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oh nice this is definitely getting spun today. new 'supergroup' of grass players called Mighty Poplar
@LostReflector have seen them live twice now ~ they are focusing almost solely on very traditional #bluegrass (in intentional contrast to the #newgrass #jamgrass #spacegrass #classicalgrass most of them do in their other bands) it's cool to see their excellence in this more historical genre also
@tuneslist @LostReflector Love Mighty Poplar. It's definitely a modern day #bluegrass supergroup if there ever was one.
@aburtch @LostReflector when saw them at the Fox had 2 fiddle players - Alex Hargreaves + John Mailander (who recently learned contributed a bunch on #BillyStrings Home album pre-Alex) ~ they did a similar fiddle duel at the Van Andel Scramble ~ here's the video from the Fox (reportedly the first ever #MightyPoplar show)
@tuneslist @aburtch @LostReflector I saw Mailander with Jeff Mosier and friends at Suwannee last month - it was probably my favorite set of the fest, so uplifting. I think Billy tried to get Mailander to join the band before Alex but he has a stable gig with Bruce Hornsby (and maybe wanted to pursue his own thing too). They're both terrific fiddlers!
@LostReflector ps in fact had a brief conversation with Chris "Critter" Eldridge about this and he mentioned how these players first got together back in 2019 or something at a festival I think and decided they wanted to create a band to show off their love for old-timey #bluegrass but then took over 2 years to get the album done because they were all so busy with their main projects + the pandemic interruptions of course
@tuneslist @LostReflector so very similar in spirit and reason to the formation of the Bluegrass Album Band, then. Which makes total sense.
@mrcompletely @tuneslist yeah stuff I read (including that NPR article) specifically mentions the Bluegrass Album Band
@LostReflector @tuneslist ok, see, I was right to skip the reading 
@tuneslist @LostReflector buddy of mine is close to Critter’s folks and obtained a copy of the Mighty Poplar record not too long ago. It’s terrific.