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.
Songwriting presents many challenges: how do you block out all of society’s noise to allow some musical inspiration to enter in?…
The arrival of the first IBMA awards ballot is always interesting in one way or another, this year more interesting than…
You’ve no doubt heard of the “bucket list.” Like “show me the money” and other overused phrases, it has its origins…
Have you ever looked at the song titles of a new album and wondered what those songs are about? In some…
Chris is out on tour with the Night Drivers this week, and asked us to re-run this column about bluegrass groupies….
This is just a quick follow-up to last week’s discussion about bluegrass baby names. I had some readers offer some excellent…
There’s a whole industry built around baby names. There are numerous books out listing baby names, their meaning and origin, how…
While tooling down the highway heading to the next gig, road musicians have lots of entertainment sources they never used to…
It’s the first of March, and if warm weather hasn’t hit where you are (not even close where I am), it’s…
The tribute band is nothing new to bluegrass music or to any other genre of music, for that matter. “Beatlemania” was…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
