Billy Strings is known as an electric performer, keeping the improvisational tradition of bluegrass alive while incorporating elements of several diverse genres
Strings and Tuttle, two well-regarded players in the genre's younger generation of artists, each earned multiple nods at the upcoming awards show. Strings is up for Entertainer, Album, Instrumental Recording and Guitar Instrumental Performer of the Year, while Tuttle is nominated in the categories...
Dynamic Pairing: Billy Strings & Don Julin in 2015 with bassist Kevin Gills for Local Spins Live at River City Studios. (Photo/Anthony Norkus) EDITOR’S NOTE:In October, Local Spins celebrated “Billy Strings Month,” publishing a series of stories about the Ionia County native and ...
VIDEO: Billy Strings, accepting his Grammy Award More about Billy Strings: •Top 5 Highlights from Hoxeyville’s spirited festival in the Michigan Forest •Billy Strings wins Entertainer of the Year as latest album hits No. 1 •Billy Strings lands two more Grammy Aw...
One field sweep later, in runs that carpetbaggin’ Michigan boy Billy Strings on Friday, May 28. After all that calms down, California-born Nashville country singer Jon Pardi, with special guest, Mississippi country singer-songwriter Jameson Rodgers, play the next night, Saturday, May 29. ...
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Teaching Skype lessons and in Brooklyn studio. Workshops in Jazz and Brazilian Guitar Read More Choro, Brazilian Instrumental and Jazz Original music and other good things Read More VIDEO Shows - Strings - Cinema Read MoreAbout Apr 11, 2019Billy Through outstanding collaborations like the Brazilian ...
Billy has independently released 2 full length studio albums, ‘Riversong’ (2018) and ’Back Street Kid’ (2021) as well as a 6 track Queen inspired EP ‘On With the Show’ (2020). Equally at ease on both steel and nylon strings and refusing to be ‘pigeon holed’ into a specific ...
Billy86 replied to Larry Shelby's topic in Deals Evolution Steel Strings was my very first guitar VSTi. Mostly because of the raves about its sound quality. I’m picky as well. I play guitar, piano and drums, but don’t have the recording environment to make them sound studio quality....
Songs like the war crime saga “Pompeii” grab life by the hoodie strings, while others like “Duck Hunt” split the difference between abstract and tactile imagery. History wasn’t a rousing success upon its release in April 2012, but it might as well have gone double plati...