Billy Strings - Highway Prayers

Reprise Records – 093624849438

Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition
Country: United States
Released: Sep 27, 2024
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass
[Tracklist]
A1 Leaning On A Travelin' Song (3:58)
A2 In The Clear (2:57)
A3 Escanaba (4:34)
A4 Gild The Lily (5:06)
A5 Seven Weeks In County (4:16)
B1 Stratosphere Blues / I Believe In You (5:51)
B2 Cabin Song (3:15)
B3 Don't Be Calling Me (3:15)
B4 Malfunction Junction (4:52)
C1 Catch And Release (2:14)
C2 Be Your Man (4:01)
C3 Gone A Long Time (3:02)
C4 It Ain't Before (3:46)
C5 My Alice (4:06)
D1 Seney Stretch (4:34)
D2 MORBUD4ME (2:55)
D3 Leadfoot (2:46)
D4 Happy Hollow (2:46)
D5 The Beginning Of The End (3:57)
D6 Richard Petty (1:57)
[Credits]
Billy Strings (guitar/percussion/vocals) Billy Failing (banjo/vocals) Victor Furtado (banjo) Jarrod Walker (mandolin/mandocello/vocals) Jerry Douglas (dpbro) Lindsay Lou (vocals) Alex Hargreaves (fiddle/mandolin) Jason Carter (fiddle) Peter "Madcat" Ruth (harmonica/jew's harp) Royal Masat (bass/vocals) Cory Henry (piano) Matt Chamberlain (drums) Jon Brion (percussion)
Producer: Billy Strings, Jon Brion and Brandon Bell, Photographer: Dana Trippe, Designer: Bill Orner, Engineer: Brandon Bell, Gary Paczosa, Greg Koller, Chaz Sexton, Jason Tobias, Joe Caldwell, Sklyer Chuckry, Patricia Sullivan, Greg Koller
[Notes]
Highway Prayers, the major-label studio debut from Billy Strings, is a coming out party for the bluegrass wunderkind. Not that Strings necessarily needs an introduction. Over years of touring punctuated by a handful of acclaimed records on the legendary Americana imprint Rounder, the Michigan native has developed a quicksilver style that has earned him widespread appeal and industry recognition: Home, his second record, won the Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album in 2021, right around the time his fleet flat-picking found an enthusiastic reception among jam band freaks. Without ever abandoning his roots in traditional bluegrass, Strings ventured into other musical styles, demonstrating his facility with rock, metal, and blues, sounding equally at ease with bluegrass legends Béla Fleck and David Grisman as he is with rapper Post Malone or jam titans Phish.

Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway: Crooked Tree

Nonesuch – 075597911794

Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: Apr 1, 2022
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass
[Tracklist]
01 She'll Change (2:41)
02 Flatland Girl (2:35)
03 Dooley's Farm (3:41)
04 Big Backyard (3:17)
05 Crooked Tree (3:52)
06 Castilleja (3:16)
07 The River Knows (3:33)
08 Over The Line (3:01)
09 Nashville Mess Around (2:32)
10 San Francisco Blues (4:04)
11 Goodbye Girl (3:21)
12 Side Saddle (2:44)
13 Grass Valley (3:50)
[Credits]
Molly Tuttle (guitar/vocals) Billy Strings (guitar/vocals) Ron Block (banjo/guitar/vocals) Jerry Douglas (dobro/vocals) Tina Adair (vocals) Sierra Hull (mandolin) Dominick Leslie (mandolin) Bronwyn Keith-Hynes (fiddle) Christian Sedelmyer (fiddle) Darol Anger (fiddle) Jason Carter (fiddle) Cory Younts (harmonica/vocals) Jerry Pentecost (drums/percussion/vocals) Morgan Jahnig (bass/vocals) Mike Bub (bass) Todd Phillips (bass) Viktor Krauss (bass)
Producer: Jerry Douglas and Molly Tuttle, Engineer: Paul Blakemore, Sean Sullivan, Ethan Howard and Ryan Yount
[Notes]
Tuttle’s never-waste-a-note guitar picking propels this collection of instant bluegrass classics that careen lickety-split around the hills and valleys of high lonesome ballads and backwoods tales of mystery and murder. A bluegrass festival on a single album, Crooked Tree shimmers and shines with transporting harmonies, lilting fiddles, thrumming banjos, crystalline mandolins, scampering dobros, and driving guitars.

Billy Strings: Renewal

Rounder Records – 1166101423

Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Released: Sep 24, 2021
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass
[Tracklist]
01 Know It All (3:26)
Billy Strings (guitar/mandolin/piano/synth/vocals) Jarrod Walker (mandolin/guitar/vocals) Billy Failing (banjo/piano/vocals) Jonathan Wilson (celesta/percussion/harpsichord/vocals) Royal Masat (bass/vocals) John Mailander (fiddle) Grant Milliken (synth) Spencer Cullum Jr. (pedal steel guitar)
Producer: Billy Strings and Jonathan Wilson, Designer: Bill Orner, Photographer: Jesse Faatz and Tyler Franz, Engineer: Gary Paczosa, Grant Milliken, Skyler Chuckry, Paul Blakemore and Gary Paczosa
[Notes]
Renewal is the fifth studio album by American bluegrass musician Billy Strings/following Home. Released in 2021/the album peaked at number one on the Billboard Bluegrass Albums chart/making Renewal the second consecutive studio album by Billy Strings to do so.The song "Red Daisy"/one of the tracks on the album/was performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on 25 October 2021.

Family Strings: Billy Strings and His Dad Terry Barber

Live at City Opera House in Traverse City, MI. on February 28, 2020

A re-edited/remastered version of Billy Strings and Terry Barber's incredible performance at City Opera House in Traverse City, Michigan. This broadcast was brought to you by a dedicated group of volunteers. To find out more, visit: Traverse Area Community Media

1. Brown’s Ferry Blues
2. Windy and Warm
3. Tall Pines
4. Big Sandy River
5. Mother’s Not Dead
6. Way Downtown
7. Bye Bye Blues
8. Portrait of the Blues
9. Summertime
10. Pear Tree
11. Little White Church in the Valley
12. Fiddler’s Dram
13. Long Journey Home
14. The Preacher and the Bear
15. Miss the Mississippi
16. Dig a Little Deeper in the Well
17. Georgia Buck
18. Letter Edged in Black
19. Beaumont Rag
20. Willie Roy
21. Salt Creek
22. Don’t Let Your Deal Go Down
23. Cocaine Blues
24. Here Comes the Sun
25. Streamlined Cannonball
26. Bringing Mary Home
27. Blue Ridge Cabin Home
28. Rank Stranger

Produced by Traverse Area Community Media, Billy Strings (guitar/banjo/vocals) Terry Barber (guitar/vocals)

Home: Billy Strings

Rounder Records 1166100637

Format: 2×Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 27 Sep 2019
Genre: Jazz, Blues, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Bluegrass
[Tracklist]
A1 Taking Water (4:08)
A2 Must Be Seven (3:28)
A3 Running (2:57)
A4 Away From the Mire (7:43)
B1 Home (7:36)
B2 Watch It Fall (4:37)
B3 Long Forgotten Dream (4:29)
C1 Highway Hypnosis (5:08)
C2 Enough to Leave (3:45)
C3 Hollow Heart (2:35)
C4 Love Like Me (2:53)
D1 Everything's the Same (2:54)
D2 Guitar Peace (4:16)
D3 Freedom (2:34)
[Credits]
Billy Strings (guitar/banjo/vocals) Billy Failing (banjo/vocals) Royal Masat (bass/vocals) Jarrod Walker (mandolin/vocals) Molly Tuttle (vocals)
Cover Artist: Sean Williams, Designer: Bill Orner, Photographer: Jesse Faatz
[Notes]
Home begins with 30 seconds of down-tempo guitar arpeggio and fiddle birdsong. It ends with the full quartet — Billy Strings (guitar), Billy Failing (banjo), Royal Massat (upright bass), and Jarrod Walker (mandolin) — crashing through a cover of Bill Monroe's "Big Sandy River." In between, there’s an hour of bluegrass played with a 27-year-old's intensity, a hearty dose of psychedelia, and undeniable star appeal. Born William Apostol, Strings has it all: incomparable chops, powerful vocals, and songwriting smarts.