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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What’s going on in the professional bluegrass world around us
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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.
The first ballot for the IBMA awards has gone out. Did you receive a “for your consideration” mass e-mail from me…
Last week here, we discussed what careers might be appropriate for a professional bluegrass musician who has taken the daring and…
Is there possible gainful employment after being a professional bluegrass musician most of your life? I realize it’s a question that…
Even if I’ve seemed dazed and/or confused by the origins of some of the songs we sing, I was nonetheless thrilled…
Though I respect people who chose this profession, I’m glad I never became an ethnomusicologist. For one thing, it’s a non-German…
It seems like so long ago now, back before the time change, even, that I wrote a little article here on…
Last week we reran a column of mine about aggressive song-pitching, and I got this email: Hi Chris, I’m a songwriter…
I’m deep in recording studio land in North Carolina this week,. That’s a good thing, but it has left me little…
I had promised to bring up the thorny issue of the “CD trade” this week, but I’m sorry to say that…
Last week in this space I discussed various counterintuitive business ideas, both good and bad, from giving music away, to touring…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
