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.
Well, it’s all over but the tux-rental (or overalls-rental, depending on your awards show dressing style). The 2012 IBMA Awards nominees…
The Night Drivers and I just concluded the Minnesota Bluegrass and Old Time Music Association’s annual pre-festival Bluegrass Jam Camp, which…
The past year has been a year of bluegrass mourning, as we’ve said goodbye to some of the music’s great pioneers…
I’ve become very disillusioned with the zodiac, I have to admit. First there were the overly general daily horoscopes: “Make sound…
After last week’s column, I was inundated with requests for more uninteresting stories from the world of bluegrass, or any other…
While in England recently, I was looking through the local newspaper and came across the headline “County gets new non-emergency number.”…
Bluegrass musicians, and musical artists in general, often fall into a category of people who have a hard time with the…
Jim Lauderdale (I call him “Jim”) does a characteristically hilarious name-dropping bit on stage, which often involves the names of semi-famous…
It’s been a whirlwind couple of weeks that saw The Night Drivers and me going from Bean Blossom, Indiana to Huck…
I realize this probably dates me, but I’m not a very good texter. I do have what is, technically speaking, a…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
