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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.
Garden & Gun magazine’s newest edition, February/March 2011, is titled Bluegrass Nation: 25 Bands Giving Old-Time Music a Whole New Sound….
Janet Davis has released a new mandolin instructional package, The Ultimate Mandolin Songbook. Like its companion book, The Ultimate Banjo Songbook,…
Bluegrass Music Profiles magazine burst upon the scene in the Spring of 2003, at a time when conventional wisdom insisted that…
First Quality Music was profiled in yesterday’s Small Business section of the New York Times online edition. But it wasn’t really…
We caught up yesterday with Phil Leadbetter, resonator guitarist with The Whites, and reso raconteur at large. He has spent quite…
The Peasall Sisters were thrust into the spotlight when they contributed to the soundtrack for the popular movie, O Brother, Where…
Sunday’s New York Times had a piece about a major acquisition by The Library Of Congress: a huge number of master…
Mandolin Cafe and Northfield Mandolins are giving away a Model NF-F5M F-Style mandolin, valued at $2500. To enter, you simply need…
Alan John Britton’s biography, Uncle Art, information about which we shared with you in September, is now available after some production…
Dennis Jones, host of Goin’ Across The Mountain radio show Saturdays on WNCW, tells us that he will feature an Earl…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music