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.
Last week I published a list of topics for bluegrass music camp elective classes that, based on trial and unmistakable error,…
In last week’s discussion of bluegrass music camps, I focused primarily on the students, and what they can expect at events…
Now that March is upon us, it’s only natural to think ahead to the end of winter (if you got any…
I have always loved a good conspiracy theory. I believe almost all of them, too, whether they become discredited in the…
I’ve had time to analyze the reaction to my disclaimer published here last week, the one that attempted to warn that…
Recently it has come to my attention that some readers of this column are actually taking it seriously. This concerns me,…
Quite some time ago (I think it was just after the breakup of Flatt & Scruggs and the Beatles) I made…
I’ve devoted the previous several columns to the subject of band self-management. There won’t be many more, I promise, because let’s…
This has turned into a lengthy series on bluegrass band self-management, which is fitting because we live in a do-it-yourself era,…
Somewhere deep in my list of items that are on a new bluegrass band’s to-do list was this little, seemingly trivial…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
