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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.
This remembrance of Alvin Breeden, who passed away earlier this week, is a contribution from Geoff Stelling. Alvin played a Stelling…
Noted Virginia banjo player Alvin Breeden has passed away. He died in a Charlottesville, VA hospital on Tuesday (2/27) following complications…
Here’s video of Bill Evans, Noam Pikelny and Joe Newberry’s triple banjo version of Arkansas Traveler from last Saturday’s edition of…
A Prairie Home Companion will on this week’s radio show be presenting three individually distinctive banjo players; Bill Evans, educator, composer…
We heard the other day from Melvin Goins, an artist as deserving of the term bluegrass legend as anyone I can…
Noam Pikelny, banjo player with Punch Brothers, is set to use some downtime with the band this year to tour in…
Last week we ran across a fascinating video online, from a musician who assumes the nom de web of Stoney Lonesome….
Last Thursday evening at SPBMA we had a nice chat with George Gruhn, proprietor of the legendary Gruhn Guitars in Nashville….
Who’s the world record setting banjoist with 5 Grammy nominations that you may have never heard of? That’s Spartanburg, South Carolina…
We have learned that Billy Joe Foster, noted Oklahoma picker, passed away today at 51 years of age. A talented multi-instrumentalist,…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
