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.
A longtime friend of mine in Austin, TX, mandolinist Paul Glasse, recently posted in social media about his professor dad having…
I realized that after last week’s bro-country, four-writer co-writing session produced that moving alternate version of White Dove (I didn’t say…
Co-writing is definitely the mode of Music Row. We have a great co-writing tradition in bluegrass music, too, like the songs…
Mr. Bluegrass Manners is back! He needed some recovery time after IBMA World of Bluegrass. He’s now been through his patented…
What else is new: I managed to get sick after IBMA World of Bluegrass. I know my story is not an…
I wrote this song last night in about five minutes, and it probably shows. It was the late night result of…
You may think of people who have chosen bluegrass music as a profession as fearless types who proceed boldly into the…
Greetings from Scotland, after just concluding our tour of Ireland. It seems that every year someone somewhere is predicting the end…
You’ll find that if you’re in the bluegrass music business for any length of time that things can and will occasionally…
Last week’s rerun of one of my bluegrass haiku columns was meant to serve as a handy setup for some new…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
