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.
In late April James Alan Shelton, the much loved lead guitar player for Ralph Stanley, was diagnosed as having multiple stage…
This report comes from C.J. Lewandowski, mandolinist with Karl Shiflett & Big Country Show. He was working at the Sheridan festival…
For the friends of John Hutchinson, the recently-deceased promoter of the Central Virginia Family Bluegrass Festival in Amelia, VA, here are…
Tom Travis is a long-standing and very well respected member of the British bluegrass music fraternity. He is also a practicing…
Baseball is a game of lineage more so than its other pro-sport peers. Stakeholders of this pastime value a certain overlapping…
Bluegrass singer/songwriter Gary Ferguson is preparing for his 10th tour in Ireland in the past ten years. He’s developed a large…
William and Marteka Lake are, as young uns, unusual in that they have received a lot of press already. They are…
Jon Weisberger knows a thing or two about songwriting—he was IBMA’s first songwriter of the year in 2012. And he knows…
In the 1940s and 50s, bluegrass music could be heard on radio stations all over the country, with many offering live…
One of the many people in bluegrass who had been deeply touched by the life of John Hutchinson was Rhonda Vincent….
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
