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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The latest in bluegrass music releases, and reviews of both music and other items
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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.
I hope the holiday season has treated you well, that the relatives who gave you that sweater that was two sizes…
Several weeks ago, I compiled a list of things that a newly-formed bluegrass band needs to do to get off the…
We’re in the midst of a series on band self-management, and one of the more difficult—and for some, tedious—jobs facing a…
Having made the mistake of starting on the touchy subject of band personnel changes, their motives, methods, and possible prevention, I…
In the previous column, I attempted to put the important steps any new band has to take into some kind of…
Now that we’ve thoroughly exhausted the subject of band names, and you’ve arrived at your own, whether it be “Sausage: A…
I made a solemn promise last week to wrap up this series-within-a-series on the naming of bluegrass bands, and I fully…
Before I continue this series on band self-management, and its sub-series on naming your bluegrass band, it might be useful to…
The forming of a bluegrass band and the subsequent management of that band involves a lot of important decisions, too numerous…
Wives of male professional bluegrass musicians may from time to time harbor fears about “bluegrass groupies” out on the road. I’m…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
