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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.
When playing a show in Chicago recently, I stopped to eat at a Greek restaurant on the northwest side of the…
The 2026 Winter Olympic Games got me thinking about bluegrass “athletic” competitions, and brought back a memory of an IBMA World…
It happens every four years now: we all see a lot of curling on television and people tend to be baffled…
Mr. Bluegrass Manners is back at last. I was actually starting to worry about him. It turns out after the success…
Just a note that this column was written well before the advent of AI, and to clarify again, I’m referring to…
Are you possibly old enough to remember cigarette advertising on TV and radio? If so, you probably also still refer to…
As you may have noticed, we live in a world of constantly evolving language. The prevalence of texting has certainly been…
Happy Bluegrass New Year! The first column of the year is almost always devoted to the annual Bluegrass Quiz. This is…
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…
Last year around this time, we ran a rerun of my reimagined Stave Two of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, in…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
