Join Caroline Wright in Kea‘au, Hawai‘i and Mike Kear in Sydney, Australia as they count down the 20 hottest bluegrass songs on the charts according to BluegrassToday.com.As always, Mike and Caroline will share some of this week's freshest, ripest bluegrass news. And this week brings a new installment of FIELD PICKIN’, and a visit with a guy who practically grew up on a bus -- specifically, the Bluegrass Bus Museum! He’s worked for the International Bluegrass Music Museum, the John Hartford Memorial Festival, Music City Roots, the Country Music Hall of Fame, Bluegrass Underground, Hatch Show Prints. He’s winner of a CBA Volunteer of the Year Award, and a Momentum Award from IBMA for Industry Involvement. He’s also the founder of a hotel jamming festival, South State 48, in Carlsbad, California. He’s creative, innovative, and enthusiastic, and he’s out there in the field, instigating the bluegrass for all of us to enjoy! Join us for Field Pickin’ with Danny “Hootenanny” Clark!In a new segment called RISE AND SHINE, we’ll meet a spectacularly talented young couple from Mike’s neck of the woods. Fiddler Michael Cleveland first told us about the duo Montgomery Church. And in our first installment of Rise and Shine, singer/songwriter/musicians Cielle Montgomery and James Church will sit down with us to talk about their influences, their writing, their recordings, and their music they make together in the beautiful Snowy Mountains south of Sydney, Australia! Check it out starting Sunday, January 22nd, 2023, at podomatic.com/podcasts/mkear or on iHeart radio, Apple/iTunes, Amazon Music, Player FM, Audible, or wherever you catch your favorite podcasts! And join our Facebook group at facebook.com/groups/bttop20 for advance notice of upcoming episodes, backstories and links for some of the show’s featured segments, and much more!