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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.
The venerable MerleFest, held in April each year in Wilkesboro, NC, is set to celebrate two meaningful anniversaries at the 2023…
Jacks Hinshelwood, noted guitarist and former director of Virginia’s Crooked Road, has teamed up with ETSU professor of Appalachian Studies and…
The highly-celebrated Will The Circle be Unbroken, the seventh and perhaps most consequential album released by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, will…
After a six-year hiatus, the Doc and Rosa Lee Watson MusicFest ‘n Sugar Grove returns next month to the mountains of western…
There is probably no single artist who better represents the folk music of western North Carolina than Doc Watson. The hugely…
You’ve heard the song, now read the book! The University of North Carolina Press is preparing to release a new book…
Mathis Haug and Benoit Nogaret are a pair of French guitarists with a special passion for American roots music. The two…
As the title suggests, Songs Doc Didn’t Sing is something of a rarity. A collection of unrelated instrumentals rescued from the…
Credit the esteemed Smithsonian Folkways record label for presenting, for the very first time, a series of historic recordings culled from…
A very special CD box set is coming in June that is sure to delight followers of Doc and Merle Watson….
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
