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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.
Billy Blue Records has a new single from fiddlin’ Jason Barie, also known on his recorded projects as The Ramblin’ Fiddler….
Jeremy Rilko’s initial interest in the banjo, and bluegrass music in general, began after four years in the Air Force, followed…
Mighty Poplar at the 2023 Green Mountain festival – photo © Dale Cahill In just four years, Jill and John Turpin…
Bob Mummert, 69, drummer with Dailey & Vincent, passed away unexpectedly on Saturday, August 26. The band shared this statement. “Today,…
A slightly different version of this obituary had appeared in the Key West, FL Keys News. John Michael Keith, of Sebring,…
The iconic Camp Springs Labor Day Bluegrass Festival, site of the first bluegrass festival held in North Carolina in 1969, returns…
Skyline Records has a new single today for Dalton Harper, surely among the smoothest and most expressive young singers in bluegrass…
The somewhat unlikely handle aside, Stereo Naked excel at scaled-down bluegrass from a European perspective. The band is based in Cologne,…
Lonesome River Band at the 2023 Brown County Bluegrass Festival – photo © Bill Warren After some late night/early morning storminess…
Popular Virginia bass player and retail operator Jerry Fretwell died on August 22. He was 79 year of age, and had…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
