This is still my favourite version of this song. He wrote this about his early life. You are right, this is way more than bluegrass, I call it billygrass. Yes, a mandolin. Tommy Emmanuel, Molly Tuttle, Bela Fleck are a few great musicians he has collaborated with. Billy has added a fiddle player to the line up now. ❤❤❤
The term that people are using for this type of Bluegrass is Newgrass. It started I believe in the late 60's and 70's, with artists like New Grass Revival, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and John Hartford. When Ken Burns did his history of country music, he dedicated half an episode to Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and their Will The Circle Be Unbroken record. Newgrass was further popularized in the early 2000's by Nickel Creek and other groups.
The younger bluegrass musicians often pay homage to the deep tradition... Billy has done whole concerts of bluegrass played in a traditional way but the musical culture of bluegrass has been changed and added onto continuously.. particularly from the 1970s on....Jazz, prog rock and Indian elements have been added on.... Billy is one of the masters of the contemporary expression of bluegrass.
I first saw Billy Strings open for Greensky Bluegrass in Washington DC several years ago. The two groups have collaborated a lot together and I think that Greensky Bluegrass was a big influence on Billy in terms of making bluegrass sound “new” and then rocking out with it.
Billy S with Chris Thile from Punch Bros on mandolin is progressive on a whole new level, I’m obsessed with this genre tho I played classical guitar for 40 years.
Great review ! we saw Billy and his band last month , what a show ! Try his new song , Lead Foot ! get tickets if you can , they do over 200 shows a year ~~!
Absolutely a fantastic way to spend an evening! It is total sound immersion with very few breaks for 3 hours. One of the best concerts I have ever had the privilege of experiencing.
It is one of my favorite songs. You will love it. It is amazing. Billy can play almost every instrument. He is incredibly talented. Two years ago he worked full-time and did this every night afterwards. I write songs but he amazes me.
The small instrument with the double strings is a Mandolin and it is strung backwards from Guitar. It's E, A, D, G, from treble to bass. Its tuned just like a violin and that is why you see so many violinists also playing Mandolin.
Mark Farner of Grand Funk says it best “Michigan people do two things extremely well,build cars and play guitars” I got Billy from 30 miles one way from me and Greta Van Fleet 40 miles going the other way.Alice Cooper,Ted Nugent,Bob Seger,Iggy pop,MC5,Funk bros. from Motown. Michigan has always been fertile ground
There's a live band that I've been watching for like 20 years, called Umphreys McGee. They have 2 amazing guitar players & they play just about every genre. Plunger, 1348, and JaJunk are a few good ones that are always good.
The mandolin has 8 strings paired in 4 courses tuned to GDAE (low->high) like the violin with the G and D courses tuned in octaves and the A and E courses tuned in unison.
This is "Progressive Bluegrass" and is very progressive. It's lineage in the bluegrass family tree is traced back to the band Newgrass Revival, with it's visionary core of Bela Fleck (banjo) and Sam Bush (mandolin), both having forged into the great unknown of Progressive Bluegrass with their own projects. Notably for Bela being Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, and has spent his life exploring everything banjo. Notably for Sam Bush is the Sam Bush Band, but like the Flecktones for Bela, is only the tip of their musical icebergs.
Béla is definitely a newgrass pioneer, but he joined the Revival to replace the original banjo player Courtney Johnson - an earlier master of newgrass banjo. Tony Trischka was also a pioneer of avante-garde and progressive/newgrass banjo, and was Béla's banjo teacher. Late 60s/early 70s were a wild time for progressive acoustic music.
@@gordonschenck1672 If John Hartford is the "Father of Newgrass", Roger Sprung is the "Grandfather of Newgrass". He was doing progressive stuff in the late 50s, and recorded his "Progressive Bluegrass Vol 1" album in 1963, a couple years before John exploded onto the scene and people started paying attention. Roger passed away last year at the age of 92. RIP.
David Grisman is definitely part of this movement of bluegrass. He calls it Dawg music. Peter Rowan, Chris Thile, and Seldom Scene are notable mentions.
@@markusantonio4866 DawgGrass/DawgJazz is on constant rotation on my turntable. DG Quintet is also in rotation. The first Old and In the Way of course. But even before that...Muleskinner w/ Grisman, Rowan, and Clarence White.
Honestly, I was expecting at least this sort of musical analysis and perspective from a "classical guitarist" Instead you get "i dont know what kind of instrument that is". There's way more useful info in this comment section then in the video itself.
This was how I found Billy. And the rest is history. I'm in Australia, so I hope he gets down here!ruclips.net/video/qWeStQtBl0o/видео.htmlsi=fr5hWqwrW1tMP4sc
He replaced the mandolin player with a guy named Jared Walker who in my opinion is one of the great players of this generation. The rest of the band is still the same and now they've added a fiddle or violin player to the band.👍🏼
You should give Hank garland a listen if you can find anything I've found about 45 seconds video he's from the mid to late 50s they made a movie about him probably 15 years ago
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When Jone met Jarrod Walker he said..." I see you play a little mandolin , " and Jarrod replied..."that's the only kind they make"
Love this. Turmoil and tinfoil is almost like metal bluegrass. I think Billy played in a hard rock band before. Thanks for playing it. Enjoyed it.
he played in a metal band
@@alro11 yes
Sometimes he’ll play a metal or hard rock tune on an electric during his live act. His nimble fingers can handle pretty much anything.
kitchen dwellers is closer than billy imho. love both :D
Has nothing in common with metal.
This is still my favourite version of this song. He wrote this about his early life.
You are right, this is way more than bluegrass, I call it billygrass.
Yes, a mandolin.
Tommy Emmanuel, Molly Tuttle, Bela Fleck are a few great musicians he has collaborated with.
Billy has added a fiddle player to the line up now.
❤❤❤
The term that people are using for this type of Bluegrass is Newgrass. It started I believe in the late 60's and 70's, with artists like New Grass Revival, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and John Hartford. When Ken Burns did his history of country music, he dedicated half an episode to Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and their Will The Circle Be Unbroken record. Newgrass was further popularized in the early 2000's by Nickel Creek and other groups.
Mandolin is the little strings
Just incredible virtuosos creating the music that plucks our emotional strings.
Have you seen any videos of Roy Clark playing?? He's a master!
Billy Strings is just a natural ❤ overlay talented
That break of sound right before the slowdown...I've seen 7000 people collectively melt at that moment.
You should do more reactions to Tommy Emmanuel, too! He is definitely one of the acoustic guitar playing greats of all-time!
Do yourself a favor and watch their "Away From the Mire" Lalapalooza performance. It is INCREDIBLE!!!
The younger bluegrass musicians often pay homage to the deep tradition... Billy has done whole concerts of bluegrass played in a traditional way but the musical culture of bluegrass has been changed and added onto continuously.. particularly from the 1970s on....Jazz, prog rock and Indian elements have been added on.... Billy is one of the masters of the contemporary expression of bluegrass.
I could also hear eastern European folk influences at the end of the song - starting around 5:25
I'd die to see Billy cover Tool's Right in Two 🤗
Chicken Wire Empire does some great traditional bluegrass if you haven’t heard them before.
I first saw Billy Strings open for Greensky Bluegrass in Washington DC several years ago. The two groups have collaborated a lot together and I think that Greensky Bluegrass was a big influence on Billy in terms of making bluegrass sound “new” and then rocking out with it.
@@craig2809 OMG YES !!!! Cannot believe I didn't think of that...The Beard of Harmony cover is awesome if you haven't heard it.
Billy S with Chris Thile from Punch Bros on mandolin is progressive on a whole new level, I’m obsessed with this genre tho I played classical guitar for 40 years.
Great review ! we saw Billy and his band last month , what a show ! Try his new song , Lead Foot ! get tickets if you can , they do over 200 shows a year ~~!
Absolutely a fantastic way to spend an evening! It is total sound immersion with very few breaks for 3 hours. One of the best concerts I have ever had the privilege of experiencing.
Not anymore he doesn’t. He’s gonna end up doing like only 50 or so this year.
Got my tickets for Oct 11th!
great version ! BS is the BEST❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
it cracks me up the audience is all sitting down politely !!!
It is one of my favorite songs. You will love it. It is amazing. Billy can play almost every instrument. He is incredibly talented. Two years ago he worked full-time and did this every night afterwards. I write songs but he amazes me.
Always nice to see other musicians experience Billy performing his #PanteraBluegrass masterpiece!! :)
This caliber of bluegrass gives one chills down your spine~!
Billy's band is tight, tight, tight!!! There's only one Billy Strings,just like there was one Doc Watson.
JAMGRASS is the term you're looking for! Another amazing jamgrass band is Sicard Hollow from Nashville! Check them out if you love your ears 🤙
The small instrument with the double strings is a Mandolin and it is strung backwards from Guitar. It's E, A, D, G, from treble to bass. Its tuned just like a violin and that is why you see so many violinists also playing Mandolin.
I discovered him only a year ago. Love those guys. Thanks for doing this!
Mark Farner of Grand Funk says it best “Michigan people do two things extremely well,build cars and play guitars” I got Billy from 30 miles one way from me and Greta Van Fleet 40 miles going the other way.Alice Cooper,Ted Nugent,Bob Seger,Iggy pop,MC5,Funk bros. from Motown. Michigan has always been fertile ground
There's a live band that I've been watching for like 20 years, called Umphreys McGee. They have 2 amazing guitar players & they play just about every genre. Plunger, 1348, and JaJunk are a few good ones that are always good.
Billy has played with them ‘Umphreys McGee!
@@Adam-gm5tmBilly rips Hendrix with them. Amazing!
As a classical guitarist you should check out Guitar Peace. And maybe Smokin Strings (with ukulele player Jake Shimabukuro).
The mandolin has 8 strings paired in 4 courses tuned to GDAE (low->high) like the violin with the G and D courses tuned in octaves and the A and E courses tuned in unison.
This is "Progressive Bluegrass" and is very progressive. It's lineage in the bluegrass family tree is traced back to the band Newgrass Revival, with it's visionary core of Bela Fleck (banjo) and Sam Bush (mandolin), both having forged into the great unknown of Progressive Bluegrass with their own projects. Notably for Bela being Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, and has spent his life exploring everything banjo. Notably for Sam Bush is the Sam Bush Band, but like the Flecktones for Bela, is only the tip of their musical icebergs.
Father of Newgrass is actually John Hartford, who Sam Bush played for/with. Billy does a number of Hartford songs, All Fall Down being a fav.
Béla is definitely a newgrass pioneer, but he joined the Revival to replace the original banjo player Courtney Johnson - an earlier master of newgrass banjo. Tony Trischka was also a pioneer of avante-garde and progressive/newgrass banjo, and was Béla's banjo teacher. Late 60s/early 70s were a wild time for progressive acoustic music.
@@gordonschenck1672 If John Hartford is the "Father of Newgrass", Roger Sprung is the "Grandfather of Newgrass". He was doing progressive stuff in the late 50s, and recorded his "Progressive Bluegrass Vol 1" album in 1963, a couple years before John exploded onto the scene and people started paying attention. Roger passed away last year at the age of 92. RIP.
David Grisman is definitely part of this movement of bluegrass. He calls it Dawg music. Peter Rowan, Chris Thile, and Seldom Scene are notable mentions.
@@markusantonio4866 DawgGrass/DawgJazz is on constant rotation on my turntable. DG Quintet is also in rotation. The first Old and In the Way of course. But even before that...Muleskinner w/ Grisman, Rowan, and Clarence White.
This song uses the Phrygian Mode which is why it sounds like “Metal Bluegrass”.
I was getting a middle Eastern vibe too.
Honestly, I was expecting at least this sort of musical analysis and perspective from a "classical guitarist" Instead you get "i dont know what kind of instrument that is". There's way more useful info in this comment section then in the video itself.
Yep. It's a mandolin. Brrrrrrrrr Savor! The seasoning indeed!
Check out Billy playing Black Clouds with the String Cheese Incident at Del Fest. Transcendent!
I've still yet to get turmoil or dust in a baggie live smh. maybe this year at the new year eve show!
Bluegrass instruments created a perfect 4 part harmony. Each instrument exactly 1 octave separated from the next
That's a mandolin.
BMFS
"New Grass" and thats the mandolin, your right.
Mandolin, 4 pairs of strings tuned the same as the fiddle
Holy shit!
This was how I found Billy.
And the rest is history.
I'm in Australia, so I hope he gets down here!ruclips.net/video/qWeStQtBl0o/видео.htmlsi=fr5hWqwrW1tMP4sc
Tommy emmanuel should be next
That's a mandolin on the opposite side of the banjo
There is no rock and roll player that ever had anything on a blue grass player
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
He replaced the mandolin player with a guy named Jared Walker who in my opinion is one of the great players of this generation. The rest of the band is still the same and now they've added a fiddle or violin player to the band.👍🏼
You should give Hank garland a listen if you can find anything I've found about 45 seconds video he's from the mid to late 50s they made a movie about him probably 15 years ago
New Grass
Yes it's a mandolin
This was a clip from years ago. Check out something more current!
Progressive Bluegrass.
I guess you're new to Blue Grass.
He has different rig and band members. Not saying bmfs does not rock
This song is about forgiving his father who overdosed on heroin when he was a baby
How many songs has Billy written about meth abuse?