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Billy Strings
American bluegrass musician (born 1992)

Billy Strings (born William Lee Apostol, October 3, 1992) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and bluegrass musician. He has released four studio albums, with his album Home winning the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album in 2021, an award he won again in 2025 for Live Vol. 1.

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Early life

Billy Strings was born William Lee Apostol on October 3, 1992, in Lansing, Michigan. His father died of a heroin overdose when he was two, and his mother remarried Terry Barber, an accomplished amateur bluegrass musician, whom Strings regards as his father. The family later moved to Morehead, Kentucky, and then to Muir, Michigan. While he was still a preteen, his parents became addicted to methamphetamine. He left the family home at the age of 13 and went through a period of hard drug usage. His family eventually achieved sobriety; Billy stopped using hard drugs and drinking alcohol, becoming "California sober" and consuming only cannabis and similar "light drugs" (i.e., psychedelics).34

Barber was a heavy influence on his stepson, introducing him to traditional bluegrass artists at a young age,5 including Doc Watson, Del McCoury, David Grisman,6 Bill Monroe, John Hartford, Ralph Stanley, Earl Scruggs, and Larry Sparks.78 Strings is also a rock and metal fan, influenced by Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Winter, Widespread Panic, Phish, the Grateful Dead, Def Leppard, Between the Buried and Me, Cryptopsy, and Black Sabbath, and played in hard rock and indie rock bands in his teens.910

Apostol got his stage name, Billy Strings, from his aunt, who saw his ability on multiple traditional bluegrass instruments.11

Career

Beginnings, Turmoil & Tinfoil (2012–2019)

In 2012, Don Julin, a mandolin player from Traverse City, Michigan, and author of Mandolin for Dummies, asked Strings to join him on a paying gig. The partnership lasted for the next four years.

Rolling Stone named Strings one of the Top Ten New Country Artists to Know in 2017.12 On February 12, 2018, Rolling Stone published an article titled "Bluegrass Prodigy Billy Strings Plots 2018 Spring Tour", saying: "Billy Strings doesn't have any trouble living up to his name. [He is] one of the latest breakneck guitar pickers to emerge in the bluegrass world."13 The International Bluegrass Music Association awarded him with the Momentum Instrumentalist of the Year award in 2016.14 Bluegrass Situation named him a scene tastemaker in 2016.15 Lisa Snedeker of HuffPost proclaimed Turmoil & Tinfoil as one of the best albums of 2017, writing: "In September it charted at No. 3 on the Billboard Bluegrass charts. 'Nuff said."16 In March 2018, Rolling Stone released Strings' debut music video for his song "Dealing Despair" from his album Turmoil & Tinfoil.17 He planned to play over 200 shows in 2018.18

He has been invited to play on stage with artists including Phish, Dierks Bentley,19 Del McCoury, Bill Kreutzmann, Bob Weir, David Grisman, Tommy Emmanuel, Larry Keel, Sam Bush,20 The Marcus King Band,21 Greensky Bluegrass, The Infamous Stringdusters,22 The String Cheese Incident, Leftover Salmon, Widespread Panic, Tool, and more. He has performed at festivals including Frankfort Bluegrass Festival (Frankfort, IL), Hookahville, Blue Ox, Pickathon, Merlefest, DelFest, High Sierra Music Festival, Lollapalooza, Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, John Hartford Memorial Festival,23 Aiken Bluegrass Festival, Appaloosa Music Festival, Wheatland Music Festival, Red Wing Roots Music Festival, Bristol Rhythm & Roots, Rooster Walk, French Broad River Festival, Makers Trail Festival, Under the Big Sky Festival and the All Good Presents 4848 Festival. At Grey Fox, he served as their very first artist in residence in 2017 and 2018.2425 Strings has appeared on famous PBS musical TV programs Austin City Limits and Bluegrass Underground.26 He has toured with Greensky Bluegrass, The Infamous Stringdusters, Leftover Salmon, I'm With Her, Cabinet and others.2728 Of those bands he played with early in his career, he has cited Greensky Bluegrass specifically as a major influence and his "favorite band."29

In February 2017, Strings was named one of the six new rising stars of bluegrass by Acoustic Guitar.30 He also collaborated with Molly Tuttle on the songs "Sittin' on Top of the World" and "Billy in the Lowground".

In March 2018, PBS announced that Strings was to be the inaugural performer at the new cave for the renowned series Bluegrass Underground in the caverns of Pelham, Tennessee.3132

Home and Renewal (2019–2021)

In January 2019, Rolling Stone wrote an article titled "Why Guitarist Billy Strings Is the Bluegrass Star You Don't Want to Miss."33 He was signed to Rounder Records in June 2019.34 Strings released his album Home (produced and engineered by Glenn Brown) under the label on September 27, 2019.35 It became his most successful release yet, reaching No. 1 on the Heatseekers Albums and Bluegrass Albums charts, as well as debuting at No. 11 on the Emerging Artists Chart.36 On September 26, 2019, Billy Strings was voted the International Bluegrass Music Association Guitar Player of the Year in Raleigh, North Carolina.

His album Home won the Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards.

In 2021, he joined Bill Kreutzmann's Billy & the Kids for a number of shows, along with James Casey (saxophone).

As a solo artist, he was part of the Newport Folk Festival in July 2021.37 On September 24, 2021, he released his third studio album, Renewal.3839

Me/And/Dad and live releases (2022–2024)

Billy Strings' touring band was expanded from a quartet to a five piece when frequent guest fiddler Alex Hargreaves was asked to become a permanent member during a show in Baltimore on July 3, 2022.40 The band consists of Billy Failing (banjo), Royal Masat (bass), Jarrod Walker (mandolin) and Alex Hargreaves (fiddle).

At the 2022 International Bluegrass Music Awards, Strings was nominated for six awards, winning Entertainer of the Year for the second consecutive year, while "Red Daisy" won Song of the Year.41

On October 3, 2022, Strings announced the album Me/And/Dad, a project with his father Terry Barber.42 While Barber is not his biological father, Strings said about Barber, "Terry raised me and taught me how to wipe my ass, tie my shoes, and play guitar. That's my fucking dad."43

The album, released in November 2022, is a collection of traditional, country and bluegrass music from George Jones, Doc Watson, Hank Thompson, A.P. Carter and others. The same day the album was announced, "Long Journey Home" / "Life to Go" was released as a two-song single. Barber takes the lead vocal on the Jones-written song "Life to Go".44

On December 8, 2023, Strings released his first official live recording.45 The 38-minute long single, recorded on March 4, 2023, at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, contained a three-song medley of "Meet Me At The Creek" > "Pyramid Country" > "Must Be Seven" > "Meet Me At The Creek."46

On July 12, 2024, Strings released his first full-length live album, Live Vol. 1.47 Announced on May 28, the album contained live recordings of eight tracks from 2023 and 2024. The album would go on to win the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album at the 67th Annual Grammy Awards.48

Highway Prayers (2024-present)

Strings's 4th studio album (and first for Reprise Records) Highway Prayers was released on September 27, 2024. The album reached the first No. 1 on Billboard's all-genre Top Album Sales survey dated Oct. 12, 2024 (the first bluegrass album to do so in over 20 years)49 On November 1, 2024, during a fall tour stop in Baltimore Maryland in support of the album Strings performed the album in its entirety for the first set of the concert 50 On January 24, 2025, Strings launched his Winter Tour in continued support of the album with three shows at Denver's Ball Arena. The 21,000-seat arena featured the biggest crowd he'd ever played for indoors on Friday night, only to top that crowd with a new personal best on Saturday night. As pre-planned weeks in advance, Strings played Sunday's show for a reduced capacity configuration at Ball Arena.515253

Personal life

Strings began dating yoga instructor Ally Dale in 2014 after meeting at the Ore Dock Brewing Co. in Marquette, Michigan.54 Dale also worked as his tour manager during the beginnings of his career.55 They married on September 9, 2023, in a private ceremony, after nine years of dating, at the Hoxeyville Music Festival venue in Wellston, Michigan.56 Musicians Trey Anastasio, Les Claypool, and Bob Weir performed at the ceremony.57

On June 22, 2024, they announced they were expecting their first child together.58 Their son was born on September 29, 2024.596061

Discography

Albums

Studio albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positionSales
US62USCountry63USFolk64USGrass65USHeat.66
Turmoil & Tinfoil67———318
Home68
  • Released: September 27, 2019
  • Label: Rounder
  • Format: Digital download, streaming
—411111
  • US: 13,30069
Renewal70
  • Released: September 24, 2021
  • Label: Rounder
  • Format: Digital download, streaming
82941—
Highway Prayers71
  • Released: September 27, 2024
  • Label: Reprise
  • Format: CD, LP, digital download, streaming
22861—
"—" denotes album that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Collaborations

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart position
US72
Rock of Ages (with Don Julin)—
Fiddle Tune X73 (with Don Julin)
  • Released: October 1, 2014
  • Label: Self-released
  • Format: Digital download
—
Me/And/Dad74 (with Terry Barber)
  • Released: November 18, 2022
  • Label: Rounder
  • Format: Digital download, streaming
37

Live albums

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
US75
Live Vol. 176
  • Released: July 12, 2024
  • Label: Reprise
  • Format: CD, vinyl, digital download, streaming
5877

Extended plays

TitleEP detailsPeak chart position
USGrass78
Billy Strings
  • Released: June 10, 2016
  • Label: Self-released
  • Format: CD, digital download, streaming
—
Billy Strings | An OurVinyl Sessions
  • Released: 2018
  • Label: N/A
  • Format: Digital download, streaming
10
"—" denotes single that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Singles

As lead artist

TitleYearAlbum
"All the Luck in the World" (with Circles Around the Sun)2020Highway Butterfly: The Songs of Neal Casal
"The Great Divide (with Luke Combs)2021Non-album singles
"Wargasm" (featuring RMR)
"Midnight on the Stormy Deep" (with Del McCoury)
"Globe" (with Fences)
"Fire Line"Renewal
"In the Morning Light"
"Long Journey Home" (with Terry Barber)792022Me/And/Dad
"Life to Go" (with Terry Barber)80
"California Sober" (featuring Willie Nelson)812023Non-album single
"Gild the Lily"2024

As featured artist

TitleYearAlbum
"Bells of Every Chapel" (Sierra Ferrell featuring Billy Strings)2021Long Time Coming
"Charm School" (Béla Fleck featuring Chris Thile and Billy Strings)My Bluegrass Heart
"Dooley's Farm" (Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway featuring Billy Strings)2022Crooked Tree
"High Note" (Dierks Bentley featuring Billy Strings)Gravel & Gold
"For Your Love" (Michael Cleveland featuring Jeff White and Billy Strings)2023For Your Love
"Muscle Car" (Andy Hall featuring Billy Strings)82Squareneck Soul
"Brown Ferry Blues" (Tony Trischka featuring Billy Strings)832024Earl Jam: A Tribute to Earl Scruggs
"Poor Davey" (Cris Jacobs featuring Billy Strings and The Infamous Stringdusters)84One of These Days

Other charted songs

List of other charted songs, showing year released, selected chart positions, and originating album
TitleYearPeak chart positionsAlbum
US85
"M-E-X-I-C-O"(Post Malone featuring Billy Strings)20248386F-1 Trillion

Music videos

YearTitleAlbum
2019"Away From the Mire"Home
"Must Be Seven"
2020"Home"
"Watch It Fall"
2021"In the Morning Light"Renewal
"Heartbeat of America"
2022"Love and Regret"
"Long Journey Home"(with Terry Barber)Me/And/Dad
"Catch & Release"—
2023"California Sober" (featuring Willie Nelson)—
2024"Leadfoot"Highway Prayers
"Stratosphere Blues / I Believe in You"

Other appearances

TitleYearCredited artist(s)Album
"Slippery Eel"2021Béla Fleck (featuring Chris Thile and Billy Strings)My Bluegrass Heart
"This Old Road"Béla Fleck (featuring David Grisman and Billy Strings)
"Tentacle Dragon (Revenge of the)"Béla Fleck (featuring Billy Strings)
"Road Trip"2022Cory Wong (featuring Billy Strings)Power Station
"M-E-X-I-C-O"2024Post Malone (featuring Billy Strings)F-1 Trillion
"Breathless"2025Ringo Starr (featuring Billy Strings)Look Up
"Never Let Me Go"Ringo Starr (featuring Billy Strings)
"Rosetta"Ringo Starr (featuring Billy Strings and Larkin Poe)

Awards and nominations

Americana Music Awards

The Americana Music Honors & Awards are awarded annually by the Americana Music Association to honor the best in Americana and American roots music. Strings has two wins from four nominations.87

YearNominee / workAwardResult
2020Billy StringsEmerging Artist of the YearNominated
2021Artist of the YearNominated
2022Won
2023Won

Grammy Awards

The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Strings has two wins from seven nominations.88

YearNominee / workAwardResult
2021HomeBest Bluegrass AlbumWon
2022RenewalNominated
"Love and Regret"Best American Roots PerformanceNominated
2024"California Sober" (featuring Willie Nelson)Nominated
Me/And/DadBest Bluegrass AlbumNominated
"High Note" (Dierks Bentley featuring Billy Strings)Best Country Duo/Group PerformanceNominated
2025Live Vol. 1Best Bluegrass AlbumWon

International Bluegrass Music Awards

The International Bluegrass Music Awards are awarded annually by the International Bluegrass Music Association to honor the best in bluegrass. Strings has won seven89 awards from 16 nominations.909192

YearNominee / workAwardResult
2019Billy StringsNew Artist of the YearWon
Guitar Player of the YearWon
2020Nominated
Entertainer of the YearNominated
HomeAlbum of the YearNominated
"Guitar Peace"Instrumental Recording of the YearNominated
2021Billy StringsGuitar Player of the YearWon
Instrumental Group of the YearNominated
Entertainer of the YearWon
2022Won
Guitar Player of the YearNominated
Instrumental Group of the YearNominated
RenewalAlbum of the YearNominated
"Red Daisy"Song of the YearWon
"Ice Bridges"Instrumental Recording of the YearNominated
2023Billy StringsEntertainer of the YearWon

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