Hey Joe!
Well, get ready! LOL!
I'm a 16 year old, Bluegrass/country/folk/classical/blues/rock loving, U.S. dweller. Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bryan Sutton, Bill Monroe, Johnny Cash, Andrés Segovia...You name it.
Bluegrass isn't
that badly regarded...I've been to an "underground" Bluegrass concert before, in Maine, all kinds of people! Young and old...Some very talented musicians. VERY talented. It was a fund raiser, in memory of a well known New England solo bluegrass/old time yodeler/guitar player named Slim Clark. Yodeling Slim Clark they called him, he died in 2000, I read somewhere that he had been touring New England since the early 1930's. I play music at chuch with a bass player who also plays Fiddle in one of the better known Bluegrass bands in Maine...Amazing fiddler, bassist, guitar player, drummer, vocalist (especially), I believe he plays the accordian as well! He has a Fender Blues Deluxe that he's hinted at selling that I've been meaning to ask him about....
Bluegrass may not be well regarded with a lot of people, but I must say, it's accepted quite well here in Maine by a lot of people...
Joshua