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.
Even wonder how someone gets into luthiery? In this video, Ken Hooper explains how he got interested in building guitars for…
Gary Reid has long had a reputation as a serious student of The Stanley Brothers. Having written the liner notes for…
Buddy Merriam & Back Roads are set to release their 8th CD on October 1. Merriam, noted as an original purveyor…
As popular music keeps getting bigger, brighter, louder and more bombastic, we see more and more people drop off the other…
Since 1939 Renfro Valley, Kentucky has been synonymous with good, old fashioned country, bluegrass and gospel music. What started out as…
There’s no harmonica in bluegrass! David Naiditch has been known to joke that harmonica players are about as welcome at bluegrass festivals…
Nick DiSebastian has just released a transcription book that accompanies Adam Steffey’s New Primitive album. It includes standard notation, tablature, and…
Larry Stephenson has announced a new single, the title track from his upcoming album, Pull Your Savior In. It’s a new…
Well done Miss Kentucky! Last night, during preliminaries at the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, NJ, Ramsey Carpenter took first…
Martha Spencer, long-time matriarch of The Spencer Family bluegrass Gospel show, passed away on August 29 at the age of 89….
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
