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.
Last week we reran a column of mine about aggressive song-pitching, and I got this email: Hi Chris, I’m a songwriter…
The European Bluegrass Music Association has selected several new members for their Board of Directors. At their annual meeting at the…
Aubrey Holt, Indiana bluegrass patriarch and part of the legendary Boys From Indiana, has been admitted to the Veterans Hospital in…
IIIrd Tyme Out bass player and vocalist Blake Johnson is back in the hospital, but this time from an abundance of…
Thanks to Stu Vincent, a newly-assigned member of the Board of Directors for the European Bluegrass Music Association, for sending along…
I’m deep in recording studio land in North Carolina this week,. That’s a good thing, but it has left me little…
Frank Solivan’s good year continued on Sunday when he took home 8 trophies at the Washington Area Music Association Awards ceremony…
The International Bluegrass Music Association has announced that event and hotel registration for the 2015 World of Bluegrass and Wide Open…
A Quiz ….. From the very beginning playing bluegrass music has been a particularly precarious job, even for the very, very…
Ocotillo Rain and Thunder Bluegrass Band, the southern Arizona bluegrass band that keeps on giving, has chosen Susan G Komen as…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
