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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.
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…
An issue much on the minds of performing artists and songwriters these days is the rapid growth of streaming audio services…
Tara Linhardt and her band of merry mandolinists are dead set on wresting the record for the largest mandolin ensemble back…
Robert Billy ‘Bill’ Yates Sr., who passed away on January 26, 2015, was born on April 30, 1936, in Big Rock,…
Bluegrass was front-and-center in last week’s 43rd annual Country Music Awards of Australia. There have almost always been grassers picking up…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
