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.
In addition to our 2009 Bluegrass Blog Awards Poll, our friend Ted Lehmann has his own IBMA Awards coverage on his…
Thanks to Murphy Henry, who sent along the details about funeral arrangements for Jim Steptoe, former banjo player with Patent Pending,…
How To Grow A Band is the title of a new film, currently in production, that chronicles the life and times…
Last week’s Just Plain Folks Awards in Nashville brought good news to a number of our favorite bluegrass gals. Donna Hughes,…
Jim Steptoe, longtime banjo player with Patent Pending, passed away suddenly and unexpectedly over the weekend. He was found at his…
Rounder is preparing to release a compilation project of John Hartford’s music on September 22. Entitled, Good’le Days: Essential Recordings, the…
The unpleasant infighting among the children of Jimmy Martin over his estate, an open secret for years within the bluegrass community,…
Don’t think we have forgotten about the Bill Monroe Stamp Campaign, just because we haven’t mentioned in a few months! A…
The upcoming Mountain Roads Recordings CD, Born Into Bluegrass – The Songs of Cullen Galyean, will be premiered tonight (8/29) on…
WAMU’s Bluegrass Country has posted a video from Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper’s recent visit to their Washington studio. The guys run…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
