It was Oct 3, 2013; a typical weekend evening at Short's Brewery in Bellaire, MI and we were waiting for a table in a packed house. A couple of locals waved my wife and I over to their table and said we could sit with them near the stage. They said, "You're in luck, Bill Strings is playing tonight"; I asked, who is Billy Strings? They said he was a local bluegrass musician and he's pretty good. He was turning 21 on that day and was enjoying a Short's beer before he went on with Don Julian who was accompanying him on mandolin. My wife and I never listened to bluegrass so we were hesitant whether we'd be staying into the show. My god, my jaw dropped from the moment he started playing. What a talent! He single-handedly turned me on to bluegrass that evening and we have enjoyed following his journey into stardom! We wish you continued success William!
If these two joined as a duo for a side project doing exactly what they’re doing here , I’d be a super fan . I could listen to this all day. Blue grass for new world
Two of the best in the entire world playing the most technically complicated bluegrass piece ever recorded without sheet music or electronics and listen to the less than enthusiastic audience response at the end.
This is an "In" studio performance! There is no "Audience" just the small crew working to broadcast the show and the three host.The same audience they have every Saturday morning for the musical guest.Again there is "No" studio audience! You should be happy CBS even has music of this quality on at all,even if there isn't a large audience.
Came for Billy, but left wondering, "Why the hell wasn't I notified about this Chris Thile person?" Which was, basically, like discovering Billy all over again.
Any legitimate work they do together will go down as some of the most significant of B Stings’s career. It’s so unbelievable musical. Reminds me of jazz playing
@@jeffwolinski2659 I'm not sure the crew would know how to mic them. Just imagine, though - a Nickel Creek 'set', Punch Brothers 'set' and then a Fleck, Hull, Strings, Daves 'set'. For crying out loud, we could have the largest Fiddle Tunes Request Time ever.
So proud of you Billy!! I remember seeing you at red mesa in boyne city about 8 years ago or so now and to see how far you have come is amazing!! Love you man! Keep up the great work.
This is absolutely absurd. That was fantastically face melting and then it's like four people clapping in the studio on CBS Mornings. What is going on.
My only critique of the whole thing, is on the audience's applause at the end. You have to let that ring out :( Even Chris says "THAT was pretty cool," at the end
How... how many melodies did they have going at once? I'm not a musician, but it sounded like there were like, 4 or 5 songs going on at once that just happened to all work together perfectly. There a technical term for whatever subtle alchemy that was?
I've always thought Chris Thile was good lead singer, but the best accompanying singer I have ever heard. The way he meshes his voice with whomever he is working with is amazing.
Perhaps the worlds best mandolin player and flatpicking bluegrass guitar player showing the rest of the world how it's done. Pretty damn good singers as well.
Thile may be the best mando player to ever live. Billy has come a long way from the couch and green shirt guy. You absolutely have to be on your A game to play with Thile. The timing changes are insane and I don’t think he intentionally does it. It just part of him.
I'm a huge Billy fan, and he may get there, but if pressed I would say Brian Sutton is the best (living) bluegrass guitarist. And Tony Rice is the best of all time (RIP). Pretty comfortable saying Thile is the best ever bluegrass mando player though.
@@beastinthesky6774 Second this! Absolutely. Tony Rice's ear was open to some broader harmonic content from his love of jazz for sure. The GOAT, but Billy is def no slouch!
All Billy knows is A game qaulity. I love Chris and his legacy, but it’s not Billy who went looking to play with Chris. Billy is bringing sweeping change to music in general. TY Chris and Billy for this ripping classic 🎶 ❤️
Watch how they just drop into the zone and bounce off each other from about 2:15-3:40. A masterclass in listening as much as it a masterclass in virtuosity.
Strong vocals & pickin', by Billy & Chris for this song. Yes, I would love to see both of these performers in a SuperBowl half-time show. I like Hip-Hop and Rap as much so why give some Country-Blues... Blue Grass their dues. I say yes!
It’s more intense when they do the full bluegrass set a Lincoln Center. It’s almost like Thile is saying “ok let’s see what you really got”. Billy as good as he is you can tell he’s going places that he didn’t know he had in him. It was fun to watch if you know what to look for. It was all I had hoped it would be bud sadly all we have is phone recordings.
There is something magical about Chris Thile's playing where it comes across as simultaneously so precise as to be continually rehearsed, while also feeling totally improvised and perfectly melded to those he is accompanying.
As far as I am concerned, an instrumentalist is really only as good as their improvisational skills. Being able to know your instrument well enough to improvise and play whatever you hear in your head perfectly is a sign of complete mastery of an instrument. Anyone can practice the same piece of music for years in order to play it, and while that does have its place in music, improvisation is where a player's skill level is truly revealed. The best of the best are able to improvise stuff that most of us could never even write. Improvisational abilities are just the ultimate litmus test, imo.
It was Oct 3, 2013; a typical weekend evening at Short's Brewery in Bellaire, MI and we were waiting for a table in a packed house. A couple of locals waved my wife and I over to their table and said we could sit with them near the stage. They said, "You're in luck, Bill Strings is playing tonight"; I asked, who is Billy Strings? They said he was a local bluegrass musician and he's pretty good. He was turning 21 on that day and was enjoying a Short's beer before he went on with Don Julian who was accompanying him on mandolin. My wife and I never listened to bluegrass so we were hesitant whether we'd be staying into the show. My god, my jaw dropped from the moment he started playing. What a talent! He single-handedly turned me on to bluegrass that evening and we have enjoyed following his journey into stardom! We wish you continued success William!
Wow! What a treat! Sometimes it's the unplanned, naive discoveries that are the very best.
That is a true “I knew him when” moment!
If these two joined as a duo for a side project doing exactly what they’re doing here , I’d be a super fan . I could listen to this all day. Blue grass for new world
Two of the best in the entire world playing the most technically complicated bluegrass piece ever recorded without sheet music or electronics and listen to the less than enthusiastic audience response at the end.
This is an "In" studio performance! There is no "Audience" just the small crew working to broadcast the show and the three host.The same audience they have every Saturday morning for the musical guest.Again there is "No" studio audience! You should be happy CBS even has music of this quality on at all,even if there isn't a large audience.
“Most technically complicated bluegrass piece”? No. Fantastic improvisation over a simple song.
Bluegrass / Jazz? Or the end of labels? These two are amazing.🤩🥰
Came for Billy, but left wondering, "Why the hell wasn't I notified about this Chris Thile person?" Which was, basically, like discovering Billy all over again.
Yea, best mandolin player ever.
Start with Nickel Creek's first album, continue forward until done.
Any legitimate work they do together will go down as some of the most significant of B Stings’s career. It’s so unbelievable musical. Reminds me of jazz playing
100%
Chris Thile and Billy Strings have a chemistry like I've never seen..they are truly amazing!
Let's start a petition for Thile to be given creative control of next years Super Bowl Halftime Show.
Real musicians playing real instruments?!? The stadium may explode.
@@jeffwolinski2659 I'm not sure the crew would know how to mic them. Just imagine, though - a Nickel Creek 'set', Punch Brothers 'set' and then a Fleck, Hull, Strings, Daves 'set'. For crying out loud, we could have the largest Fiddle Tunes Request Time ever.
A reason to actually watch the halftime show? Mind. Explode. Idea. Best.
Totally agree! No lip synching needed.
@@tomharvard8286 I’m sure Thile was amenable to any song list. He’s impossibly adept at every style and genre that exists.
Musical perfection. PERIOD.
Wow, I’d have to say that was probably one of the best performances I’ve seen on that show…. Beautiful ride into the spirit world…💙🦉💙
This is so good it hurts..
Two masters of their craft.
So proud of you Billy!! I remember seeing you at red mesa in boyne city about 8 years ago or so now and to see how far you have come is amazing!! Love you man! Keep up the great work.
Chris is making Billy work to keep up and I’m sure he loves the challenge
Wow! Just WOW!
Love love love this
Rip it Billy !!!!!!
Just keeps getting better and better
Mind-blowing talent
I could watch these 2 jam all day!!!
Amazingly brilliant !!!!!!
Terrific, glad I lived long enough to see Bluegrass music evolve in this good way...
Amazing
This is so awesome!
Both are amazing
Pure Bliss!
They are like a modern Bill Monroe and Jimmy Martin
Glad these two finally got together.
So awesome! Two pickers at the top of their game. What a delight. Thanks, guys.
excellent
That dude almost bit billy like 15 times
😂
Drop that album already! We need more!!😮
Long live BMFS! 🐐🎶🙌
Incredible!
Wow
Holy moly, that is as good as it gets
Goodness.
Perfect
Bravo!!
That was absolutely phenomenal.
Neither has ever sounded better, real bluegrass alchemy.
💯🎯
God bless America 🎉
Ah, heaven!!
incredible
Finally Talent on T.V........ I must be dead ...
Holy crap!
Omg......yes
Billy reminds me of a bluegrass Angus Young.
Interesting. I used to see Billy play a number of years ago when he was first busting out and I thought that about him then.
Good one
This is absolutely absurd. That was fantastically face melting and then it's like four people clapping in the studio on CBS Mornings. What is going on.
Please put a band together!!!!!!
That middle section is 🤌🏻🤯
virtuous
♥️♥️
This is better than butts.
My only critique of the whole thing, is on the audience's applause at the end. You have to let that ring out :(
Even Chris says "THAT was pretty cool," at the end
❤️
How... how many melodies did they have going at once?
I'm not a musician, but it sounded like there were like, 4 or 5 songs going on at once that just happened to all work together perfectly.
There a technical term for whatever subtle alchemy that was?
I'm seeing a Renewal 2024 to top the past 3. BMFS 33
Phenominal musicianship. Hey guys calling for Super Bowl STFU. Just stop it. Why would you wish to ruin such a thing of beauty.
From Patti Cornell
Chris Thile truly becomes one with whoever he plays with. Such a rare a beautiful ability. God bless both these men.
They appear blessed already lol
I've always thought Chris Thile was good lead singer, but the best accompanying singer I have ever heard. The way he meshes his voice with whomever he is working with is amazing.
Have you seen the Goat Rodeo Sessions? Thile with Yo Yo....
what a dream collab! Hope they do an album together
This
Exactly this.
Lot of videos of them together have come out in the past few days, somethings brewing.
@@andishawjfac fingers crossed!
100%!! They could be the Skaggs/Rice of this era. Please make an album together, boys! Heck, make it a double album. Can't wait.
This may be the best thing ever to air on CBS
Absolutely!
100%
Perhaps the worlds best mandolin player and flatpicking bluegrass guitar player showing the rest of the world how it's done. Pretty damn good singers as well.
Thile may be the best mando player to ever live. Billy has come a long way from the couch and green shirt guy. You absolutely have to be on your A game to play with Thile. The timing changes are insane and I don’t think he intentionally does it. It just part of him.
There is no perhaps about it. This is generational talent.....
I'm a huge Billy fan, and he may get there, but if pressed I would say Brian Sutton is the best (living) bluegrass guitarist. And Tony Rice is the best of all time (RIP). Pretty comfortable saying Thile is the best ever bluegrass mando player though.
@@beastinthesky6774 Second this! Absolutely. Tony Rice's ear was open to some broader harmonic content from his love of jazz for sure. The GOAT, but Billy is def no slouch!
All Billy knows is A game qaulity. I love Chris and his legacy, but it’s not Billy who went looking to play with Chris. Billy is bringing sweeping change to music in general. TY Chris and Billy for this ripping classic 🎶 ❤️
Oh Billy, all of us are so gosh dang happy for you....
Can we please replace what i routinely hear on the airwaves with this?
Real music, real talent, real heart.
It’s out there just gotta poke around
Look up live from here, hours of Chris thile
Two pickers at the top of the game, doesn’t get much better!
That's just sick. They've played together for 4 days. I finally have faith in our future. Wow
So sick.
Turn the tv and radio off man just gotta poke around
Or apparently just turn on cbs!@erniecf
@@erniecfyupp
If you all get the chance, go see Billy Strings. Life changing.✌️🇺🇲
Watch how they just drop into the zone and bounce off each other from about 2:15-3:40. A masterclass in listening as much as it a masterclass in virtuosity.
Up there with Al Dimeola and Pacho DeLucia.
Best thing I've ever heard and seen! I had full on chills and goosebumps!
I agree with you.
+Bela Fleck +Michael Cleveland please and thank you.
My brain would explode lol go easy
Yes!! This needs to happen.
Pretty sure they play together on “Slippery Eel” off Bela’s last album
Great entertainment Keep up the great work CBS . You can hear Doc Watson and Bill Monroe for sure.
BMFS
Damn! Two of my favourite guys playing the hell out of mandolin and guitar. Brilliant stuff!
I'd like to see Rick Beato interview Chris Thile
I have doubts Rick even knows who he is. He's barely dipped his toes into the Americana genre (Bela Fleck, and that's about it).
Strong vocals & pickin', by Billy & Chris for this song.
Yes, I would love to see both of these performers in a SuperBowl half-time show.
I like Hip-Hop and Rap as much so why give some Country-Blues... Blue Grass their dues. I say yes!
I love the way these two push each other until they're hanging on for all they have.
Indeed! Awesome to behold.
It’s more intense when they do the full bluegrass set a Lincoln Center. It’s almost like Thile is saying “ok let’s see what you really got”. Billy as good as he is you can tell he’s going places that he didn’t know he had in him. It was fun to watch if you know what to look for. It was all I had hoped it would be bud sadly all we have is phone recordings.
Perfect description of what I just watched. 🙂
Billy is doing the collabo heavy nowadays. Keep it up!
Actually he has for quite a while. Check out grey fox fest.
YEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW good job fellas
hot picking on some old tunes this is perfection!!!!!!!!!
More of this CBS!! See you in Nashville Billy 😍🤩😍🤩😍
Billy Strings is truly a special person. Awesome seeing Thile with him.
There is something magical about Chris Thile's playing where it comes across as simultaneously so precise as to be continually rehearsed, while also feeling totally improvised and perfectly melded to those he is accompanying.
As far as I am concerned, an instrumentalist is really only as good as their improvisational skills. Being able to know your instrument well enough to improvise and play whatever you hear in your head perfectly is a sign of complete mastery of an instrument. Anyone can practice the same piece of music for years in order to play it, and while that does have its place in music, improvisation is where a player's skill level is truly revealed. The best of the best are able to improvise stuff that most of us could never even write. Improvisational abilities are just the ultimate litmus test, imo.
These are two of my favorite musicians. What a treat! I sincerely hope the Live From Here format can return somewhere, somehow.
These 2 guys could record a historic record in no time at all, a few days at most, probably already have.
What a great duet. It's so rare to see two topnotch players that sing as well as they play.
BMFS!!!!
This was on CBS?!?!?! Clearly an accident. Mindblowing skill and precision.
Loved this
Awesome bluegrass jazz and blues SKILL
That was absolutely brilliant. Great chemistry between
Psychedelic bluegrass on CBS?
Chris doesn't have to take a backseat to anyone on this planet. What a person.
I love this music. I heard bluegrass music a lot growing up as my grandfather played it along with his fiddle and banjo
Fire!❤
Imagine if they actually practiced together on a regular basis....
Unreal
You guys rock and I think you are the greatest.❤❤😂🎉
Sounds great. Billy capo’s at 7th fret to play C shapes up high in Key of G on a D-28 (no cut-out). He’s a brave guy.
Damn, someone woke up one Saturday morning, turned on the tv, then had their face melted off. Poor soul!
Can’t get enough! ❤️❤️❤️