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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.
Mel Bay has published a book of transcriptions and arrangements based on the playing of influential old time banjo picker Kyle…
Left-handed banjo player Don Gray Lineberger died during the evening of Sunday, December 5, due to smoke inhalation and exposure to…
In the course of catching up recently with Pat Murphy, banjo player with Delta Reign, the conversation eventually lurched into the…
Here is a story of personal loss shared by Robin Cleavenger, and thus not funny at all. But still… “My father…
We posted earlier this year about The Banjo Project, a feature-length documentary about our beloved banjo, the most American of American…
Since they were first introduced in the 1930s, musicians have regarded strobe tuners as the most accurate devices for obtaining an…
OK… not from Tony directly. But his new banjo teaching site, The Tony Trischka School of Banjo, together with the good…
Long-time banjo picker Steve Sparkman has vacated his spot with Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys to accept a position…
With Pete Wernick’s post-holiday banjo camps coming up, he tells us that there are two scholarships available for the Advanced Banjo…
Jerry Butler & The Blu-J’s had a big announcement last night. Nashville banjo monster Charlie Cushman has joined the band, and…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music