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 have an annual(ish) tradition here, which is to compile some of bluegrass music’s most uninteresting stories of the past year,…
Last week we unveiled some of the bluegrass laws contained in recently discovered ancient scrolls from 1978. So as not overwhelm…
Last week there was a rerun of my bluegrass rules column, which made for an appropriate setup for this one, which…
“I like the rules. I think you know how I feel about that.” – Fake Santa in Santa Clause 2 In…
As promised last week, it’s time for what used to be referred to as our “annual new product review.” I called…
There will be an upcoming column reviewing the best new bluegrass-related products of the past year, but at the moment I’m…
Happy New Year! Was one of your resolutions to become more knowledgable about bluegrass music? Well, I’m afraid I’ll be no…
Happy post-Christmas/pre-NewYear. I’m spending the holidays in a somewhat remote area of western Canada, where it was necessary to write and…
I want to wish you a very merry Christmas coming up this weekend. This is the long-awaited (by almost no one)…
You can consider this a companion piece to John Lawless’ recent article about artificial intelligence and Richard Melling’s use of the…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
