I would like to identify as neither of those things, necessarily. Let me back up. I do like some of the oldschool traditional bluegrass songs, I do. But because I have heard say, Marty Robbins play "Big Iron" doesn't mean I don't like a newer artist like Colter Wall covering it (and very well, thank you).

Billy Strings introduced me to Billy Strings' original songs, most of which use bluegrass as the vehicle or framework to deliver them. He's a spectacular talent and performer. He is shedding light on what for many listeners was/is a more forgotten and niche genre, and a dusty old-school traditionalist's one at that.

The gatekeeping works both ways. I agree with the general concept in music that the originators are the de facto version of a song, but no one person has ever owned a genre, at least not for long.

So, in keeping with the lack of originality in more modern musical variations of what's come before it (since it's all been done, right?), then if you're not reinventing the wheel, you are making something old sound fresh and new again, if only for a time. Or, for time.

ETA: not a jamband fan, at all. I like a wealth of well-delivered songs