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.
Shortly after the announcements of the IBMA Awards nominations, an important discussion was started here in Bluegrass Today about the award…
One of the many creative challenges facing songwriters (besides paying this month’s utility bill) is the naming of a new song….
This column from Chris Jones is a reprise of one from March 2012 – with a new introductory paragraph. Some time…
Last week, after passing along some of the findings in my research into the whereabouts of some familiar characters in bluegrass…
People always seem interested in where music celebrities, or lesser-known one-hit wonder types, have disappeared to. I seem to recall VH-1,…
This marks the first time I’ve ever composed one of these on a smart phone (my manual typewriter is in the…
Judging by the hate mail, the slashed tires, and the kidnapping of my goldfish, I’d say last week’s column was a…
This was the column I was hoping to get someone else to write for me. It was the one that was…
This is the third in a series on stage-show MC work. In the previous installment, I tried to answer a few…
Last week I tried to break on-stage MC work down to basics to make the mission seem less daunting for anyone…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
