Your authoritative and definitive news source for all things bluegrass, updated six days a week, with airplay charts, events directory, interviews, & puzzles.
Focus in on artists who play bluegrass music from all over the world
The latest in bluegrass music releases, and reviews of both music and other items
What’s happening at shows and festivals you might want to see
What’s going on in the professional bluegrass world around us
Band news, weddings, births, and obituaries, plus our bluegrass crosswords.
Find bluegrass events near you, or add your own to our searchable database.
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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.
Recently we discussed bluegrass urban legends, but it has since come to my attention that we have a lot bigger things…
We’ve all been the recipient of urban legends or scams at one time, forwarded to us by email. In one of…
Last week we attempted to blame bluegrass music’s violent side on one man: Little Willie, the Scapegoat, we’ll call him. It…
A Bluegrass Junction listener—we’ll call her “Laura” (because that was her name)—emailed me recently, pointing out that there are an awful…
Is it “Mon-ROE” or “MUN-roe”? Is how we pronounce bluegrass names important? It probably is, yet it’s not always as simple…
I’m on a flight across North America right now, the second of three legs of my trip home from our recent…
Since Chris Jones is touring in Europe this week with his band, The Night Drivers, and therefore shirking his weekly column…
Greetings from Prague, in the Czech Republic, where our European tour is starting this week. Before I go on to much…
I know… Chris Jones’ band is the Night Drivers. I just couldn’t resist joining in the fun after he’s written so…
Early spring brings its familiar signs: the start of the baseball season, the blooming of daffodils, and in the northern states…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
