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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.
Home in the Mountains was written by Rick Stanley, a cousin of bluegrass master Ralph Stanley and the husband of Donna…
Harless Williams, or Tooter / Tootie, as he was known, bass player with north Texas bluegrass group the Stone Mountain Boys,…
Bluegrass mandolin legend Dean Webb, of the Dillards (aka The Darling Family on The Andy Griffith Show) fame from Salem, Missouri,…
At the beginning of this month (June 2018) Ivy Sheppard took over the microphone as the host of the Bluegrass Country…
Starting on July 13, 2018, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville will honor Appalachian mountain musician Ralph…
Visible behind the house built in the mid-1700s, long before West Virginia was a state, is Short Mountain. In that house…
On this day .. On June 21, 1938, banjo-playing stylist Eddie Adcock was born in Scottsville, Virginia. Edward Windsor ‘Eddie’ Adcock’s…
Texas-born, Delia Bell passed away on June 15, 2018. She was 83 years of age. Francis Leona “Delia” Bell was born…
Bluegrass music historians and students have been aware of Dr Ivan M Tribe since the mid-1970s when he had articles about…
Well over 20 years after John Duffey’s passing in December 1996 he continues to be revered. And thanks to Sugar Hill…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music