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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.
When fans, enthusiasts and historians retrace the history of bluegrass music, it’s often the Stanley Brothers or Ralph Stanley himself that…
Folks in and around Indianapolis will have a chance to review some important bluegrass history for a week or so as…
This weekend’s Jenny Brook Bluegrass festival in Tunbridge, VT is trying something interesting and new this year. They will be including…
Gary B. Reid has been given the Best Discography award by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections for his 2015 release,…
Gary Reid has shared this detailed remembrance of Carter Stanley’s last show on October 21, 1966, to which we alluded yesterday….
On October 2, 1956, Gary B. Reid was born in Olney, Maryland. He spent all of his formative years in Silver…
“Ask me about the Stanley Brothers.” That is the legend on the pocket of Gary Reid’s crisp, white shirt. So, did…
With a pair of nominations for the 2015 IBMA Print/Media Person of the Year in hand, Gary Reid is moving ahead…
I have to declare upfront that I had a peek at an early draft of this book. Also, over the years (from…
Every year since 1991 the IBMA initiates the induction of deserving personnel into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame (first…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music