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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.
Rounder Records has announced the forthcoming release of Night Flyer: The Singer-Songwriter Collection, due on August 5. The 17-track album assembles…
We have commented twice in recent weeks about the forthcoming McCoury Music release Moneyland. Now I can report that Del McCoury…
Despite his age, 88 and looking very well too, Curly Seckler continues to be professionally active. Recently he has appeared on…
With gas prices making festival attendance more doubtful, for many, bluegrass on television perhaps becomes more attractive than hitherto. Recently, I…
The 2008 series of Bluegrass Nights At The Ryman begins this Thursday, June 26. The annual summer series of shows staged…
Mountain Roads Recordings of Bristol, Tennessee continues its recruitment drive with the addition to the label’s roster of The Whitetop Mountain…
Yesterday (Friday 6/13) I received a note from John Lilly, the editor of Goldenseal (the magazine of West Virginia traditional life)…
Award-winning photo-journalist Stephanie P. Ledgin has announced that her entire photo exhibition, From Every Stage: Images of America’s Roots Music, is…
In November last year Jim Peva gave notice of the impending sale of the Bill Monroe Memorial Park and Campground, home…
Folk singer, raconteur and activist Bruce Duncan ‘Utah’ Phillips, whose songs included tales of the state’s working class and tragedies, passed…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
