Your authoritative and definitive news source for all things bluegrass, updated six days a week, with airplay charts, events directory, interviews, & puzzles.
Focus in on artists who play bluegrass music from all over the world
The latest in bluegrass music releases, and reviews of both music and other items
What’s happening at shows and festivals you might want to see
What’s going on in the professional bluegrass world around us
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Indoor or outdoor, see single day events and concert series here.
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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.
Chris Jones blow the lid off deep conspiracies in bluegrass music, from IBMA to Flatt & Scruggs, in this explosive video.
Last week, I gave all publicists and artists who write their own bios in third person fair warning that in addition…
Several years ago I wrote a column about the ceremonial retirement of adjectives at the IBMA World of Bluegrass. This is…
When it rains email scams, it pours. The same is true for bogus voice mails, fake text messages, and phony faxes…
Last December, we took a look at some of the ways that bluegrass musicians’ lofty pandemic goals had run smack into…
Last week we discussed movie taglines, those one or two sentence teasers meant to entice us to rush out (or in)…
Before a new movie rolls out, motion picture studios all have the challenging task of boiling down each release into a…
While trying to put songs together for the annual Mother’s Day edition of my classic bluegrass show on SiriusXM known as…
He’s back! Mr. Bluegrass Manners appears to be thriving well in the pandemic environment, or at least thriving as well as…
Greetings from the studio! My band and I are in the studio all this week and time has run short, what…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
