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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.
Dark Shadow Recording has a new single for bluegrass singer/songwriter Rick Faris, an upbeat gospel number that he wrote with Evan…
Seldom Scene at the Spring 2023 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival – photo © Frank Baker Here’s a second gallery of Frank Baker’s…
The former editor-in-chief of the bluegrass-orientated magazine, Pickin’, Don Kissil, passed away on May 18, 2023. He was 89 years old….
On May 19, Rodney Dillard, the lone surviving original member of The Dillards, who introduced bluegrass music, Ozark style, to America…
When thinking of Larry Sparks, the one word that comes to mind is soul. It’s a word that not only sums…
Mandolinist Mark Stoffel is the focus of the latest single released by Mountain Home Music. The German-born musician has been a…
Kody Norris Show at the Spring ’23 Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival – photo © Frank Baker If it’s May, it must be…
This is the third in a series on stage-show MC work. In the previous installment, I tried to answer a few…
Following a three year hiatus, the Mountain City Fiddlers’ Convention is returning to east Tennessee, with local boy made good Kody…
Jan Purat is a Berkeley-based fiddler, composer, and arranger who has played in many popular Bay Area bands before rising to…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
