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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 September we drew attention to the excellent new book, I Hear A Voice Calling: A Bluegrass Memoir, written and illustrated…
Mountain Roads Recordings has announced the signing of Rich In Tradition, a quintet from the Galax, Virginia/Mt Airy, North Carolina, region….
Richard Thompson contributes this brief overview of a seminal bluegrass artist. Raymond Allen Shelton RIP: July 2, 1936 – November 21,…
This post is part of our occasional feature, Songwriter Profiles. If you have a suggestion for a bluegrass songwriter we might…
Comedian Steve Martin had the opportunity on Tuesday night (11/10) to demonstrate to a British audience that he is a serious…
Working Girl Blues: The Life And Music Of Hazel Dickens by Hazel Dickens and Bill Malone, has been named the winner…
I Hear A Voice Calling: A Bluegrass Memoir, by Gene Lowinger Gene Lowinger, a New Jersey boy by birth, was the…
Toy Hearts, surely one of Britain’s most aggressive young bluegrass bands, leaves today for a month in the US. The group…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
