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.
I’m no ethnomusicologist. I’m not even a mixologist or any other kind of “ologist,” but lyrics interest me, and sometimes I…
Dan Lashbrook, 76 year-old master guitar modifier and set-up wizard, passed away suddenly on June 19 at his home in North…
Brie Dietrich of the Arizona Wildflowers and Lu – photo © Western Wind Media This article about Brie Dietrich and her…
Kay McHenry loves to quilt. She also loves bluegrass music. And she has discovered a way to combine the two, constructing…
Robert Weingartz, founder and Chairman of AirPlay Direct, the popular radio servicing company, died in Nashville this past Sunday, June 22,…
Rudy Fest, the Kentucky mega festival running from June 21-28 on Poppy Mountain in Morehead, held their first annual band competition…
I just got done teaching at Steve Kaufman’s Acoustic Kamp last week (always good klean fun). This reminded me of the…
The term “Tobacco Road” has been synonymous for nearly 100 years with rural poverty, more or less the country equivalent of…
Resonator guitarist Josh Swift has announced his departure from The Isaacs, with whom he has been touring this past five years….
Matt Wright with Larry Stephenson at SPBGMA – photo © Dream Bee Art Photography Bluegrass veteran Larry Stephenson has announced the…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
