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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.
It’s somewhat intriguing when a band describes its sound as “mountain music from the flat country.” It’s even more unusual when…
Irish bluegrass/Celtic hybrid group We Banjo 3 has an ambitious December planned. Their first Christmas album, A Winter Wonderful, releases on…
KDM Records has released a seasonal single for Caleb Daugherty, his take on country singer Skip Ewing’s lovely ballad, Christmas Carol….
Tray Wellington, innovative young North Carolina banjoist and band leader, has accepted a position as Communications Manager with Pinecone in Raleigh,…
The ill-fated debut of the Earl Scruggs Music Festival is now set for September 2022. This large scale event, designed to…
After writing 400 or so of these, I find that I occasionally tire of all the truth-telling (with the occasional lie…
Bay Area based Lisa Berman is a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, known as a pioneer in bringing the Hawaiian slide guitar back…
Nate Burie, former mandolinist with Special Consensus, and his wife, Rachel, are celebrating the birth of their first child. Alistair John…
Celebrating ten years of music in the beautiful mountains of east Tennessee, Lorraine Jordan presents Bluegrass Christmas in the Smokies this…
Here’s another holiday offering from Pinecastle Records, a lovely acoustic string arrangement of an all-time favorite song from the 1965 television…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
