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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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.
Richard Thompson contributes this brief overview of a seminal bluegrass artist. Raymond Allen Shelton RIP: July 2, 1936 – November 21,…
Rounder Records has recently re-released a classic album from 1973, Fire On The Mountain by Highwoods String Band. This LP, and…
Last week, much of the music world was abuzz about the news that Gibson Guitar’s solid body electric guitar plant, and…
We are deeply saddened to note that Allen Shelton passed away, November 21. After having been released from the hospital a…
At IBMA this year I had the pleasure of spending some time visiting with Phil Elliott of Elliott Capos. As bluegrass…
Cindy Baucom sent along a number of photos from this past weekend’s debut North Carolina Banjo Clinic in Burnsville, NC. She…
Many thanks to David Hollender, upright bass and banjo instructor at Berklee College of Music, for turning me on to Ragtime…
End-of-the-year tours offer unique opportunities to see familiar faces in new and interesting settings. Sometimes, it will be artists with special…
We are delighted to let everyone know that banjo legend Allen Shelton has been released from the hospital, and is home…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
