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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The latest in bluegrass music releases, and reviews of both music and other items
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What’s going on in the professional bluegrass world around us
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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.
Eli Johnston, banjo player and vocalist with Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, and his wife, Keasley, have welcomed their second child into…
Becky Buller debuts on the Grand Ole Opry (9/3/21) – photo by Shelly Swanger Becky Buller, and her trusty Becky Buller…
We can expect to hear a lot of bluegrass tributes to Tom T. Hall in the next little bit, given the…
Following closely on the death of Spencer Nitchie, his brother and business partner, Donald, has announced that Banjo NewsLetter, the print…
Shannon Slaughter has a new single today, with a music video to boot! Unsurprisingly, it’s a driving grasser with a bluesy…
For some years we have enjoyed music from The Earl Brothers, which is primarily the work of Robert Earl Davis, a…
Spencer Nitchie, co-owner/operator of Banjo NewsLetter, died on August 6 following a brief bout with liver and pancreatic cancer. He was…
James Reams has released another single from the upcoming soundtrack album for his film, Like A Flowing River: A Bluegrass Passage. The…
Pinecastle Records has announced the re-signing of noted bluegrass and Americana guitarist/vocalist Jim Hurst for his next solo project. At the same…
Gavin Stinson, bass player for Kenny Stinson & Perfect Tym’n, and Monique Vachon, former fiddler with The Vachon Family Band, were…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
