The gathering of the bluegrass tribes is happening in Chattanooga, TN this week as part of the IBMA’s World of Bluegrass festival/conference. You can expect the highlights and collaborations to be through the roof all week as some of the best pickers in the discipline make their way to Tennessee.
Bluegrass isn’t like country where you have Zach Bryan vs. Gavin Adcock, Gavin Adcock vs. Charley Crockett, and Paul Cauthen vs. Charley Crockett at the moment. Collaboration and mutual respect has (most) always been part of the bluegrass world, especially with this latest generation. You won’t see any beefs break out between Billy Strings, Molly Tuttle, Sierra Hull, or Trey Hensley anytime soon.
One of the fastest-rising stars in all of bluegrass has been flatpicker Luke Black of the band Mountain Grass Unit. When Saving Country Music posted one especially blazing run from Black during Mountain Grass Unit’s now legendary set at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival in June, it went viral, and then went viral again…