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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.
From the IBMA World of Bluegrass: I realized this morning, in between a workshop on murder ballads in the key of…
Guitar hero Tony Rice has had to cancel a number of shows owing to another recent bout of illness. He was…
Three new members of the IBMA Board or Directors were installed yesterday during World of Bluegrass. Each had been elected as…
This past Monday night, Steve Martin appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman, along with Mark Johnson, winner of the…
Hello? Anybody out there who’s not in Nashville this week? Janet and I just left for World of Bluegrass 2013. We…
Well, it seems like we have started a major controversy in bluegrass with our poll seeking to determine who has the…
Here’s ones for all the Apple fans out there. (Haters, keep it to yourself.) Our friends at Whynoceros, who developed the…
Veteran Fairborn, Ohio, bluegrass musician Red Spurlock has been diagnosed with oral cancer. A Kentucky-born banjo player, Spurlock started out in…
The positive reports just keep on coming from Phil Leadbetter, now more than 18 months into treatment for Hodgkins Lymphoma, a…
Talk about meeting cute… Today is the wedding day of Kelsi Robertson and Paul Harrigill, the mandolinist and banjoist respectively with…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
