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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.
Rich Hersberger, the Secretary of the Bean Blossom Jamboree Foundation (BBJF), has announced that the fund raising efforts to help buy…
West Virginia author B. L. Dotson-Lewis has published her third book on the people and culture of the Appalachian region. The…
Some of bluegrass music’s top present-day stars will honor Bill Monroe on September 30 in the annual Bill Monroe Bluegrass Celebration,…
September is very significant in the life of Bill Monroe, inasmuch as it is the month when he was born (September…
Some of our readers may have seen a video documentary on Bill Monroe in the mid 1990s called Bill Monroe –…
Monroe’s mandolin is still housed in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. If it is to stay there, the…
We’ve been in contact this past weekend with the administrators of a new web site devoted to the Ibanez mandolins made…
The Tennessean is reporting this morning on the terms of a settlement between MTSU and the estate of Bob McLean. As…
This past weekend’s USA Weekend, a magazine supplement to many of America’s weekend newspapers, has, as its feature article, an assessment…
Check your closets, everybody. If you can scrape together $49,000, you can purchase a 1965 tour bus previously owned by Bill…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music