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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The latest in bluegrass music releases, and reviews of both music and other items
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What’s going on in the professional bluegrass world around us
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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.
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Happy Thanksgiving! This week we celebrate something-or-other that happened on Plymouth Rock in such-and-such a year (and they say history isn’t…
We live in a time of wholesome claims being made about food products. We see words like “organic,” “fair trade,” and…
Occasionally in this column we’ve decided to do song title mashups, blending some of our bluegrass standards with titles of other…
We sometimes exaggerate in bluegrass music as a way of compensating for the fact that we aren’t generally playing music for…
Mr. Bluegrass Manners is back! I requested that he take some questions this week, while I’m still on a European tour,…
In this general feeling of turning a corner, seeing light at the end of the tunnel, and whatever other hopeful clichés,…
The recent IBMA awards show received some sharp criticism in some quarters, one of those quarters being right here in Bluegrass…
Whenever you search something or ask a question of the Almighty Internet gods (whose names are Pete and Roscoe) on your…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
