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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 October 2, 1956, Gary B. Reid was born in Olney, Maryland. He spent all of his formative years in Silver…
Victor Howard Jordan passed away on August 26, 2016, in Nashville. He had been seriously ill for some time. Jordan was…
Robert ‘Bob’ George French Sr., bluegrass banjo player and country music entertainer, passed away peacefully on Saturday morning, August 20, 2016,…
Fans of the Virginia Squires will be pleased to know that Rickie and Ronnie Simpkins, Sammy Shelor and Mark Newton will…
Notable banjo player and distinguished baritone singer Freeman D. “Don” Parmley passed away on July 30, 2016, after experiencing complications related…
On this day 20 years ago Bill Monroe passed away. On September 9, 1996, Bill Monroe, the acknowledged Father of Bluegrass…
Larry E. Jefferson, aged 73, passed away on Saturday, August 27, 2016, at the Rainey Hospice House, Anderson, South Carolina. He…
Enquiries about a Larry Sparks album from any era is certain to be met with a response indicating that it is…
This is fun series in which we ask bluegrass music personalities, some famous, some not so famous, about some of their…
As previously reported, James King, known by his nickname The Bluegrass Storyteller, passed away on May 19, 2016, after a long…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
