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.
Nashville songwriter Paul Craft, who had a brief career in bluegrass, died this morning after being ill the past few weeks….
Orin Friesen (left) with Jimmy Martin and J.D. Crowe For some DJs, radio is a casual weekend hobby. For others, it’s…
How many times have you thought up an idea for a “better mousetrap,” envisioning a new product or a product enhancement…
Norman Wilson, mandolinist and tenor vocalist with Primitive Quartet, died yesterday while hunting with friends in North Carolina. It is presumed…
Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper have announced that Glenn Gibson, who has played banjo with the band this past three years, is…
We have written many times about the difficulties Tony Rice has experienced of late, particularly the health issues that have made…
Though parole had been consistently denied for the past 40 years, today John A. Brown, convicted in the 1973 murder of…
I addressed the issue of name-dropping early on in the life of this column. Bela said he was pretty happy with…
Wren Elise Livers, the first child of Nathan Livers, mandolinist with Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper and his wife Steffani, was born…
Blake Johnson, bassist and vocalist with Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, has been hospitalized this past two weeks, suffering from…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
