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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The latest in bluegrass music releases, and reviews of both music and other items
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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.
Bud Bennett has posted a third in his series of intensive video interviews with banjo legends. Following the terrific multi-part vidoes…
Ben Freed, New York banjoist and retired optometrist, has died. He was 59 years of age. Ben was that rare individual…
If you are an online comedy aficionado, you may be familiar with a site called The AV Club, which is a…
Traditional and old time musician Bill Birchfield has died this morning (May 15), after having suffered a stroke last night. He…
Spanish banjo master Lluis Gómez has a new banjo book which he says was only unintentionally released. He assembled it as…
On This Day…… On May 8, 1995, Carroll Best was shot dead by his brother Sam. He was 64 years of…
Steve Lewis, from Todd, NC (a tiny community just north of Boone) was gracious enough to talk with me about his…
US grassers are rapidly getting used to the idea of bluegrass music being a truly international endeavor. It may be, and…
The folks at Wiley Publishing have generated one of the few print media powerhouses in this age of declining magazine and…
Jack Hatfield reminded us yesterday that his Smoky Mountain Banjo Academy has moved back to Pigeon Forge, TN, and will be…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
