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345				<h1 class="single-post-title">Bluegrass and Billy&nbsp;Strings</h1>
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347					by Richard Williams on September 28, 2026				</div>
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362<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Somewhere in my head, I carry a little list of bands that represent perfect self-contained mechanisms, regardless of category: the Modern Jazz Quartet, Astor Piazzolla&#8217;s Tango Nuevo Quintet, and the Chieftains. Now there&#8217;s another: the band led by the bluegrass singer, guitarist and songwriter Billy Strings.</p>
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366<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I&#8217;m late to Billy Strings; three Grammys late, to be exact, all for best bluegrass album of the year in 2021, 2025 and 2026. He&#8217;s been around for a while but I didn&#8217;t catch up until his new album, <em>So Much for Goodbyes</em>, which is one of the most enjoyable things I&#8217;ve heard this year &#8212; particularly a wonderful track called <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwNwMzjHI0k">&#8220;Lucid Daydream&#8221;</a>, which bends the bluegrass format in a very compelling way.</p>
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370<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Last year Strings was invited to support Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson on a few dates of their Outlaws tour, and cancelled his own summer dates in order to do so. I found a clip of his cover of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNeS_pVs-ms">&#8220;Tangled Up in Blue&#8221;</a>, not from the Outlaws shows but from his own gig in Hartford, Connecticut in July of this year, and I think it&#8217;s completely brilliant &#8212; nothing radical in terms of reinterpretation, but in sheer spirit and love of the material it&#8217;s up there with the very best of Dylan covers.</p>
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374<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Like &#8220;Lucid Daydream&#8221;, it&#8217;s also a great demonstration of how good he and his band can be in what is anyway an idiom rooted in the joyous expression of instrumental virtuosity. He&#8217;s a superfine picker, kind of a turbocharged bluegrass Mark Knopfler, as the short solos on the Dylan song demonstrate, but he&#8217;s matched every step of the way by Alex Hargreaves on fiddle, Billy Falling on banjo, Jarrod Walker on mandolin, and Royal Masat on string bass. </p>
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378<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Together they show how an old-time diasporic music form can be brought right up to the present. I&#8217;m just sorry it took me a while, in this instance, to find that out. But better late than never.</p>
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382<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><em>* The photo of Billy Strings, taken at a gig this summer by an uncredited photographer, is from his Facebook page. </em>So Much for Goodbyes <em>is out now on the Reprise label. </em></p>
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430						<p>Thanks Richard. This album caught my attention when Alex Petridis gave it a five-star review in the Guardian a few weeks ago. Now that I’ve heard Billy Strings and his terrific band play ‘Tangled Up In Blue’ live I will be buying it as soon as I can. What a find; many thanks.</p>
431<p>Thanks also for the mention of the Chieftains in the little list of perfectly balanced units with which you introduced your piece; great group.</p>
432<p>Best. Graham Roberts</p>
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448						<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Hi Richard</p>
449<p class="wp-block-paragraph">I saw Billy Strings at the Roundhouse a few years ago and was blown  away but his psychedelic blue grass. I did a review on my website but couldn&#8217;t find anyone who had ever heard of him. Most of the audience were young Americans who had been following  him around his European  tour (they told me at the bar). </p>
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451<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Cheers!</p>
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453<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Chris </p>
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469						<p>I have been hearing his name and music a lot recently on several folk radio programs. Thank you for giving me a little background info!</p>
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