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.
This is the last of a four-part series on practicing. I hope you enjoyed the thoughts of Ron Block, Bryan Sutton,…
Evidence continues to mount on the value of a college education for young bluegrass musicians. As recent graduates from the handful…
As a songwriter, I get a lot of people who come up and ask how I write such horrendous tripe and…
Guest Trivia Master – Bill Evans This month’s guest is banjo maven Bill Evans, who again received second-place in the Most…
I hate lists. I have a to-do list that always seems to have the same ten items on it. It’s not…
Inertia: (noun) The resistance of any object to a change in its state of motion or rest, or the tendency of…
You may remember a scene from perhaps the best baseball movie ever made, Bull Durham. (Come on, Field of Dreams? Not…
[I receive these occasional emails from Porter Mapes, a bluegrass sideman living the life. The previous batch was posted in Blue…
In the past few weeks, my daughter graduated from college and my son graduated from high school. I say this with…
Guest Trivia Master – Matt Glaser This month’s guest is a big shot fiddle player, who—it says on his bio—was originally…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
