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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.
Colorado Case Company is going pink in October in observation of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. They will donate a portion…
Ever since I first started playing bluegrass music 35 years ago, I have been hearing stories of musicians parking their acoustic…
Here’s something any musician can identify with… the hunt for a new axe. Casey Driessen takes us along as he and…
Everyone seemed to get a kick out of the fake trailer for Jim Van Cleve’s AcuTab fiddle DVD which we ran…
We posted back in July about the fabulous new CD, Waiting For The Dawn. It is a project of Childsplay, a…
AcuTab is soon to release a new instructional DVD from Mountain Heart fiddler, Jim Van Cleve. The product is actually a…
Fiddle virtuoso Mark O’Connor has been showing up everywhere of late. He is on the cover of the September 2009 issue…
Twisty Girl is the name of the latest CD from fiddler, vocalist and songwriter Barbara Lamb. It contains 10 new tracks…
Strings magazine has just released a nice profile piece on fiddler/violinist Mark O’Connor. The article only briefly covers O’Connor’s past, with…
We’ve commented a number of times about the fertile acoustic string music scene in and around Boston, MA. It is fueled…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music