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Billy Strings Live Vol. 1, was recorded last year and earlier this year at venues across the globe, including in Austin, Paris, New Orleans, and Atlanta, with two cuts from a February performance at the Ryman in Nashville.
The album, technically 8 tracks but adding up to nearly 4 hours of music, kicks off with “Dust in a Baggie,” which Strings has said is about a friend who he thought had done his time and licked his problem, only to slide back into using and prison. If not for the lyrics, you’d think you were listening to some vintage Flatt and Scruggs superpickin’ with spot-on high and lonesome harmonies.
Strings has surrounded himself with a cadre of touring musicians (Billy Failing on banjo, Royal Masat on bass, Jarrod Walker on mandolin, and Alex Hargreaves on fiddle) who not only supply the framework for his solos but add their own musical thoughts to the conversation as well. Nobody is shouting for attention; it all blends into a seamless flow.