I read your comment before watching the video, then paused the video and did another things. I finally watch the video and in the first seconds of the song I say to myself: Wow! That bass! Sounds special! And then remember your comment. Thanks for the name of the bassist!
Imagine being that good at playing the stand up bass (it's hard, trust me, I've tried) and not being credited for an amazing 12 minute set. Kevin gills!
Kevin is one solid bassist. I'm glad you mentioned his name, it wasn't mentioned in the description and very well should have been. I would say that he is holding more than his 1/3 of the sound. Billy and Don are great too but give credit where credit is due.
Oh my God I'd loose my shit lol. I love this music more than life itself. Billy Strings is the best picker of out time there's no doubt about it. I've been listening to Don Julin for years now.
Look at their faces. The focus. The intensity. The look of music working it's way from the heart, to the brain, to the fingers, to the instruments... these gents ain't even here boys, they're somewhere in the songs. This is how music is played.
hell, they probably could have nailed that after jamming for just a few hours together. once you've got 50 or 60 thousand hours split up between the 3 of them on their instruments it kinda just flows. i mean bluegrass is always chilling in G or C major, all those licks just become like breathing once you master it.
I'm a Londoner living up a mountain in Wales and have only a passing interest in Bluegrass and country music generally. But I saw this and felt the need to come on here and say how utterly uplifting and wonderful this performance is.
@@jerry-uy7gp I watched his older more unplugged performances on YT and loved it, then I went to Spotify and it all sounded like it went through the commercial wringer and gave up..
@user-df8hd6dp8b I think he just keeps getting tighter and more refined but that's just just me. I can see a world of difference in a younger Billy and a more mature Billy, for one he's sober and way more focused
@@theanswertois-fq7pd Billy was captured as a child and raised by blue grass pickers in the jungles of New Guinea who learned to pick from shot down American fighter pilots in WW 2. They pieced Billy's ears and and put plates in them.
Today was the day I discovered Billy Strings. I feel betrayed. Why did nobody show me this before? I'm gonna get exactly NO work done for the rest of the day... Bless you, Mr. Strings.
Hi; I am 100% latin american, but let me tell you that I have love Country American music since I was a kid. I really enjoy watching videos about bluegrass and country on youtube. I really appreciate your performance and respect this kind music. kind regards from my country, Panamá.
Obviously I’m heartened by the fact that Kevin Gills, stand-up bass badass, got the credit he deserves in the comments, but would it kill them to just edit the damn title to include his name?
@@annekedebruyn7797 "Billy Strings & Don Julin' feat. Kevin Gills" or something alongs those lines. I don't think it's very hard. Especially considering he wasn't even in the description for a while.
KEXP finally credited Kevin Gills in the videos description after a multitude of people called them out on it. That was pretty deplorable not to credit all three performers when the video was first uploaded.
I’ve been a bluegrass fan for over 30 years and played in local Carolina bluegrass bands for 15. This is very good stuff by these musicians. My only wish is the people who posted this video would change the title to Billy Strings, Don Julin, & Kevin Gills. Thanks Kevin for driving these songs like you do!
If you hear Billy's back story , He had a hard up bringing , gave everything he had to his music and it gave him back redemption for him and his family. Such an incredible Grammy winning talent with an amazing story.
This is why I love you tube. Last night this pops up as recommended. I spend 2 more hours watching everything I can find on Billy Strings. I tell everyone I can about him. This man is something that rarely comes around in ones lifetime. A person that plays an instrument with every bit of their being. He exposes me to Marcus King and I'm floored by a rendition of "Summertime" . Hes only 27. I cant wait to see him somehow get even better.
You just described my journey of the last few weeks, I'm 57, my musical core is probably Zeppelin and Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Van Halen, I haven't been this excited about a new musician in 30 years... After barely playing for the last few years, Billy's inspired me to buy a new (used 2008 yamaha fg730s) acoustic and learn a whole new style of playing, because, why not!
@@k1ssmy4ss You'll love that guitar! I have an FG720S and it sounds better and better every day. By the way, I agree with all your taste in music. Enjoy that acoustic!
For me it all started with Marcus King's visit to Norman's Rare Guitars, then video after video I'm looking for Billy's concert dates within driving distance.
The bass player is a strict task master. If it wern't for the bass player Billy and the mandolin player would run away with the speed, which I would like to hear that. True professionals one and all.
@@weaverfever55 you’re listening to the wrong blues, country and hip-hop if that’s your opinion, man. You must be a golfer. Especially since Billy loves him some of all three of those genres… golfers, dude 🤦♂️
I don’t think non-musicians can truly fathom how good these guys are. The skill and playing here is just mind-blowing. To do all of this with about 5 cameras right in your face is just incredible…!
I’m not a musician but my love for music runs deeper than most. I can watch this over and over and I’m in awe each and every time. Ricky Scaggs even said that Billy Strings might be the best flat picker of all time. Imagine getting that compliment from someone like Ricky!
Can we collectively talk about how incredible this performance is and how we can get this in front of more people. There is nothing like this on Canadian radio. What the hell just happened.
I’ve tried. Most people are dunces that don’t get it and stick to their Cardi B and Luke Bryan. After a while you’ll start to sound bat shit and people will think you’re trying to force your entertainment on them since you are. Then you’ll have to join me in the no friends club. It’s not worth it. Just hoard the Billy Strings to yourself. It’s cooler that way anyhow.
@@yaboi-km2qn Oh yeah, my local rock station has never once played the Eric Clapton song Cocaine before. Oh wait, they play it all the time. What the fuck are you talking about?
@@jeffscott8323 Heck yeah. He's got that flatpickin' down pat. I rank Mr. Clark (rip) in top rung territory for sure. He was a bonafide virtuoso and deserves way more recognition than he gets. The man could fluently play damn near any instrument you threw at him, and make it look easy. Was a great flamenco player too.
I discovered blue grass music through Billy Strings .I must tell you, for a Mexican-American who never grew listening to this.I always imagined a couple of hillbillies in overalls with big white beards and an old pipe sitting with their guitars or banjos on the porch . I'm taking a liking to this string picking music.From here ,it will open to other great blue grass greats.Thank you for opening my eyes to this new interest of mine.
I’m so happy the bass is so heavy in the mix. Bass players often get over shadowed, but this performance is definitely equal representation of each musician and it truly displays how important each instrument is to the bluegrass sound and structure!
Jer M depends how you listen and how you feel music. I think the “air” (over 2500 Hz” takes most people’s attention. Which kind of makes sense since the high note in a chord takes priority. But for me I am good at feeling the entire mix... music is love 🙏🏻😁
I'm almost 50 and for all my life I had the feeling I'm not living in the place I belong, I' m still loking for that country road that could finally take me to my real home, to that place I've never been before. This song speaks deeply to my heart. Ciao from Italy.
J v. Longtime ago in my Montrose once in a while I filled in in Sacramento California grew or I never trueley grew up I stayed. Out all night partying with the best of me that happened to me I think u should if u haven't already use it in a song sounds like it could be a goodie man hell yea
Something unique from the states.its a young country so there's not a lot that comes out as a first or even stylistically regarded truly a united states tradition. But things like blues, jazz, or just the folk are delightful and distinctly American. That is, in my opinion. I'm not educated in music at all.
Hi from Canada, well, you and I may not have Southern ancestors, to use slang, kin from the Ozarks BUT we're lucky, fortunate as music lovers that people like, Bert Jansch, Richard Thompson just two examples from Britain and for Canadian's Bruce Cockburn and Garnet Rogers- this style of music is a fundamental ingredient that back a few decades ago, blended so perfectly with the music the Under 25's were listening to- Ewan Mcoll, married Peggy Seeger, Pete Seeger's sister, I think- so folk music and roots married and gave birth to a folk Renaissance in Britain in the late 1950's...Canada, bless us, always seems to lag but we got Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Gordon Lighfoot, Bruce Cockburn, Buffy Sainte Marie, an Indigenous woman who added her ancestral spice and last but first in my mind and heart, "wandering, troubadour, Leonard Cohen- funny, how algorithms work- I was listening to an Israeli klezmer band and mentioned, ENERGIZED in a comment, up popped these "cats"- Eric Burdon of The Animals wrote a song long ago that I'll always love: All Meat from the Same Bone- how right he was. If you enjoy The Blues check out a channel, Traveler into The Blue, think that's correct, close enough- you'll be amazed at his collection- Namaste from Geez, Mr. Zappa, It's Morning Already! ( Frank Zappa supposedly protested when Dylan went electric- are you that old, you remember? Rubbish then, rubbish now- play Pete Seeger doinging The Bells of Rhymney then play it by The Byrds- magnificent both ways! Enjoy your weekend. Do some praying or chanting to get Putin, to knock off the destruction...
8.18 to 8. 48. That E triad harmonic and then land on the first position E Major, just simply stunning. This is the best bluegrass playing I’ve ever seen or heard. These boys are hot, that bass holding it tight. Wow.
From The Old Man's Book of Quotes: "There will come a point in your life when you see who takes their life the most serious and what they truly care about, simply by how they dress."
the build-up and release which occurs from 5:47 to 5:55 sends lightning strike shivers down my spine... you can keep your quiet whispers and weird chewing sounds; this kid playing and singing his soul out of his body is all the ASMR I'll ever need.
The best part is Don recognizes what will make Billy pop off, and that build up he fueled was what got him going. When talented people feed off each other.
Ive been playing guitar lazily for like 5 years and seriously for maybe 1 and I'm finally at the point where I understand how much time and effort and love these musicians have put into their craft. they are galaxies away from strumming chords
appreciation of music goes way up once you make it to a certain point in your own playing where you can fully understand just how difficult sounding great can be. just have to make it over the first hump of the dunning kruger chart, the point where you can comprehend just how bad you are at something, lol.
The sound on this is just magnificent. One stereo mic for guitar, mandolin and voices, one mic for bass, and that shit sounds better than some studio-recorded music out there!
Here I am commenting on this again 11 months later. lol. Every time I need to get away from the news and politics I find myself right here. Great bit of mind meltdown relief!
I come back periodically to just drop a line or two because of just how incredible this whole act is on these few songs. Absolutely LOVE the flavor Billy brings to Bluegrass. Ive been a huge fan since the beginning and ill continue to be a fan as he grows.
Billy went to school with my son and mutual longtime buddies. Been an amazing ride to watch his talent soar. First saw him at about 10 yrs old playing with his older brother on the banjo. They were amazing back then. Very unique Bluegrass player (Bluegrass meets Heavy Metal). Now Billy's one of the hottest artists on the planet. Well deserved.
I just started learning these songs. So fun. These guys are monstrous players they should all three get credit the bass is so on. I have played guitar and recorded myself and the bands I've been in. I'm a blues player. Good music is good music. Billy is an incredible talent. I was concerned that there was nobody coming up. He is a true American treasure. Like SRV, Bod Dylan, EVH, Doc Watson Elvis, Bob Wills, Jimi, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Satchmo Armstrong, Eric Johnson, BB King, Asleep at the Wheel, and other American born talent. We have so much music to be grateful for. And Billy and his super talented friends are a national treasure.
Even in the fucking forest KEXP still delivers the finest audio quality. Im in awe every time KEXP posts, the genre doesn't matter its always fantastic.
If you like Billy's pickin, put Molly Tuttle on your radar. Stumbled over her listening to Billy's stuff. They're old friends. She is a mount rushmore worthy flat picker. Still unknown except in Nashville.
All I can say is... I was born and raised in East Tennessee... and now I'm looking at a palm 🌴 tree.. I feel like I'm back home when I hear Billy... YEEHAW!! ... and Dios te bendiga.. (that's, 'God bless you ' ) in Spanish... I'm a minority here in Central Florida.... but they're not going away... ........😕
I have to say, Billy Strings has really built up a solid foundation of dedicated fans in a relatively short amount of time! I've been listening and playing this type of music a fairly long time. Don Julin, the mandolin player here, helped me produce the Comando CDs back in the late 90s when the web was young and mandolin players communicated on the Comando listserver. The Mandolin Cafe came around about the same time and a lot of us found out about Nickel Creek and a young mandolin virtuoso named Chris Thile around 1998 or so. Their self titled debut CD was very popular and they too developed a strong following that still exists today. Their songs showed maturity way beyond their years coupled with virtuoso musicians. Basically, Chris Thile reinvented what people thought possible on the mandolin and inspired a whole host of young super pickers, both men and women who are blazing their own traditional music / newgrass trails. In the early 80s, a very young and hungry multi instrumentalist named Tim Obrien left his native Wheeling WV to head west and form Hot Rize. Since then, he has collaborated with many artists including a powerful duo with Darrell Scott where they have made a couple records containing very strong material. Tim is a first class songwriter, musician and performer and has earned his place among the giants. My question is, neither Thile or Obrien ever seemed to get the amount of popularity that Billy Strings has achieved over the past 5 years or so, even though both have catalogues that are equal or even superior IMO? The music business is a profoundly strange place, I guess and I hope all 3 continue their successful careers for many years to come!
All I can say is Wow!! I've never been a huge fan of bluegrass music, but Holy Hell!!! Only 1 mic and 3 acoustic instruments. All 3 players got my attention, however I'm much more appreciative of guitar playing, and Billy Strings blows me away! He barely looks at his left hand and can also sing!?! At 61 years old, I'm thoroughly impressed!!!!! 💙💙💙
I can hardly play basic chords correctly but that has given me the chance to have a jam with people and the feeling is so good, imagine what these guys must feel when they play like this together. Lucky fucks
Nobody has said anything so I will, but not only is Billy the best thing i have seen in 25 years, but Don Julin is astounding too. He could play circles around Grisman or Bill Monroe.
I have just recently discovered Mr. Strings. He is a phenomenal picker. The musicians he collaborates with are phenomenal as well. Music is a blessing to this world, and to see this talented is a honor. Be grateful we are alive when they spanked the down home music we absolutely love ❤️
Respect fellas. This music takes me back to when grandpas house would turn from a quiet night of heehaw, then a knock at the door and at 10 pm grandma fired up the stove and bluegrass shook the walls till 4 , 5 am sometimes. As a kid this was a jackpot for an evening of hoping around and stompn even our youngster feet to some kick ass finger pickin 😎. Thanks fellers.
Kevin Gills on the bass ladies n gents!
In my feed a few minutes ago , dynamite
Thank you sir
Peace out from denmark
I read your comment before watching the video, then paused the video and did another things. I finally watch the video and in the first seconds of the song I say to myself: Wow! That bass! Sounds special! And then remember your comment. Thanks for the name of the bassist!
Fantastic job 👍
Thank you! Us bassists always get forgotten in the credits! Lol...
Imagine being that good at playing the stand up bass (it's hard, trust me, I've tried) and not being credited for an amazing 12 minute set. Kevin gills!
When the first 10 comments are about the bass player not being given enough credit.
Kevin is one solid bassist. I'm glad you mentioned his name, it wasn't mentioned in the description and very well should have been. I would say that he is holding more than his 1/3 of the sound. Billy and Don are great too but give credit where credit is due.
I myself thought it was strange that they didn't mention the Bass player in the Title, description or closing credits.
You must be a bass player
He’s pretty good I’d like to see him play som other stuff tbh, I play an upright bass, it’s such a satisfying instrument man
Imagine taking a nice hike through the woods and you stumble across these guys.
Now imagine the same thing when you just happened to eat some boomers before hand lol you'd think it was heaven calling you home
Oh my God I'd loose my shit lol. I love this music more than life itself. Billy Strings is the best picker of out time there's no doubt about it. I've been listening to Don Julin for years now.
Best hike ever!
Hell yeah 🍄
Better start paddlin’ faster!! Yes haw!
Look at their faces. The focus. The intensity. The look of music working it's way from the heart, to the brain, to the fingers, to the instruments... these gents ain't even here boys, they're somewhere in the songs. This is how music is played.
Not a smile between them yet you just know they love every second
It’s badass.
❤
Yessir they gone 😊❤
Bit of uppers never hurt neither
Is anyone gonna talk about how clean that transition was into Dust in a Baggie, such a tight band
I know
hell, they probably could have nailed that after jamming for just a few hours together. once you've got 50 or 60 thousand hours split up between the 3 of them on their instruments it kinda just flows. i mean bluegrass is always chilling in G or C major, all those licks just become like breathing once you master it.
They are all so good.
@@youweighTOOmuch I don't doubt it, that feeling is eternal once you get there. Very talented musicians
Billy is so good, i can even here a southern accent in his playing
I'm a Londoner living up a mountain in Wales and have only a passing interest in Bluegrass and country music generally. But I saw this and felt the need to come on here and say how utterly uplifting and wonderful this performance is.
Look up some newer Billy strings stuff it's all kick ass
Billy will make you like Bluegrass
@@jerry-uy7gp I watched his older more unplugged performances on YT and loved it, then I went to Spotify and it all sounded like it went through the commercial wringer and gave up..
@user-df8hd6dp8b I think he just keeps getting tighter and more refined but that's just just me. I can see a world of difference in a younger Billy and a more mature Billy, for one he's sober and way more focused
Perfect pitch...
All three of these dudes are absolutely SHREDDING
I'm usually in the wrong place at the wrong time. These dudes are all right where they belong and having the best time.
Amazing work Grace
Somehow calling this shredding feels like an insult, but yeah they are all in close harmony
@@Driftload don't be a turd.
Yeah they're ripping it to pieces every note!
Billy Strings is absolutely one of the best bluegrass players out there today. He also absolutely has the world's best guitar face.
Dude...his facial expressions are soo fekn on point
And his earlobes look like funyuns
tatous are stupid
@Francis poivre so are people who can’t spell
@@theanswertois-fq7pd Billy was captured as a child and raised by blue grass pickers in the jungles of New Guinea who learned to pick from shot down American fighter pilots in WW 2. They pieced Billy's ears and and put plates in them.
Today was the day I discovered Billy Strings.
I feel betrayed. Why did nobody show me this before?
I'm gonna get exactly NO work done for the rest of the day...
Bless you, Mr. Strings.
You? You posted this 3 years ago and I just found him today. Why didn't you set out to spread the word 🤨😂
Haha, and I found him just now lol
Hi; I am 100% latin american, but let me tell you that I have love Country American music since I was a kid. I really enjoy watching videos about bluegrass and country on youtube. I really appreciate your performance and respect this kind music. kind regards from my country, Panamá.
Ah, music: the universal language!
I’m watching from sunny England dude. Music has no boundaries!
Check out the band Mountain Sprout
Thats the beauty of music, it can transcend language barriers
Im a yankee from northwest ohio but my grandpa was from south east kentucky, this reminds me of the older generation and I love it
Obviously I’m heartened by the fact that Kevin Gills, stand-up bass badass, got the credit he deserves in the comments, but would it kill them to just edit the damn title to include his name?
He isn't mentioned in the title because the name of the band is literally 'Billy Strings & Don Julin'
@@annekedebruyn7797 "Billy Strings & Don Julin' feat. Kevin Gills" or something alongs those lines. I don't think it's very hard. Especially considering he wasn't even in the description for a while.
Yeah I made this comment two years ago. They didnt even have him in the description at all when it was uploaded.
They finally added Kevin Gills to the description of the video.
KEXP finally credited Kevin Gills in the videos description after a multitude of people called them out on it. That was pretty deplorable not to credit all three performers when the video was first uploaded.
I’ve been a bluegrass fan for over 30 years and played in local Carolina bluegrass bands for 15.
This is very good stuff by these musicians.
My only wish is the people who posted this video would change the title to Billy Strings, Don Julin, & Kevin Gills.
Thanks Kevin for driving these songs like you do!
Music has saved so many souls
Music has saved LIVES...........but only JESUS can Save your Soul. And ya best be believin' that young man. Or else you'll be doomed. @@whitdurkin7402
Straight slapping that basss
Right, he's the LEAD.
This is how forest fires are started.
Top comment
ON FIRE!👋🔥
Yeah I'm surprised they all didn't spontaneously combust haha
It’s outright irresponsible.
and keggers!!!
Have you ever noticed that bass players hardly ever gets credit? That guy really lays down the tracks!😃
Kevin Gills...
that’s why we play bass. most of us play multiple strings. at least players i know. k
theyre usually behind everyon in the back so you cant hardly hear them but the musicians playing can
Literally just noticed how good he was then looked for him in the description, then scrolled down and this was the first comment I saw.
Want credit? Go to a bank. :0)
The intro to dust in a baggie is one of the best i've ever heard. period.
Have you heard the middle of Away from the Mire?
@@jswhosoever4533 for sure! The adult swim live version is so good
You know
Hell ya
Big up the woodland wizards. They be cooking brev 😂
Watching that old hippy pick that mandolin is damn inspiring.
That “old hippie “ is on the Mount Rushmore of mandolin players. Don is awesome!
Old hippies rock, roll, and bluegrass!
Okay, maybe some green grass as well!
I dont know what to say to this comment 😂 they are awesome though! Living the dream.
Thank fuck for old hippie's ! An old hippie from the UK take care of yourselves !
That’s Don Julin to you lol
If you hear Billy's back story , He had a hard up bringing , gave everything he had to his music and it gave him back redemption for him and his family. Such an incredible Grammy winning talent with an amazing story.
A classic "sold his soul" individual
I loved his story and think he deserves everything he gets and more.
What's the story?
@@sdrtcacgnrjrc you can find it in his interviews.
@@babswright2664 thanks
Still the finest twelve minutes on UA-cam.✌️🇺🇲
Be on 12 minutes of musical Bliss, check out Jimmy Smith doing root down
This is why I love you tube. Last night this pops up as recommended. I spend 2 more hours watching everything I can find on Billy Strings. I tell everyone I can about him. This man is something that rarely comes around in ones lifetime. A person that plays an instrument with every bit of their being. He exposes me to Marcus King and I'm floored by a rendition of "Summertime" . Hes only 27. I cant wait to see him somehow get even better.
Agreed. I went down a UA-cam rabbit hole and discovered young William here, Colter Wall, and The Dead South all on the same trip!!!!
You just described my journey of the last few weeks, I'm 57, my musical core is probably Zeppelin and Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Van Halen, I haven't been this excited about a new musician in 30 years...
After barely playing for the last few years, Billy's inspired me to buy a new (used 2008 yamaha fg730s) acoustic and learn a whole new style of playing, because, why not!
@@k1ssmy4ss You'll love that guitar! I have an FG720S and it sounds better and better every day. By the way, I agree with all your taste in music. Enjoy that acoustic!
Same here - who knew?
For me it all started with Marcus King's visit to Norman's Rare Guitars, then video after video I'm looking for Billy's concert dates within driving distance.
5:35 The bluegrass stare, where the player temporarily loses the strength in all facial muscles, overcome by the cognitive demands of a bitchin’ solo.
Lmao 😂
lmao! That sentence deserves a T-shirt! Well said, sir. Well said!
Also somtimes called the "hairy eye"
Also seen at 2:40
I'm pretty sure I made that face several times rolling on ecstacy lol
theres a ton of ways you can disagree with america and this is not one of them
Not a chance
The bass player is a strict task master. If it wern't for the bass player Billy and the mandolin player would run away with the speed, which I would like to hear that. True professionals one and all.
As a bass player, I always use the passing note to signal to the guitar player that his solo was over.
Absolutely. ♡♡♡
Strut your stuff if you got it.. no rap no blues no whiny country real American music don't get better than this
@@weaverfever55 you’re listening to the wrong blues, country and hip-hop if that’s your opinion, man. You must be a golfer.
Especially since Billy loves him some of all three of those genres… golfers, dude 🤦♂️
@@taylorpelletier89 Don’t rag on golfers. I’m a bass player AND a golfer. In fact, some of the best golfers I know also play bass.
Holy fuck, this is exactly what I wanted and didn't know it
Same🙌🥹 Billy Strings is a LEGEND 🧎♀️✨️🎸🎶🔥🔥🔥❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🫶
I don’t think non-musicians can truly fathom how good these guys are. The skill and playing here is just mind-blowing. To do all of this with about 5 cameras right in your face is just incredible…!
I’m not a musician but my love for music runs deeper than most. I can watch this over and over and I’m in awe each and every time. Ricky Scaggs even said that Billy Strings might be the best flat picker of all time. Imagine getting that compliment from someone like Ricky!
🙄
Can we collectively talk about how incredible this performance is and how we can get this in front of more people. There is nothing like this on Canadian radio. What the hell just happened.
That's why God invented UA-cam and Spotify
You can’t have drug references on the radio.
dig
I’ve tried. Most people are dunces that don’t get it and stick to their Cardi B and Luke Bryan. After a while you’ll start to sound bat shit and people will think you’re trying to force your entertainment on them since you are. Then you’ll have to join me in the no friends club. It’s not worth it. Just hoard the Billy Strings to yourself. It’s cooler that way anyhow.
@@yaboi-km2qn Oh yeah, my local rock station has never once played the Eric Clapton song Cocaine before. Oh wait, they play it all the time.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Our boy is now a Grammy winner. And rightfully so.
My mandolin listens to this when I'm not home
😂😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣
As a guitarist, I'll never get tired of the faces we make while performing...unknowingly. Expression at it's finest, my friends.
Remember Roy Clark used to have those Facial expressions. Meant he was into what he was doing Billy doin same thing. And it's working for him.
This Boy goin be great. Also
@@jeffscott8323 Heck yeah. He's got that flatpickin' down pat. I rank Mr. Clark (rip) in top rung territory for sure. He was a bonafide virtuoso and deserves way more recognition than he gets. The man could fluently play damn near any instrument you threw at him, and make it look easy. Was a great flamenco player too.
Robin Trower FTW!
No overnight success stories - Billy Strings walked the long road.
I discovered blue grass music through Billy Strings .I must tell you, for a Mexican-American who never grew listening to this.I always imagined a couple of hillbillies in overalls with big white beards and an old pipe sitting with their guitars or banjos on the
porch . I'm taking a liking to this string picking music.From here ,it will open to other great blue grass greats.Thank you for opening my eyes to this new interest of mine.
I’m so happy the bass is so heavy in the mix. Bass players often get over shadowed, but this performance is definitely equal representation of each musician and it truly displays how important each instrument is to the bluegrass sound and structure!
You dont mix music like this! They mix themselves! That's why its so great! One stereo mic, that's it!
Hell yes from Hoosier land..Bill Monroe campground..John Hartford festival
Jer M depends how you listen and how you feel music. I think the “air” (over 2500 Hz” takes most people’s attention. Which kind of makes sense since the high note in a chord takes priority. But for me I am good at feeling the entire mix... music is love 🙏🏻😁
Trampled by Turtles has really prominent bass in their songs
Agree with every point. Recording outdoors is dodgy. The mix was superb!
i come back and watch this atleast once a week
😂same here
so am i. they are fantastic! (and billy, while he is always brilliant, has never been better than with those guys)
I'm almost 50 and for all my life I had the feeling I'm not living in the place I belong, I' m still loking for that country road that could finally take me to my real home, to that place I've never been before.
This song speaks deeply to my heart.
Ciao from Italy.
This is how I will always remember Billy Strings.
Me too 👍
I came home from work to find my acoustic up and left me.
She left a note on the table that simply read “Going to be with Billy”
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J v. Longtime ago in my Montrose once in a while I filled in in Sacramento California grew or I never trueley grew up I stayed. Out all night partying with the best of me that happened to me I think u should if u haven't already use it in a song sounds like it could be a goodie man hell yea
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Can you blame her??
@@johnsennett1690 do what?
I'm in the UK (Yorkshire) and in my 60's. Wow, I love this music. I cannot stop watching Billy play... Fantastic
Something unique from the states.its a young country so there's not a lot that comes out as a first or even stylistically regarded truly a united states tradition. But things like blues, jazz, or just the folk are delightful and distinctly American. That is, in my opinion. I'm not educated in music at all.
Yorkshire is basically Alabama (at least cousins seem to think it is), so not really surprising 😂
They are afraid that type of pickin
Hi from Canada, well, you and I may not have Southern ancestors, to use slang, kin from the Ozarks BUT we're lucky, fortunate as music lovers that people like, Bert Jansch, Richard Thompson just two examples from Britain and for Canadian's Bruce Cockburn and Garnet Rogers- this style of music is a fundamental ingredient that back a few decades ago, blended so perfectly with the music the Under 25's were listening to- Ewan Mcoll, married Peggy Seeger, Pete Seeger's sister, I think- so folk music and roots married and gave birth to a folk Renaissance in Britain in the late 1950's...Canada, bless us, always seems to lag but we got Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Gordon Lighfoot, Bruce Cockburn, Buffy Sainte Marie, an Indigenous woman who added her ancestral spice and last but first in my mind and heart, "wandering, troubadour, Leonard Cohen- funny, how algorithms work- I was listening to an Israeli klezmer band and mentioned, ENERGIZED in a comment, up popped these "cats"- Eric Burdon of The Animals wrote a song long ago that I'll always love: All Meat from the Same Bone- how right he was. If you enjoy The Blues check out a channel, Traveler into The Blue, think that's correct, close enough- you'll be amazed at his collection- Namaste from Geez, Mr. Zappa, It's Morning Already! ( Frank Zappa supposedly protested when Dylan went electric- are you that old, you remember? Rubbish then, rubbish now- play Pete Seeger doinging The Bells of Rhymney then play it by The Byrds- magnificent both ways! Enjoy your weekend. Do some praying or chanting to get Putin, to knock off the destruction...
That was the most flawless song transition ive ever heard, goddamn
SERIOUSLY . I exclaimed out loud in my basement. How am I just hearing this now .
virtually seamless .... amazing aren't they?
You can't stop staring at that ear
got me
He can get that fixed if he wants. Won’t be half as traumatic as when it broke through. Evidently doesn’t bother him half as much as it does you.
The tip of that flap has more talent in it than you will ever have in your lifetime.
Every body has a past.. it makes us who we are
He should get both fixed. I bet some bluegrass loving doc out there would do it for free.
8.18 to 8. 48. That E triad harmonic and then land on the first position E Major, just simply stunning. This is the best bluegrass playing I’ve ever seen or heard. These boys are hot, that bass holding it tight. Wow.
So glad someone called this out. Best part of the whole video.
Thank you for your for your wisdom, good sir.
The best 12 minutes of video on UA-cam. Absolutely breathtaking! This is REAL music.
Amen.
2nd the Amen
All my 67 years listening to pickers Billy has an awesome signature. 🔥❤️
Dust in a baggie was my cherrie
Don't understand the hate some people have on country music, that music is a true banger
I love that you can actually hear the bass clearly. Sounds so good!
Agreed 1000 percent
You know the bluegrass circle gonna be lit when one dude has a hole in his shirt.
A man has to have a hole to place his head through thr potatoe sack somehow.
Billy to geniusz , brawo !!!
Yo man you light the earth on fire with your pickin and maintain your Marlboro at the same time🤣
From The Old Man's Book of Quotes:
"There will come a point in your life when you see who takes their life the most serious and what they truly care about, simply by how they dress."
and another in his ear hahaha
That’s some damn fine pickin’!!! This is my first time hearing these boys; Damn sure won’t be the last!!! Made my day!!! 😀
the build-up and release which occurs from 5:47 to 5:55 sends lightning strike shivers down my spine... you can keep your quiet whispers and weird chewing sounds; this kid playing and singing his soul out of his body is all the ASMR I'll ever need.
Agreed
The best part is Don recognizes what will make Billy pop off, and that build up he fueled was what got him going. When talented people feed off each other.
Fucking right. Energy is on point.
my second fav part of this performance besides the transition into this song!!
Woah. Same feeling. 😯
"Twenty long years for dust in a baggie." Now that some blues worth singing! These guys are awesome!
Trump will grant him a pardon even if he is white. ( ;) )
I did 18 long months for chemicals for manufacture in a Home Depot baggie
The veins popping out of Billy Strings' pickin' hand are like hydraulic lines about to burst. Good God what a set.
Just discovered this guy by accident.
I can't stop replaying it 🤘
Me too, Guys are phenomenal
Same here
Ive been playing guitar lazily for like 5 years and seriously for maybe 1 and I'm finally at the point where I understand how much time and effort and love these musicians have put into their craft. they are galaxies away from strumming chords
appreciation of music goes way up once you make it to a certain point in your own playing where you can fully understand just how difficult sounding great can be.
just have to make it over the first hump of the dunning kruger chart, the point where you can comprehend just how bad you are at something, lol.
Called being a professional
One of the greatest UA-cam videos of all time.
Yes .. yes it is.
I discovered Billy Strings in 2019; it was a good year.
Their you go brother!! Find that goodness!! I love it man
You should see him live if you haven't.... absolutely amazing.
Thats why 2020 is f'ing awesome for me :)
I just found him!
Hands down the best version of Dust In A Baggie in my opinion. Absolutely amazing, all of them, through and through.
U said that dam right. And a Michigan native giving me a humbling at my own dam music. Carolina mountain boy whom was forced to bow to Billy
Best I've ever heard for sure
The sound on this is just magnificent. One stereo mic for guitar, mandolin and voices, one mic for bass, and that shit sounds better than some studio-recorded music out there!
I never leave comments. But I believe this is my favorite video of all time.
Two years on, my words slightly changed from “this is the best thing I’ve heard” to.. THATS INSANE!
4 million views and i remember watching these guys at the Asparagus Festival😁
It’s amazing how billy doesn’t miss any notes on the guitar! So crisp!
That’s skill.
Here I am commenting on this again 11 months later. lol. Every time I need to get away from the news and politics I find myself right here. Great bit of mind meltdown relief!
Just stay here!!!!
these are without question the 3 coolest men on the planet
Young faces showing respect for and playing old music mighty fine.
Dust in a baggie is a great American song. 💪
Man, the transition between the first two songs is amazing.
I come back periodically to just drop a line or two because of just how incredible this whole act is on these few songs. Absolutely LOVE the flavor Billy brings to Bluegrass. Ive been a huge fan since the beginning and ill continue to be a fan as he grows.
Billy went to school with my son and mutual longtime buddies. Been an amazing ride to watch his talent soar. First saw him at about 10 yrs old playing with his older brother on the banjo. They were amazing back then. Very unique Bluegrass player (Bluegrass meets Heavy Metal). Now Billy's one of the hottest artists on the planet. Well deserved.
You from Glen Arbor?
2:39 expressions worth a thousand words. It´s not about him playing music anymore. It´s the music that´s playing him. Love it
The feeling... thats where it's at
Im pretty sure it was his face playing the guitar.
The three of them together are just absolutely ridiculous.
The way that the first part just went right into Dust in a Baggie was awesome!!!
Kevin Gills, Don Julin and Billy Strings at their best.
Damn, that's the best country that I've heard in a long time!
Watchin these guys play is more addictive then any dust in a baggy
Don Julin is king
I just started learning these songs. So fun. These guys are monstrous players they should all three get credit the bass is so on. I have played guitar and recorded myself and the bands I've been in. I'm a blues player. Good music is good music. Billy is an incredible talent. I was concerned that there was nobody coming up. He is a true American treasure. Like SRV, Bod Dylan, EVH, Doc Watson Elvis, Bob Wills, Jimi, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Satchmo Armstrong, Eric Johnson, BB King, Asleep at the Wheel, and other American born talent. We have so much music to be grateful for. And Billy and his super talented friends are a national treasure.
The best 12 minutes of music performance on UA-cam? Outrageously good.
Couldn't agree more. Superb strumming, picking and tunes - particularly enjoyed Albino skunk. Thanks for all the hard work folks.
Kevin Gills on the bass everybody 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
Even in the fucking forest KEXP still delivers the finest audio quality. Im in awe every time KEXP posts, the genre doesn't matter its always fantastic.
I have listened to this an unreasonable number of times now...so good!! Thanks KEXP for introducing me to this!
Explains the problem and the views🤣ha
We've watched this a few as well! Look at that short hair and remember lol )
If you like Billy's pickin, put Molly Tuttle on your radar. Stumbled over her listening to Billy's stuff. They're old friends. She is a mount rushmore worthy flat picker. Still unknown except in Nashville.
Billy the kid is tearing up America with that truly God given picking talent. Truly a one of a kind.....I really appreciate him and his music...
“20 long years for some dust in a baggy” has gotta be the catchiest shit I’ve heard, hell of a good job.
I listen to this every Day... Realy.. every day
Me too
I can’t blame you.
Me too. For months now.
Me too, from Japan
Same. This particular video changed my life. For the better.✌️
This thing you’re feeling happens when people become music
I went to college in western Maryland, and I got turned into bluegrass music. I love it. I call it happy music. Yeah
ANYONE ELSE WATCH THIS DAILY?!
Me
Brady Ross
I just discovered it a couple hours ago but I’ve watched three times so far.
Seriously killer playing, and great songs!
Guilty
yesss
me!
Amazing sound engineering!
Dork
Kexp are masters at it
Songs I’ve heard a million times sound new the way they mix.
All I can say is... I was born and raised in East Tennessee... and now I'm looking at a palm 🌴 tree.. I feel like I'm back home when I hear Billy... YEEHAW!! ... and Dios te bendiga.. (that's, 'God bless you ' ) in Spanish... I'm a minority here in Central Florida.... but they're not going away... ........😕
I have to say, Billy Strings has really built up a solid foundation of dedicated fans in a relatively short amount of time! I've been listening and playing this type of music a fairly long time. Don Julin, the mandolin player here, helped me produce the Comando CDs back in the late 90s when the web was young and mandolin players communicated on the Comando listserver. The Mandolin Cafe came around about the same time and a lot of us found out about Nickel Creek and a young mandolin virtuoso named Chris Thile around 1998 or so. Their self titled debut CD was very popular and they too developed a strong following that still exists today. Their songs showed maturity way beyond their years coupled with virtuoso musicians. Basically, Chris Thile reinvented what people thought possible on the mandolin and inspired a whole host of young super pickers, both men and women who are blazing their own traditional music / newgrass trails. In the early 80s, a very young and hungry multi instrumentalist named Tim Obrien left his native Wheeling WV to head west and form Hot Rize. Since then, he has collaborated with many artists including a powerful duo with Darrell Scott where they have made a couple records containing very strong material. Tim is a first class songwriter, musician and performer and has earned his place among the giants. My question is, neither Thile or Obrien ever seemed to get the amount of popularity that Billy Strings has achieved over the past 5 years or so, even though both have catalogues that are equal or even superior IMO? The music business is a profoundly strange place, I guess and I hope all 3 continue their successful careers for many years to come!
Love to see Billy and Punch Bros get down.
Billy is special that's why. Fkn comes around far less often. I love Thile and Obrien, but there's just something about Billy that is the music.
That’s one hell of a good string band. Masters locked into solid timing, and playing fast enough to catch fire. Hot rod fingers.
I stumbled upon these guys by accident, but what a fortunate accident it was. Tremendous uplifting, joyous music, played by maestros. Love it.
Billy Strings astounds me and makes me laugh with his facial expressions
Reminds me of Roy clark yrs ago.
All I can say is Wow!! I've never been a huge fan of bluegrass music, but Holy Hell!!! Only 1 mic and 3 acoustic instruments. All 3 players got my attention, however I'm much more appreciative of guitar playing, and Billy Strings blows me away! He barely looks at his left hand and can also sing!?! At 61 years old, I'm thoroughly impressed!!!!! 💙💙💙
If you think that's impressive, you should check out Doc Watson. He was the blind guitar picker that originated the flat picking style.
I can hardly play basic chords correctly but that has given me the chance to have a jam with people and the feeling is so good, imagine what these guys must feel when they play like this together. Lucky fucks
Really good work by the music engineers for the clean sound
Nobody has said anything so I will, but not only is Billy the best thing i have seen in 25 years, but Don Julin is astounding too. He could play circles around Grisman or Bill Monroe.
Watched this a hundred times now. Never fails to blow my mind
I have just recently discovered Mr. Strings. He is a phenomenal picker. The musicians he collaborates with are phenomenal as well. Music is a blessing to this world, and to see this talented is a honor. Be grateful we are alive when they spanked the down home music we absolutely love ❤️
Me too...
And singer
This is absolutely fucking amazingly excellent!
I keep coming back to this and I'm never disappointed. These guys can play.
Respect fellas. This music takes me back to when grandpas house would turn from a quiet night of heehaw, then a knock at the door and at 10 pm grandma fired up the stove and bluegrass shook the walls till 4 , 5 am sometimes. As a kid this was a jackpot for an evening of hoping around and stompn even our youngster feet to some kick ass finger pickin 😎. Thanks fellers.
I really have to study:
UA-cam: have you heard of billy strings?
ME: 3 Hours later Addicted to billy strings, never even opened my book ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Me right now!
I bought a banjo and have no musical ability prior at 22 years old 😂 dude kills it!
IF THERE WASMUSIC LIKE THIS..IN MY WOODS..ID B OUTSIDE ALL THE TIME!!!! ✌️♥️😃
Its people like him that keeps this music going.