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.
This article is a contribution from Bruce Winges, recently retired as Editor of the Akron Beacon Journal. Are you 45 years…
This Stephen Mougin profile is a contribution from Kim Detwiller Burton with Team Strategies. Since moving to Nashville almost two decades…
Editor’s note…This article is a contribution from Harold Smith, longtime mandolinist for East Virginia, a very popular bluegrass group from the…
This detailed remembrance of the Father of Bluegrass is a contribution from Monte Warden. During the late 1980s, Warden got to…
This remembrance of Ron Vigue is a contribution from Cheri Russo, Community Engagement Manager for WOUB Public Media in Athens, OH. WOUB is…
The desire among pickers to get together and play is not confined to bluegrass musicians, though the portable and non-electric aspect…
Jack Tottle at The Pickin’ Porch in Bristol, TN (6/5/13) – photo by Dan Krill This entertaining yarn is a contribution…
Kentucky bluegrass singer and songwriter Dale Pyatt passed away on April 15 in hospice care in Richmond, KY. He was 59…
Jack Tottle (far right) with friends picking on his porch on the Big Island Chris Wejrowski, Anne Pontius, Jim Blue, Phyllis…
For more than three decades, singer-songwriter Daryl Mosley has applied his warm-as-country-sunshine voice and thoughtful lyrics to a wealth of memorable…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
