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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.
A.L. Wood, a prolific songwriter, powerhouse banjo picker, and soulful singer was honored in Troutman, NC, Saturday night for his lifelong…
Louisa Branscomb is no stranger to frontiers. Once called “always 20 years ahead of her time” by Lester Flatt manager, Lance…
Stories and Traditions is the new CD from North Carolina-based Sons of the South. The band has a long history of…
Hoyt Herbert, 87 year old NC banjoist and former deejay of Sunday Evening Bluegrass on WFMX radio in Statesville, NC, passed…
North Carolina based Drive Time has released a new single, I Don’t Worry About You Anymore, from their upcoming album, Lonely…
This past Saturday marked 25 years that southwestern Virginia guitar maker/picker and National Heritage Award recipient, Wayne C. Henderson, held his…
According to Tom Ewing, author of Bill Monroe: The Life and Music of the Blue Grass Man and guitarist for his…
In 1978, John D Maness, of Snow Camp, NC, started the Bass Mountain Bluegrass Festival. John Sr or Big John (also…
John Goodson, 54, banjo-picker with the NC-based bluegrass Gospel group, The Gospel Plowboys, recognized by their motto “Pray before you play,”…
Paul Williams and Doyle Lawson at the 2019 Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Festival – photo by Sandy Hatley For the past…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
