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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.
Auld Lang Syne is a Scottish folk song, most commonly associated with Scottish bard Robert Burns, whose artistic legacy is celebrated…
Country music and bluegrass music has been the subject of favorable treatment by academics with the International Country Music Conference (ICMC)…
Weeds (Where the Flowers of Love Once Grew) was written by David Morris and Chris Dockins, two emerging song-writing talents in…
This is fun series in which we ask bluegrass music personalities, some famous, some not so famous, about some of their…
One of bluegrass music’s stalwarts is singer, songwriter and fiddle player Laurie Lewis, a main-stay among Bay Area musicians since the…
David Freeman (right) is inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2002 by Larry Sparks and Don Rigsby…
2015 has marked the 40th anniversary of Bear Family Records, the German-based outlet that is famous for its quality and most-often…
In the spirit of yesterday’s Bill Keith remembrance, several of his fellow banjo players have shared their thoughts about Bill. Bill…
As previously noted, banjo innovator Bill Keith passed away on Friday, October 23, 2015. He was 75 years old and had…
Jimmy Maynard, a Blue Grass Boy in the early to mid-1960s, passed away on Tuesday morning, December 15, 2015, at his…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music