew something…
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Last week I tried to break on-stage MC work down to basics to make the mission seem less daunting for anyone…
Something that you or your band must eventually face (besides your sound check and your non-existent retirement plan), is that at…
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Since it has been established in the advertising world that if you can identify a niche, you can target it, it…
Last week, after passing along some of the findings in my research into the whereabouts of some familiar characters in bluegrass…
People always seem interested in where music celebrities, or lesser-known one-hit wonder types, have disappeared to. I seem to recall VH-1,…
We’ve all been seeing the ways in which AI technology is already being used to improve our lives, that is before…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
