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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.
Junior Sisk is scheduled for spinal cord surgery next Thursday (2/12). He has been diagnosed as having a bulging disc in…
This bluegrass story of coincidence and kismet comes from the Queen of Bluegrass herself, Rhonda Vincent, about how she came to…
Bluegrass is sometimes viewed as music for old fogies. The emphasis on tradition, the lack of electric instruments, the sheer lonesomeness…
We received a statement this afternoon from The Country Gentlemen Tribute Band, formerly led by Bill Yates. The rest of the…
W. Scott Street III died on Sunday night, February 1, 2015. He was 70 years of age, and had been suffering…
Early on in the life of this column, I wrote a series on naming your bluegrass band, offering various ideas depending…
Phil Leadbetter sent along a pair of photographs of J.D. Crowe & The New South, taken twenty years apart. The first…
We received a statement this afternoon from American Drive, formed when J.D. Crowe retired at the end of 2012. Essentially, they…
Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper have announced the addition of Gaven Largent to the band, on both banjo and resonator guitar. He…
Dixie Hall passed away on January 16 (2015). She had been ill for much of the previous year. She was born…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
