The Bluegrass Today Weekly Top 20 Countdown

Episode 186: BluegrassToday Weekly Top 20 Countdown – Show #219

The Bluegrass Today Weekly Top 20 Countdown

Show Notes

Rhonda Vincent returns to number one with “Far Away From Home,” while Dolly Parton and the First Ladies of Bluegrass move to number two.

This week’s countdown includes:

• Four debut songs, led by Laura Leigh Jones at number eleven • Five returning songs • No ties—twenty songs in the countdown • A former number one returning at number seven: the Grascals with “Memories I Ain’t Missing” • Billy Strings with two songs from “So Much For Goodbyes” • Two songs from the Grascals’ “Not That Gone” • A new arrival from Red Camel Collective • IBMA award winners Billy Strings, Jaelee Roberts and Andy Leftwich

There are also two short side trips:

Grassicana: Sister Sadie — “Marlboros in Muskogee” East Nash Grass — “Hill Country Highway” Laura Leigh Jones — “Have to Hold”

Gospel: Newfound Road — “I Will Someday” Backline — “The Gospel Way” Kristy Cox — “I Love to Tell the Story”

Join Mike Kear in Sydney, Australia, for the BluegrassToday Weekly Top 20 Countdown.

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