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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.
On his first trip to the United States a few years back, Richard Cifersky said he absorbed so much about groove…
Many of the bands who claim old time influences these days really have more of a folk or Americana style, with…
Steve Dilling, who has spent the past 21 years playing banjo with Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out, told the band…
Today is a big day for the venerable Banjo NewsLetter. With their November 2013 issue, their 481st, the monthly magazine celebrates…
On This Day ………….. On October 31, 1878, the first lady of the old-time banjo music Samantha Bumgarner was born. Sarah…
Here’s an interview with banjo man Bill Evans, conducted during IBMA week in Raleigh last month. We talked about his two…
We’ve written a lot about the banjo lately at Bluegrass Today, and why not? It is one of the central pillars…
We have some more information about stolen instruments in the bluegrass world, of the good news/bad news variety. First some good…
You don’t have to be a banjo or fiddle nerd to love Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe, but…
Last week, on either October 9 or 10, two instruments were stolen from the home of Luke Monday in Goodlettsville, TN…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music