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.
Do yourself a favor. No matter what you think of jam bands, Americana and other genres that reside at the edges…
Four years ago, just before her 40th birthday, Kelly’s voice gave out near the end of a weekly gig with her…
Ron Murphy, whose rock-solid bass playing anchored the Cincinnati-area band Muddy River for many years, died this morning, one day short…
Another year, and Hazel Dickens is still not a member of the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame. This is a slight…
There’s a school of thought that says you can’t teach songwriting. Folks can either write lyrics and compose interesting melodies, or…
The arrival of a new Doyle Lawson CD in the mailbox is cause for joy. Even before the plastic wrapper is…
So much of Tim Stafford’s identity is wrapped up in Blue Highway, his musical home for the last two decades. He’s…
Jon Weisberger knows a thing or two about songwriting—he was IBMA’s first songwriter of the year in 2012. And he knows…
Talented performers are leaving the music business because U.S. copyright provisions don’t allow them to make an adequate living, country music…
Lonnie Hamer wasn’t famous, but perhaps he should have been. He didn’t excel on stage or in the studio, but the…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
