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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 year, I promise not to fire my bandmate, Pete. Don’t laugh. Okay, laugh. Every couple of years I terminate him….
Colorado banjo man Jake Schepps has spent much of the past few years attempting to redefine how the five string banjo…
Early on in the life of this column, I wrote a series on naming your bluegrass band, offering various ideas depending…
Phil Leadbetter sent along a pair of photographs of J.D. Crowe & The New South, taken twenty years apart. The first…
Here’s our Special Bluegrass Correspondent with this week’s Bluegrass Weather Report, looking ahead to the SPBGMA convention in Nashville.
We received a statement this afternoon from American Drive, formed when J.D. Crowe retired at the end of 2012. Essentially, they…
Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper have announced the addition of Gaven Largent to the band, on both banjo and resonator guitar. He…
With about six weeks to go before the highly-anticipated release of the debut album from Dave Adkins and Edgar Loudermilk, Mountain…
Today marks Doyle Lawson’s 52nd year in bluegrass music. After serving stints with Jimmy Martin, J.D. Crowe, and the Country Gentlemen,…
Dixie Hall passed away on January 16 (2015). She had been ill for much of the previous year. She was born…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
