Bluegrass wunderkind: Blount County's Wyatt Ellis gets a Sierra Hull assist to take his picking to the next level
Itâs a glass-half-full way of looking at the COVID-19 pandemic, but both 29-year-old bluegrass standout Sierra Hull and 11-year-old Blount County boy Wyatt Ellis agree: If it wasnât for the virus, they probably would have never found one another. They met once, right before everything started to shut down in Tennessee: Hull â who was taken under the wing of bluegrass maven Alison Krauss when she was about Wyattâs age and went on to record for the prestigious Rounder label while winning Mandolin Player of the Year by the International Bluegrass Music Association for three y...
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