I can barley understand his lyrics though his smile, but the grave will decay you and turn you to dust and if trouble don’t kill him, he will live a long time. All will be good

Billy Strings

Off the album "Heavy Load"

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Ben Miller Band - Get Right Church

Fall Into Me - Eastern Prairie: Brantley Gilbert Cover

Everyday's A Blessing

A Tribute to Flatt & Scruggs

Blue Ridge Cabin Home

Recorded this from my Iphone in the back of a van while it was going down the interstate... Now that's country. Enjoy ya'll!

Cold Hearted - Eastern Prairie: Zac Brown Band Cover

15 Shady Grove

[Verse 1]
On an Oklahoma highway
Starin’ straight into the sun
Still tryin’ to make some sense
Of everything she’d done

Said I was steady
Just not the kind she needs
Left her words like broken glass
Scattered in my front seat

[Chorus]
Yeah, this sky’s on fire, but I can’t stay
Love don’t live here anyway
I’d turn back if she ever asked me to
But she didn’t want me that way

[Verse 2]
Radio’s hummin’ like her voice at night
Soft and low, just outta sight
I tried to fix what I couldn’t name
But she don’t carry nothin’ she can’t change

[Chorus]
Yeah, this sky’s on fire, but I can’t stay
Love don’t beg and I won’t pray
I’d have fought like hell if she’d said my name
But she didn’t want me that way

[Bridge]
No blame left, just an empty road
And a man drivin’ what he can’t let go

[Outro]
On an Oklahoma highway
Starin’ at the sun
Still drivin’ from the silence
Of all she left undone

She Didn't Want Me That Way

This one’s for anyone who’s ever put their heart into something and been told it’s not “real” enough.

"The Voice Is Mine" is me pushing back.
It’s about making something honest, raw, and personal — and watching people dismiss it the second they hear how it was made.
Because when you use a new tool, or create outside the lines, they think the pain is somehow easier.
Like the heartbreak didn't happen.
Like the late nights didn’t matter.
Like the fear, the sweat, the years — were artificial.

But fuck that.
These lyrics came from real places.
These songs come from the same ache every artist knows:
wanting to be heard, and not erased.

This isn’t a brand.
This isn’t a trend.
This is mine.
And no one gets to tell me otherwise.


The Voice Is Mine

Billy Strings
Wonder Ballroom
Portland, Oregon
2015-11-05

RECORDIST: Mark Burgin tapermarkATyahooDOTcom
SOURCE: post matrix 
#1 XLR Soundboard>Segue Dogstar interconnects>Grace Design Lunatec V2>Hi Ho Silver interconnects>Sound Devices 744t.
#2 #1 Busman Audio K23 hypercardioid's~>BST54 tubes~>GAKables interconnects~>power supplies~>Segue Dogstar interconnects~>Grace Design Lunatec V2~>Hi-Ho Silver shorty interconnects~>Sound Devices 744t.
MICROPHONE LOCATION: fob, dfc, 40 feet from stage approx., about 10 feet high
MICROPHONE CONFIGURATION: : DINa, 90 degrees 17 cm
RECORDED FORMAT: 24 bit, 48 kHz
CONVERSION: Sound Devices 744t>firewire>PC.
EDITING: Magic Samplitude Pro X (mixed to stereo, normalization, eq and compression applied)
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DITHER: N/A
FINAL FORMAT: 24 bit, 48 kHz
TRACKING: CD WAV 1.98
COMPRESSION: TLH 2.7.0 Build 172 flac (level 8)
SBE VERIFICATION: TLH 2.7.0 Build 172
TAGS: Foobar2000 v1.2.8

Please do not buy/sell this recording or trade in lossy formats. Thanks.

set 1: [49:47]

01 Intro [0:32]
02 My Rag~>Black Mountain Rag [4:28]
03 Nashville Blues [2:54]
04 Wild Bill Jones~> [4:02]
05 Shady Grove [3:37]
06 Cocaine Blues [3:40]
07 You Won't Be Satisfied That Way [2:40]
08 I'm Alabama Bound [4:20]
09 Way Down The River Road~>Salty Dog [4:48]
10 Rose Of Old Kentucky [3:18] *
11 Oh The Wind And Rain [6:26] *
12 Dust In A Baggie [4:15] *
13 Little Maggie [4:42] *

William Apostol: guitar and vocals

* With Paul Hoffman on mandolin, Michael Arlen Bont on banjo, Anders Beck on dobro & Mike Devol on bass

Setlist courtesy of Lucas White

Support the artists by seeing them live and buying their official merchandise.

Visit: http://www.billystrings.com/


Oh The Wind And Rain

Shady Grove

Little Circles

White Lines and Neon Signs

From Billy Strings' self titled debut EP.

Red Rocking Chair

New single from 7Horse - Swagger
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7Horse - Swagger

Source: Gefell M20>NBob Colette>Naiant PFA NOS Right side of SNB>AETA 4MinX
Linage: SD>Audacity (levels-paralle compression)

Freeborn Man - Billy Strings with Bryan Sutton - Delfest 2017

Hey folks, this Father's Day I thought I'd honor the ol' man by releasing a single that we cut back in January. Dad and I were joined by our pal Peter "Madcat" Ruth on this rendition of the old American folk song "I'm Troubled" Happy Fathers Day!! 
-Billy

I'm Troubled

Trampled by Turtles - Whiskey

Highway Prayers, the latest album from Billy Strings, is out now on Reprise records and CDs.

Recorded in Los Angeles and Nashville, the album features Strings and his longtime band—Billy Failing (banjo, vocals), Royal Masat (bass, vocals), Jarrod Walker (mandolin, vocals) and Alex Hargraves (fiddle)—as well as additional contributions from Jon Brion (bass, drums, percussion), Matt Chamberlain (drums), Jerry Douglas (dobro), Jason Carter (fiddle), Lindsay Lou (backing vocals), Nathaniel Smith (cello), Taneka Samone (backing vocals), Cory Henry (piano), Peter “Madcat” Ruth (harmonica, jaw harp) and Victor Furtado (clawhammer banjo).

Including fan favorites like “Seven Weeks In County,” “Cabin Song,” and “Leadfoot.” Plus treasures in the making “Stratosphere Blues / I Believe in You,” “Gild the Lily,” “Don't Be Calling Me (at 4AM),” and many more.

Twenty songs total! Get your copy today.

Produced by Billy Strings & Jon Brion.

I'm Troubled

Billy Strings

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