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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.
Sara Jane Crissman and Scott Napier/Jimmy Adams, Caitlin Hunton, and Scott Napier Scott Napier, Kentucky-based bluegrass music musician and educator, is…
Though their handle sounds like the title of a crime novel, in truth, A Murder in Mississippi is a six-piece band…
The English have a clear connection to the music we refer to as bluegrass. After all, the sounds sown in Appalachia…
It ought to come as little surprise to find the New Valley String Band creating a sound that hews to the…
Milton Harkey with his son, Christopher at Bluegrass First Class 2009 Milton Harkey, founding IBMA member and former Board Chair, Bluegrass…
Lifetime California musician Paul Shelasky has literally done it all, and trying to stuff all of his championships, bands, travels, etc…
The late James Brown aside, Jerry Douglas could be considered the hardest working man in show business. Considered the foremost practitioner…
The somewhat unlikely handle aside, Stereo Naked excel at scaled-down bluegrass from a European perspective. The band is based in Cologne,…
Throughout his career, Darrell Scott has always owed an allegiance to past precepts. But it comes naturally, as his father, Wayne…
On this day … On August 18, 1993, American-born British bluegrass activist Jan Jerrold passed away, aged 52. His importance in…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music