Your authoritative and definitive news source for all things bluegrass, updated six days a week, with airplay charts, events directory, interviews, & puzzles.
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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.
Arthur Conner, celebrated violin maker in southwestern Virginia, died yesterday at his home in Copper Hill, VA. He was 95 years…
With so much up in the air these days as a result of restrictions related to virus mitigation, ballots and elections…
Lester Woodie passed away on March 23, 2018, at Lynchburg General Hospital Lynchburg, Virginia. He was 86 years old and had…
Lizzy Long, one half of the popular bluegrass act Little Roy & Lizzy, was in a frightful automobile accident on Friday…
Ask Sonny Anything is a recurring feature where our readers pose questions to the great Sonny Osborne, one half of the…
With most public accommodations closed to further the social distancing mandates, the American Banjo Museum in Oklahoma City has devised a clever…
John Prine didn’t play bluegrass, but he loved bluegrass music and influenced a generation of bluegrass songwriters and artists, and he…
Mr. Bluegrass Manners was deluged with quarantine-related etiquette questions, not only because we’re all in uncharted territory now and have plenty…
Jesse Smathers, mandolinist and vocalist with Lonesome River Band, and Sarah Farley were married on April 4 in a small private…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
