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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.
On this day .. On September 4 and 5, 1993, the Sawtooth Mountain Boys played at Wolf Mountain Bluegrass Festival, Grass…
Banjo virtuoso Tom McKinney passed away peacefully at the CarePartners Hospice Center, Asheville on Friday morning, August 31, 2018. He was…
Polly Lewis Williamson Copsey passed away on Sunday, August 19, 2018, after a battle with the effects of Parkinson’s Disease and…
Country music singer and songwriter Mel Tillis passed away on November 19, 2017, at the age of 85. Following major surgery in…
Just turned 12 years of age, Fiddlin’ John Maupin began playing fiddle at the age of four. Since then he has…
Author Barbara Martin Stephens was the common-law wife of Jimmy Martin, much troubled bluegrass star of the 1950s onwards. Her…
In advance of the release of his debut album, Raising the Bar, Chad Darou has released not one, but two singles…
How much progress are you making in jam sessions? Have you got all the development aids that you need? Well, will a…
Retirement became hiatus as Gary Henderson, who recently vacated his positions with the Bluegrass Country Foundation at the end of May,…
Here’s another contribution in this periodical feature, where we ask a bluegrass personality to choose their top five Gospel songs. On…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music