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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.
The Good Ol’ Persons – photo by Mike Melnyk The Good Ol’ Persons, originally an all-female band formed after an open…
Banjo aficionados and Earl Scruggs devotees, in particular, will be enthused, nay, excited, by the news of a forthcoming book about…
Ronnie Allen, son of ‘Red’ Allen, passed away on Tuesday, February 21, 2017. He was 67 years of age. Along with…
On this Day …. On February 22, 1989, the first bluegrass Grammy was awarded to Bill Monroe, for his MCA album,…
On this Day … On February 5, 1959, Starday Records purchased the masters for four of Charlie Moore’s religious recordings that…
Danny Jones, a founding member of the Bluegrass Alliance, who was briefly a Blue Grass Boy in the summer of 1971,…
Photo of Alan Jabbour taken by Karen Jabbour – from the Old Time Herald Fiddler and ethnomusicologist Alan Jabbour passed away…
This is fun series in which we ask bluegrass music personalities, some famous, some not so famous, about some of their…
It’s that time of year; well, every other year. As we welcome the new year Special Consensus are busy getting ready…
Ken Davidson manning his Kanawha Records booth at Union Grove in 1971 – photo by Carl Fleischhauer Ken Davidson, perhaps best…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
