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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.
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…
I hope the holiday season has treated you well, that the relatives who gave you that sweater that was two sizes…
Several weeks ago, I compiled a list of things that a newly-formed bluegrass band needs to do to get off the…
We’re in the midst of a series on band self-management, and one of the more difficult—and for some, tedious—jobs facing a…
Having made the mistake of starting on the touchy subject of band personnel changes, their motives, methods, and possible prevention, I…
In the previous column, I attempted to put the important steps any new band has to take into some kind of…
Now that we’ve thoroughly exhausted the subject of band names, and you’ve arrived at your own, whether it be “Sausage: A…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
