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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.
What can you get for the flatpicker who has everything? Well… if the soon-to-be-concluded Kickstarter campaign for The Firefly Pick is…
Jesse McReynolds, mandolin pioneer and bluegrass songwriter par excellence, is at home and wearing a heart monitor after being diagnosed recently…
Perhaps the biggest change for World of Bluegrass in Raleigh for 2013 is the city’s scheduling of a major downtown street…
The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced the writers invited to showcase new songs during the 2013 World of Bluegrass Convention…
Tim Carter, the banjo pickin’ half of The Carter Brothers, is currently on tour with an all star band in support…
Opening disclaimer: I’ve known Dan Miller for the past 20 years, ever since he moved east from California to southwest Virginia…
We’ve written before about the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation and their instrument lending program for young pickers, Play It Forward. Bluegrass students…
We all know about bluegrass, and have become accustomed more recently to jamgrass. But what about trashgrass? Well that’s what Cincinnati’s…
Compass Records has put together a video sneak-peek at Love Has Wheels, their upcoming album for The Bankesters. It gives a…
Special project bands are sprouting all around bluegrass this year. The Masters of Bluegrass have been struttin’ it old school with…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music