Billy Strings "Meet Me At The Creek": Well I'm standin' all alone By the river of my home Thinkin' 'bout the days I've left behind All the...
Billy Strings is a force to be reckoned with in the world of American roots music. Born William Lee Apostol, this prodigious guitarist, singer, and songwriter has captivated audiences across the globe with his virtuosic playing, heartfelt lyrics, and boundless energy on stage. With a sound that...
Billy Strings is surely aware of all of this and spent the weekend doing his best to honor that spirit, the teachings of the genre he received from his parents and his subsequent ascension to the first true bluegrass worldwide sensation of the modern era. With all that in mind, let’s ...
Rooted in the traditional bluegrass style where Strings finds a comfortable home, "Away From the Mire" expands into an adventurous, nearly psychedelic sound. A genre purist he's not, but when the singer diverges from bluegrass tradition, it's always in support of the song's story. That's ...
Explaining the lyrics of "We Didn't Start The Fire" is difficult because it turns out I don't even know a lot of them. Part of the problem is that I first learned the words when I was 13 years old. I thought I was pretty smart, but the holes in my historical knowledge were expo...
Billy Strings Del McCoury Band Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Sister Sadie Special Consensus Vocal Group of the Year Balsam Range Blue Highway Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out Sister Sadie Instrumental Group of the Year ...
“I’m putting everything into this record," he says, "but I want to build my career on the live show. I want to be a true working musician." He knows that makes him sound like a traditionalist and he's fine with that. "It’s more of the old school way of doing things," ...
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 platin...
“Turtles In the Clouds” openedlast Saturday’s show in Providence. This three-show gap would be the longest that the Scandinavian alter-ego went missing from a Phish show sincei Rok’s debut on 10/31/2018.The sweet, gluey magnet reprise quickly shifted gears into lyrics about a weapon-...
The strings would have come in then. We had moved to California and he was coming in to LAX. He got off the plane. I knew immediately it was him. For all he knew, I had been killed in Vietnam or I was a drug addict. We’ve got the same eyes. But he doesn’t have any ...