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.
I’ve noticed within the entertainment industry a growing interest in the back stories of the villains of some of our legends,…
The pandemic is even taking its toll on Mr. Bluegrass Manners. The last time I saw him, he was playing the…
In this general feeling of turning a corner, seeing light at the end of the tunnel, and whatever other hopeful clichés,…
I do my best to keep up with the latest goings on in Bluegrass Today, from recent births, deaths, new releases,…
Happy New Year! I believe I said that last week, but I figure if I say it often enough it has…
This will be extremely short, just as I hope and pray the end of 2020 is. I was going to list…
It’s well known among those who keep track of obscure Christmas traditions (almost no one), that once you do something, anything,…
Just after the 2020 presidential election was called (the first time), I wrote a column here about how we’d all need…
Bypassing Christmas for the moment (“and so, as Tiny Tim observed . . .”), we are approaching the time for year-end…
Last year around this time, I offered up some potential Hallmark Christmas movie plots with a bluegrass element, because, you know,…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
