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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.
Mr. Bluegrass Manners has been away for awhile. First he was dealing with final exams at ETSU where he teaches a…
We in the bluegrass music community have our own vocabulary, like referring to the banjo as “the five,” an instrumental solo…
Late December and January are always the time for countdowns and lists of the top “things” of the past year. You…
I have a New Years tradition: I resolve to quit smoking, then realize I didn’t smoke to begin with. That was…
Merry day-after Christmas. I’m spending the holidays in a somewhat remote area of western Canada, where it was necessary to write…
I hope you’re having a wonderful holiday season so far. Much of traditional Christmas literature, including, I believe, the first chapter…
Do you give holiday gifts to the bluegrass people in your life, like your band members, your agent, your manager, your…
Last week’s millennial bluegrass songs generated a lot of suggestions for additions. Many were good ones, and I’ll include some here….
We love to make fun of millennials; you know, with their selfies of their own wedding proposals, their own baptisms, and…
I’m neck deep in studio work in North Carolina this week, so here’s one that first ran right before Thanksgiving two…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
