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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.
Award-winning songwriter Louisa Branscomb and her non-profit, Front Porch Productions, will host the first Southport Songwriter Festival this weekend in the…
As popular music keeps getting bigger, brighter, louder and more bombastic, we see more and more people drop off the other…
This profile of and interview with Alice Gerrard is a contribution from noted bluegrass songwriter, Louisa Branscomb, who also reviewed Gerrard’s current…
This review is a contribution from Louisa Branscomb, one of bluegrass music’s most prolific and celebrated songwriters. Do the math: a…
Somewhere around the second or third trip through the buffet line, even the best-tasting dishes start losing their appeal. Too much,…
Louisa Branscomb didn’t, as Stephen Foster might have put it, come from Alabama with a banjo on her knee. She couldn’t….
One of the best parts about IBMA’s World of Bluegrass conference is you never know who you’ll meet around the next…
The next installment of the Bluebird in the Bluegrass songwriter series will take place next Thursday, September 13, at the Bluebird…
Imagine working with six or eight co-writers, with a goal of finishing a song and having a band learn, arrange and…
Molly Tuttle, she of The Tuttles with AJ Lee, took the top prize in the General Category of the Chris Austin…
Weekly charts based on actual radio airplay for bluegrass, Grassicana, and gospel music
