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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.
Deering has created two new old time banjos made from white oak for their Vega line. That’s right, the same species…
Back in January we wrote about the banjo tab book expected this spring from Patton Wages, five string man with Volume…
Noam Pikelny’s new solo album, Universal Favorite, has generated a lot of attention in the mainstream music media since its release…
Our recent post about The Reno Brothers reuniting for a special show during this year’s RenoFest in South Carolina captured the…
Florida’s Gold Tone Music Group has introduced a new banjo model for old time banjo players, their OT-MH, a Marc Horowitz…
Dale Perry has been working in bluegrass since the late 1980s when he toured with Lonesome River Band on banjo. Over…
Let’s talk a bit about another banjo icon, someone who touched the lives of thousands of banjo players over a long…
The New York Times hooked up yesterday with banjo hero Béla Fleck for a live, 45-minute interview/performance which they streamed in…
The American Banjo Museum in Oklahoma City has announced the opening this week of America’s Super Picker – Roy Clark, their…
If I were a casting director looking for someone to play a mad scientist, Ned Luberecki would be my guy. I…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music