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.
We got this note from Ivan Rosenberg, a respected resonator guitarist and clawhammer banjo player in the Pacific Northwest. He is…
We just received this report from our friend Lilly Pavlak. The Czech bluegrass community has lost one of its greatest personalities…
This just in from Greg Cahill, founder and fearless leader of Special Consensus… Justin Carbone is leaving the band at the…
Ace banjo player Jake Schepps sent along this fascinating report from his recent trip to Borneo with the Jeff and Vida…
We have written in the past about Kate Lee, a talented young singer, fiddler and songwriter from New York. Kate has…
We just heard back from James Alan Shelton, guitarist and road manager with Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys, about…
Penny Parsons passed along this word about one of the legends from the early days of bluegrass music. Penny is a…
Nancy Cardwell spent a few days last month at the annual Silver Dollar City’s Bluegrass & Barbecue Festival in Branson, MO…
Our friend Lilly Pavlak wrote from Switzerland to share news of the passing of Waldemar Matu?°ka, a popular Czech country and…
We received a note from Emily Epley, Executive Director of Destination Cleveland County, with an update on the Earl Scruggs Center,…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music