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.
We just got through a two-part series on studio psychology, and the role of the engineer and producer in it, touching…
First of all, I should apologize for being a day late with this. Even though we gained an hour over the…
Going into the studio to record is something that all professional and semi-professional (and in some cases, complete amateur) musicians will…
Often when I have been on the receiving end of interview questions, and particularly when the interviewers are from outside the…
A while back, I wrote here about bluegrass artists’ accessibility to fans, and about some of the interesting things people say…
Well, if you’ve followed Bluegrass Today at all in the last week, you know there really is something more newsworthy and…
Generally, when I write these around the week of the IBMA World of Bluegrass, I like to keep them extremely short,…
A reader recently asked if I would consider, at some point, addressing the issue of playing for free. I replied: “Sure,…
Shortly after the announcements of the IBMA Awards nominations, an important discussion was started here in Bluegrass Today about the award…
Wednesday night, Chris Jones & the Night Drivers held forth at the Station Inn in Nashville to celebrate the release of…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
