Superb picture which I've had as my work computer screen saver for a few days - necessary escapism... but dayum, that 'lens dot' just in the sky, middle left is all I can see now!
This show from this past Tuesday is amazing. I think coming off of Sunday at red rocks and getting a two full sets to work really made for a great night. New album this time next week.
Nugs.net it’s a pay streaming service. $10 for low res $20 for high. Free 30 day trial. Getting all of BMFS shows the next day is worth it for me but the other bands are very good as well.
Jarred and billy F have really stepped up their game in the last year or so. As good of a mandolin and banjo player as there is working today.
I've had a cursory listen to the leaked version- importcds are stalling on shipping me a nice hard copy- and wow, young Bill is easy to like. Sounds like he's pushing some things out there a bit - the title track - and then bringing the sounds back home for a while before returning to some outer reaches of string music. Lovely lovely lovely. There's one track that made me chuckle out loud but I forget the title- it starts with a couple of lines like 'I would climb the highest mountain/I would swim the deepest sea' or something, which is VERY similar to the opening lines of my fellow Kiwi Brett McKenzie's 2-hour tribute to his girlfriend Sally in Flight of the Conchords season 1. Anyone? No? Oh well. Tumbleweeds...
IBMA guitar player of the year Billy Strings wins two top bluegrass awards, drops new album - Local Spins a shame this kind of news isn’t welcome on the bluegrass thread.
Today is the day of his new release, but sadly, every store in Chicago did not receive and it is apparently backordered. Did anybody have any luck picking up the Home LP?
I preordered, received it yesterday but my local did have two copies when I went there this morning. All other shops are reporting it is on back order.
Dave sang “I’m still here”. I’m not sure if that’s a song Billy wrote but I’ve herd him play it a bunch and that’s the first I’ve heard Greensky do it. I think it’s pretty cool how everyone has started playing each others songs. I’ve heard billy do a couple greensky songs.