I wish my dad had lived long enough to hear Billy Strings play these songs. My dad was born in 1921, he was orphaned like his brothers and sister. They were seperated from each other during that hard time. He became a B17 pilot and flew his 27 misdions over Europe and Germany. Met my mom when he was training green broke horses for a riding stable. she was an army aircorp RN. My dad could build anything and he helped a lot of people in his life. He turned me on to the carter family and all the old timey stuff. Doc and Merle Watson i remember when a tractor rolled over Merle. Jimmy Rogers. Even Dillon. He would have thought Billy was the pinnacle of country/folk etc. rock on Billy Strings.
Don’t bother going to the crossroads cause I did and when I asked the devil to make me play like Billy the devil just shook his head and walked away saying there ain’t no way
Billy manages to pull of that most rare musical feat: He is fastidiously faithful to the roots of his tradition while at the same time elevating his performance to new levels of innovation. He is reverent of the past while blazing into the future.
Feeling all alone once again when I really need a friend, I take my shower and then go for a walk. When I got in the shower the sun was shining. While in the shower, my whole sorrowful situation passed through my mind. No friends Legally blind and can't drive. Getting ready to have eye surgery and feeling overwhelmed with so much to do and remember. Missing my mom. She's been gone six years and I feel orphaned with out her. Missing my True love who loves me to but struggling with his feelings. All of this overtook me at once and I started sobbing. When I got out of the shower, we were having a downpour and I thought it was interesting how the skies were joining me in my sorrow. Thank you for playing this Billy. It's all gonna be alright. Blessings to your band, your family friends and fans, but most especially, blessings to you. You are truly an earth angel. ❤
His facebook live uploads are my favorite things. Full band stuff is fantastic of course but the facebook live stuff with a good set of headphones is pretty much like sitting down with him.
When I hear Billy play, I am reminded that he stands on the shoulders of giants. I also get the feeling that, someday, his shoulders will be the ones elevating the young hotshots. I'm old enough to have seen this play out with those who came before before and very glad for it. Watching Billy progress is an absolute joy. Don't take the opportunity for granted.
He is a disciple of Doc in every way and I'm here for it. Doc was also like a human jukebox just like Billy has worked hard to become. You could probably ask him to play literally anything and he'll know it and do it his way
My Brother's Wife died April 26th with cancer, and so I was thinking about him when I woke up this morning. She is being buried today and He is going through this time of bereavement down in Pensacola Florida where he is a teacher now on Base and He retired Master Chief of the Command thereafter 30 yrs, and I knew her pretty good because we were both stationed over in Yokosuka Japan for a few years and that is where he met her and she was a Japanese woman that lived in Tokyo. But I sent him this song in a messenger post and it is right as rain, and I hope he sees the hope of that uncloudy day and your song brings him some comfort. It is a cloudy day here but there are never any storms there.
Willie is just one of the many artist who released Unclouded day. It was written by Josiah Kelly in 1879 and was part of a new movement in Country Gospel music. It was first recorded and released by the Staples Singers in 1956 on Vee-Jay Records. That version was and inspiration to a young Bob Dylan who called it "the most mysterious thing I'd ever heard."
The following are Josiah Kelly Alwood's own words about the inspiration for the song as found in the "Christian Conservator", Feb. 26, 1896. "A Rainbow at Midnight and a Song with Morning" "It was a balmy night in August 1879, when returning from a debate in Spring Hill, Ohio, to my home in Morenci, Michigan, about 1 o'clock a.m. I saw a beautiful rainbow north by northwest agianst a dense black nimbus cloud. The sky was all perfect clear except this dark cloud which covered about forty degrees of the horizon and extented about halfway to the zenith. The phenomenon was entirely new to me and very lovely. I had traveled ten miles from the scene of mental toil, Morpheus was playing his sweetest lullaby. Another mile of travel, a few moments of time, a fellow of my size was ensconced in sweet home and wrapped in sweet sleep. A first class know-nothing till rosy-sweet morning was wide over the fields. "To awake and look abroad and rememeber the night was to be filled with sweet melody. A while at the organ brought forth a piece of muisc now known as "The Unclouded Day." A day and a half was bestowed on the melody and four stanzas."
I'm sure most here know how difficult it is to do what Billy is doing here which is holding down every part of a song, the melody, bass line, rhythm and laying down single note solos while making it so effortless and flowing perfectly. You're seeing decades of playing here considering he started at like 5 or 7? It's so amazing that he's just 28!
Who found Billy during covid? I not only found Billy but through him I found Marcus King, Molly Tuttle, Bryan Sutton and all the other monsters. I'm a blues player but I grew up with my uncles picking the Doc stuff so Billy is like a trip back to when I was a kid loving the shit out of listening to my uncles trying to pull off Beaumont Rag and singing Tom Dooley. Please Billy do more of that facebook live super up close and personal stuff!!
Saw him and the band in 2018 at a local festival, for FREE, if you can believe that....i was blown away and have been hooked ever since... Knew the others before covid---i was supposed to see molly tuttle at a local venue here in chicago last march, but it was canceled due to the shutdown....shit, the shutdown happened less than a week before the show:-( bryan sutton is on turmoil and tinfoil....grabbed that CD from the merch table right after that show in 2018!! larkin poe was supposed to play at that same festival last june, 2020, but of course that got canceled.... if you ever get a chance, give them a listen....i really started to follow them during covid, as with samantha fish..... i actually found a coupla vid's just this morning with both of them on stage together.... i'd love to see a collaboration... plenty of great, young talent out there....too bad commercial radio sucks ass and doesn't give them airplay, tho i have heard marcus king on the radio a few times....
I know there's a bunch of intermediate guitarist who will gain a ton of knowledge from this video. Billy doesn't have to hide his guitar work, he's begging you to give it a try by showing you exactly how he is playing it. Good Job! From a lifelong Willie fan and neighbor.
I'm one of those guitarists, my friend. Maybe not even intermediate, but this guy has recently inspired me SO much. He's like a Bodhisattva of the Guitar! x
I've been begging for more facebook live type stuff where it's just him pluckin out some old tunes which in my opinion are the greatest things on youtube!!!
@@beethovenian A solo record would be awesome for sure but him sitting there joking around and showing you what he's thinking about with his between-song noodling is so cool.
All I see in Billy are talent and sincerity. And when I say talent, I mean something very, very special. To say that I enjoy Billy's music, especially his original songs, is an extreme understatement.
BRAVO. When I see young people bringing old music like this back to today it gives me hope about the future young generation. This is so well done. And BTW you will skyrocket now that you have been featured in the War Room and given kudos by Steve Bannon. Thank you young man. Excellent job.
I’m a War Room fan too! And love music! First I had heard of Billy this week but I’m in now! This young man is a fantastic talent! Thankful Steve played this video all week!! I’ll be buying some albums now that’s for sure!!
I think like most of us, Billy has his favorite songs and takes a deep dive into them. No matter how long you have been playing, take that deep dive into the songs you know and feel and with what you know how to play. It will come across the same. You will inspire others as well. I love this song, and yes he can play a lot fancier than me, but the inspiration is the same. I love Billy Strings for preserving that aspect of Americana music.
@@jackfelix5140 Beautiful Appalachia. I can remember guitars and banjos coming out at family get-togethers and church picnics when I was a kid. This was one of many songs my dad (and whoever else had an instrument along) played and sang!
I'm a 50+ year-old metalhead ex-guitarist in Cornwall in the UK and just found your music and I am absolutely hooked - I can't think of how many times I have watched and listened to your live "Dust In A Baggie" with Don Julin from 2015. I'm actually very interested to know if you use a standard tuning on your guitar or do employ a specific "bluegrass" tuning? I have been a huge closet fan of bluegrass for many years (since seeing "Southern Comfort" in the early '80s) and would like to give it a go in this the autumn of my years although my stroke-ridden brain and subsequent constant brain-farts will undoubtedly try and stop me 😉
I've dabbled with the guitar for a few years. Self learning is a slow process but I enjoy the guitar and I'm sure I'm my only fan. I love bluegrass and and in aww when I watch Billy play. Your post mentioned stroke. I had a stroke last year and am saddened to think I may never play again. I'm trying to find a way. I've gotten most of my function back but my little finger and ring finger on my fretting hand don't understand how to move. Do you have any suggestions for stroke brain?
"How can anyone dislike this song?" Billy Strings's performance is excellent. The song, like all songs that express a longing to die so that an existence in some religious paradise can begin, is profoundly pitiful. Any religion that promotes songs like this is creepy.
@@gatoryak7332 no one word in this song talks about death. Just yhe lift after. And everyone has hope for the life end becuse we do not know the futures. Comming from an non-religious person with a Christian back ground that has study most religions to the understandings of theory. If you think this is the issue enough to comment on a random person simple comment. Your the issue not the song.
@@srghot18 I answered the question that you asked. If you have a problem with my answer, then that is your problem, not mine. BTW, your response to my comment is unintelligible.Would you please rewrite it, carefully, so that I might be able to gain a bit of understanding about your thoughts?
I was never a huge fan of picking and bluegrass but a year ago it all changed when I found billy. He puts a modern twist without butchering the original style. He’s gonna bring so many people over to the genre.
I'm one of those of whom you speak. I stumbled upon him a couple of years ago and was immediately hooked. Not particularly a big fan of bluegrass at the time, but I love love love talent.
Grew up listening to my grandpa singing this and many more old gospel and Hank Sr songs. Thanks for bringing back those precious memories!!!! Thankful to you sir
I am listening to you from an island in the atlantic ocean (Newfoundland). I think you are the best flat top picker i have ever seen on youtube or anywhere else! I absolutely love your stuff and only dream of being able to play as half as good as you are. Huge fan keep on keeping on my friend!
The album came out when I was in jr high and my Grandma sent me money to buy any album I wanted because she new I had a love for music. So I buy the Uncloudy album and when she asked my ma what I bought she told her a gospel album from Willie. All she new about Willie was he smoked weed. My grandma told ma “I didn’t know he converted, that is so nice”. 😂 I also got to go to very first picnic with my parents! Great times and memories living in Austin back then.
Billy, first time of hearing you are good. I love to hear good picking making a comeback with the younger generation it’s great picking also a very nice voice. I am happy I came across you on u tube.love your music ❤
@Billy Strings official Listening to you do something new and special with a genre makes me happy and a believer that music still have inventors and a bright future outside the recycled bs you hear. You are also an exeptional musician, thank you for the music, and thanks for the comment, love.
@Billy Strings official I just want to give a quote from one of the most respected , for me, humans that I in my short time on this planet, has had the pleasure to give me inspiration fior how to live my life. When music hits you it is fantastic, ’redacted version’, Bob Marley, apart from other hits, your music hit me and it is fantastic. I am from a small island in the nordic countries, I’ll give you more infomation but I’m a person who don’t necesserily need to talk about myself, that is your job as an artist.
@Billy Strings official I am texting from a small Island called Heaven. I am so glad that you recognise me and my love for you. You are one of the best guitarist I have heard,. I have listened to a lot of guitarists and you are exceptional, but I know you know that. Love.
Billy. Just wow. You always make every song you sing yours. That was fantastic. Not surprised. Thank you Billy. Your music helped 2020 be more bearable for me
I found Billy Strings because he fell into my TH-cam recommended videos. How the hell is this kid not splashed all over the radio? Jesus he is so damn good.
@@Zoetropeification Agreed. But he is so good you would think he would be there. I looked at his concert dates and I can not make it to any of them. Maybe one of these days.
If Billy played at church, id go to church.
I wish my dad had lived long enough to hear Billy Strings play these songs. My dad was born in 1921, he was orphaned like his brothers and sister. They were seperated from each other during that hard time. He became a B17 pilot and flew his 27 misdions over Europe and Germany. Met my mom when he was training green broke horses for a riding stable. she was an army aircorp RN. My dad could build anything and he helped a lot of people in his life. He turned me on to the carter family and all the old timey stuff. Doc and Merle Watson i remember when a tractor rolled over Merle. Jimmy Rogers. Even Dillon. He would have thought Billy was the pinnacle of country/folk etc. rock on Billy Strings.
This wonderful song is in Public Domain, written by Josiah Kelley Atwood in 1879. Love this, Billy!
It’s a beautiful song
I've been picking bluegrass for 56 years...just once for 5 minutes before I die I'd like to play like that...WOW!
I hear that! !!!!
Bet you hold your own anyways..
Don’t bother going to the crossroads cause I did and when I asked the devil to make me play like Billy the devil just shook his head and walked away saying there ain’t no way
That's the spirit!
I hear you, but come on, he's not like the second coming...
My stepfather passed away today. Thank you for this Billy.
RIP Papa
So very sorry for your loss
❤️
Sending love your way. ❤️
@@spawn1086 thank you.
@@LoriWatson11 thank you.
Billy manages to pull of that most rare musical feat: He is fastidiously faithful to the roots of his tradition while at the same time elevating his performance to new levels of innovation. He is reverent of the past while blazing into the future.
Nice comment and so on the money.
yeah you nailed it with the comment Billy is special in the best of ways
contemporary while at the same time traditional. Very hard to pull that off. He nails it every time.
Absolutely! You’ve described his music so well. Billy is a young man but he has an “old soul.”
Peter Weisz, so beautifully said and so accurate. Thank you and thank Billy.
Billy is the greatest of the current generation and will likely become the standard for future flatpickers .... supplanting the great Doc Watson.
Willie wasn't born when this song was written.
Sssshhhhh 😂😂😂
Billy sure can pick the hell out of a guitar but man he’s got one hell of a voice too
I thought I observed alone
Very rare talent for sure...
Hes got it all
#Facts #YouKnowDamnRight
Amen! 🙏🏻 #BillyStringsTheGoat
Yes he does. He's got the complete package. I'm anxious to see where he goes in the future. He has talent beyond belief.
Feeling all alone once again when I really need a friend, I take my shower and then go for a walk.
When I got in the shower the sun was shining.
While in the shower, my whole sorrowful situation passed through my mind.
No friends
Legally blind and can't drive.
Getting ready to have eye surgery and feeling overwhelmed with so much to do and remember.
Missing my mom.
She's been gone six years and I feel orphaned with out her.
Missing my True love who loves me to but struggling with his feelings.
All of this overtook me at once and I started sobbing.
When I got out of the shower, we were having a downpour and I thought it was interesting how the skies were joining me in my sorrow.
Thank you for playing this Billy.
It's all gonna be alright.
Blessings to your band, your family friends and fans, but most especially, blessings to you. You are truly an earth angel.
❤
I feel what you feel most times too, dear crystal, he sings to soul and reality, Billy is a blessing.
Where are you texting from?
I'm a simple woman. I see a video of Billy Strings covering Willie Nelson, I click on it.
His facebook live uploads are my favorite things. Full band stuff is fantastic of course but the facebook live stuff with a good set of headphones is pretty much like sitting down with him.
@@K131399 I don't have Facebook :( but no doubt that his lives are a good time!
@@solztice6460 They're on youtube just search Billy facebook live and enoy.
I actually admire simple women,,but I guess this stuff is for hard women lol.
@Billy Strings official It's a trip watching you dude! You got me playing hard again.
The GOAT singing a song by THE GOATFATHER. How does it get better??? Love you Billy!!!
Ha ! The Goatfather!
Greatest Of All Time !!
Michael Jordan is a GOAT. Mike Tyson is a GOAT.
@@tonymyers862I'll compliment talent any way I please. Billy String is the best flat pickin guitar player on this planet. Bar none!!!
@Texan waffen Billy Strings is the GOAT! . My opinion. Deal with it.
When I hear Billy play, I am reminded that he stands on the shoulders of giants. I also get the feeling that, someday, his shoulders will be the ones elevating the young hotshots. I'm old enough to have seen this play out with those who came before before and very glad for it. Watching Billy progress is an absolute joy. Don't take the opportunity for granted.
That was beautifully written. I haven't seen him live yet...
He is a disciple of Doc in every way and I'm here for it. Doc was also like a human jukebox just like Billy has worked hard to become. You could probably ask him to play literally anything and he'll know it and do it his way
My Brother's Wife died April 26th with cancer, and so I was thinking about him when I woke up this morning. She is being buried today and He is going through this time of bereavement down in Pensacola Florida where he is a teacher now on Base and He retired Master Chief of the Command thereafter 30 yrs, and I knew her pretty good because we were both stationed over in Yokosuka Japan for a few years and that is where he met her and she was a Japanese woman that lived in Tokyo. But I sent him this song in a messenger post and it is right as rain, and I hope he sees the hope of that uncloudy day and your song brings him some comfort. It is a cloudy day here but there are never any storms there.
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Willie is just one of the many artist who released Unclouded day. It was written by Josiah Kelly in 1879 and was part of a new movement in Country Gospel music. It was first recorded and released by the Staples Singers in 1956 on Vee-Jay Records. That version was and inspiration to a young Bob Dylan who called it "the most mysterious thing I'd ever heard."
Josiah Kelley Alwood in Morenci Michigan.
THANK YOU. ✌😘
This is greatness
The following are Josiah Kelly Alwood's own words about the inspiration for the song as found in the "Christian Conservator", Feb. 26, 1896.
"A Rainbow at Midnight and a Song with Morning"
"It was a balmy night in August 1879, when returning from a debate in Spring Hill, Ohio, to my home in Morenci, Michigan, about 1 o'clock a.m. I saw a beautiful rainbow north by northwest agianst a dense black nimbus cloud. The sky was all perfect clear except this dark cloud which covered about forty degrees of the horizon and extented about halfway to the zenith. The phenomenon was entirely new to me and very lovely. I had traveled ten miles from the scene of mental toil, Morpheus was playing his sweetest lullaby. Another mile of travel, a few moments of time, a fellow of my size was ensconced in sweet home and wrapped in sweet sleep. A first class know-nothing till rosy-sweet morning was wide over the fields.
"To awake and look abroad and rememeber the night was to be filled with sweet melody. A while at the organ brought forth a piece of muisc now known as "The Unclouded Day." A day and a half was bestowed on the melody and four stanzas."
1879 SONG SUCKED. I WAS THERE
I'm sure most here know how difficult it is to do what Billy is doing here which is holding down every part of a song, the melody, bass line, rhythm and laying down single note solos while making it so effortless and flowing perfectly. You're seeing decades of playing here considering he started at like 5 or 7? It's so amazing that he's just 28!
Who found Billy during covid? I not only found Billy but through him I found Marcus King, Molly Tuttle, Bryan Sutton and all the other monsters. I'm a blues player but I grew up with my uncles picking the Doc stuff so Billy is like a trip back to when I was a kid loving the shit out of listening to my uncles trying to pull off Beaumont Rag and singing Tom Dooley. Please Billy do more of that facebook live super up close and personal stuff!!
His music got me through the Covid nonsense and a brutal winter. I'm now a lifelong fan.
I heard of him before Covid, but didn't really check him out till it hit. So glad I got into him.
Saw him and the band in 2018 at a local festival, for FREE, if you can believe that....i was blown away and have been hooked ever since... Knew the others before covid---i was supposed to see molly tuttle at a local venue here in chicago last march, but it was canceled due to the shutdown....shit, the shutdown happened less than a week before the show:-( bryan sutton is on turmoil and tinfoil....grabbed that CD from the merch table right after that show in 2018!! larkin poe was supposed to play at that same festival last june, 2020, but of course that got canceled.... if you ever get a chance, give them a listen....i really started to follow them during covid, as with samantha fish..... i actually found a coupla vid's just this morning with both of them on stage together.... i'd love to see a collaboration...
plenty of great, young talent out there....too bad commercial radio sucks ass and doesn't give them airplay, tho i have heard marcus king on the radio a few times....
Found him many years ago, performing with Don Julin. Where were you guys?😁
@@alan4sure He just started showing up on my youtube page which is odd that he didn't show up earlier because I watch a lot of music stuff on youtube.
I don’t care what song Billy does...it’s always GREAT....
💞💞
He's superbly great I must attest ,, where are you texting from?
Amen!
My man won a Grammy! Whooo hooo
Please don't stop what you are doing. You have some serious talent son.
I swear that every cover he does is better that the original. What a talent.
Well I'd say you were wrong as fuck but yea it sounds pretty good...
I'd like to go to the place where no storm clouds rise, yeah I'd like an uncloudy day...
Get right with the Lord and you will.
How about a full gospel album Billy 😁👍 it would be great
ABSOLUTELY!!! AMEN!!
How 'bout him and the boys put out a Klezmer album?
TOTALLY!!! 🙏
I’d preorder that for MSRP.
Seconded.
I sure wish he'd make a CD of spirituals/gospel. He's just fantastic.
I want this played at my funeral
I know there's a bunch of intermediate guitarist who will gain a ton of knowledge from this video.
Billy doesn't have to hide his guitar work, he's begging you to give it a try by showing you exactly how he is playing it.
Good Job!
From a lifelong Willie fan and neighbor.
So true William
I'm one of those guitarists, my friend. Maybe not even intermediate, but this guy has recently inspired me SO much. He's like a Bodhisattva of the Guitar! x
Wow! Good one there!
This is what you get when you pick one thing to do and give it your all, and practice, practice, and practice.
Happy Birthday Willie !!!
I press the like button before listening. I already know that good stuff are coming. Cheers from Brasil.
We've gat a connection
Lol,,cus I literally did same
Come to brazil
I cried when I heard this song because it's my grandpa's favorite song and he died :(
Billy what???
Get it son they shout!!
Billy..”done”
May you live forever. May you cross that river.
I just came home from a funeral. I couldn't think of a better song to pop up on my feed. Thanks brother.
Sorry to hear it brother
Thanks, man.
@@randysimmons8684 do you mind if I ask who passed?
What a group of musicians!! I had thought Doc Watson's music had died with him - but Billy has revived it, with all the magnificent picking in tact.
I've been begging for more facebook live type stuff where it's just him pluckin out some old tunes which in my opinion are the greatest things on youtube!!!
Agreed! A solo record would be amazing too!
@@beethovenian A solo record would be awesome for sure but him sitting there joking around and showing you what he's thinking about with his between-song noodling is so cool.
Couldn't agree mmore. I'll join the begging
@@bigchestflex Count me in, too.
All I see in Billy are talent and sincerity. And when I say talent, I mean something very, very special. To say that I enjoy Billy's music, especially his original songs, is an extreme understatement.
We both see same thing dear.
He's just so good, have you seen him live before?
Just heard this song for the first time on Steve Bannon’s War Room show. Great tune wish I can pick it up on ITunes.
Same. Great song.
He has a unique voice
Willie + Billy = ❤️
Yep, I gotta agree with that!
The realest combination ever
Very nice, gospel music is the song of the soul, keep it up
Gonna play this for my Dad. Thanks
BRAVO. When I see young people bringing old music like this back to today it gives me hope about the future young generation. This is so well done. And BTW you will skyrocket now that you have been featured in the War Room and given kudos by Steve Bannon. Thank you young man. Excellent job.
he's already there take a look at some of his live concerts
I’m a War Room fan too! And love music! First I had heard of Billy this week but I’m in now! This young man is a fantastic talent! Thankful Steve played this video all week!! I’ll be buying some albums now that’s for sure!!
Top of the line! I can’t put my finger on it, but I hear Doc Watson in Billy Stings.
I can be having a crappy day and watch you pick and a calm will come over me. Thank you for sharing your gift.
Same here bro
It's been a rough day for my family. This is not only beautiful, but timely. Best wishes to you Billy.
Young old people. Fan since you're video of your couch performing dust in a baggie. Great music from a Southern Man
Mighty fine mighty fine!
Billy knows the hallowed ground
I think billy knows something we don't..😢
Billy strings met the devil at a cross-roads at midnight
@@residentmusician Billy Strings is practicing while you and I are writing TH-cam comments.
I think like most of us, Billy has his favorite songs and takes a deep dive into them. No matter how long you have been playing, take that deep dive into the songs you know and feel and with what you know how to play. It will come across the same. You will inspire others as well. I love this song, and yes he can play a lot fancier than me, but the inspiration is the same. I love Billy Strings for preserving that aspect of Americana music.
I love Billy Strings!
Song from my childhood. Tears in my eyes thinking of loved ones who’ve gone on to find their “unclouded days’. love this version! 🙏 🙏 🙏
Ya it gives me similar feelings and memories too, Billy is just as good.
Where are you texting from?
@@jackfelix5140 Beautiful Appalachia. I can remember guitars and banjos coming out at family get-togethers and church picnics when I was a kid. This was one of many songs my dad (and whoever else had an instrument along) played and sang!
@Billy Strings official You’re very welcome! Keep the incredible music coming!
@@jennifermaxfieldore4609 where are u texting from gorgeous lady?
So soothing for my weary soul...beautiful!!!
See ya in Louisville
That Fiddle Player is the icing on the Cake
I'm a 50+ year-old metalhead ex-guitarist in Cornwall in the UK and just found your music and I am absolutely hooked - I can't think of how many times I have watched and listened to your live "Dust In A Baggie" with Don Julin from 2015. I'm actually very interested to know if you use a standard tuning on your guitar or do employ a specific "bluegrass" tuning? I have been a huge closet fan of bluegrass for many years (since seeing "Southern Comfort" in the early '80s) and would like to give it a go in this the autumn of my years although my stroke-ridden brain and subsequent constant brain-farts will undoubtedly try and stop me 😉
I've dabbled with the guitar for a few years. Self learning is a slow process but I enjoy the guitar and I'm sure I'm my only fan. I love bluegrass and and in aww when I watch Billy play. Your post mentioned stroke. I had a stroke last year and am saddened to think I may never play again. I'm trying to find a way. I've gotten most of my function back but my little finger and ring finger on my fretting hand don't understand how to move. Do you have any suggestions for stroke brain?
Willie wrote it, but sir you have owned it. It is yours now.
This boy has got it going on....
100$ for Apple valley shows a bit pricey....being a local how about the guest list....got purple kush....
Beautiful playing on a beautiful Martin by a beautiful soul
💞 so sweet
This song is from 1879 . I know Willie is old , but he's not that old . It's an old hymn .
How can anyone dislike this song?
"How can anyone dislike this song?" Billy Strings's performance is excellent. The song, like all songs that express a longing to die so that an existence in some religious paradise can begin, is profoundly pitiful. Any religion that promotes songs like this is creepy.
@@gatoryak7332 no one word in this song talks about death. Just yhe lift after. And everyone has hope for the life end becuse we do not know the futures.
Comming from an non-religious person with a Christian back ground that has study most religions to the understandings of theory.
If you think this is the issue enough to comment on a random person simple comment. Your the issue not the song.
@@srghot18 I answered the question that you asked. If you have a problem with my answer, then that is your problem, not mine. BTW, your response to my comment is unintelligible.Would you please rewrite it, carefully, so that I might be able to gain a bit of understanding about your thoughts?
@@srghot18 I don't like it
Made me tear up. I'm a long way from my Blue Ridge Mountains
Gonna play this for our family reunion to honor our lost one's this month of may the 15th ☮👏
Thankyou Billy
That will be amazing, it's well deserved
@@jackfelix5140 We did it last weekend in the hills of Tennessee and not a dry eye in the entire crowd
@@danroose3813 that's awesome, hope it went well for ya?
damn Billy...you are SO good...
Damn good,, you play too?
I hope to have a guitar one day like Willie Nelson's. It's a legend on it's own.
My guitar has stories, his have sagas.
the 4 dislikes are die hard atheist who just can't appreciate music for being music.
Yes!!!!!!
Maybe my new favorite, absolutely love billy
I was never a huge fan of picking and bluegrass but a year ago it all changed when I found billy. He puts a modern twist without butchering the original style. He’s gonna bring so many people over to the genre.
He's really good at what he does, he's great.
I'm one of those of whom you speak. I stumbled upon him a couple of years ago and was immediately hooked. Not particularly a big fan of bluegrass at the time, but I love love love talent.
I was here !
How about a dream lineup. Willie Nelson and Family with Billy Strings and his dad. Would pay money to see that concert even online
Grew up listening to my grandpa singing this and many more old gospel and Hank Sr songs. Thanks for bringing back those precious memories!!!! Thankful to you sir
I’ve never met Billy, but I love him like a brother.
I am listening to you from an island in the atlantic ocean (Newfoundland). I think you are the best flat top picker i have ever seen on youtube or anywhere else! I absolutely love your stuff and only dream of being able to play as half as good as you are. Huge fan keep on keeping on my friend!
The album came out when I was in jr high and my Grandma sent me money to buy any album I wanted because she new I had a love for music. So I buy the Uncloudy album and when she asked my ma what I bought she told her a gospel album from Willie. All she new about Willie was he smoked weed. My grandma told ma “I didn’t know he converted, that is so nice”. 😂 I also got to go to very first picnic with my parents! Great times and memories living in Austin back then.
Funny,,is doesn't really matter though
Woke up with this song in my head today. This is the first video I've seen that gave the song any semblance of life.
This guy is unbelievable. Some one to carry on bluegrass. I hope all the greats that are gone can hear him.
One of my favourite songs EVER written. Thanks Billy. Freakin' Awesome!
Same here
Billy, first time of hearing you are good. I love to hear good picking making a comeback with the younger generation it’s great picking also a very nice voice. I am happy I came across you on u tube.love your music ❤
Best intro ever... It's someone's cloudy day billy and in accordance they'll smile or cry... Peace from the southeast....
You do the best gospel
Beautiful and very meaningful. Thank you. ❤
BillyStrings is someone I love.
@Billy Strings official Listening to you do something new and special with a genre makes me happy and a believer that music still have inventors and a bright future outside the recycled bs you hear. You are also an exeptional musician, thank you for the music, and thanks for the comment, love.
@Billy Strings official I just want to give a quote from one of the most respected , for me, humans that I in my short time on this planet, has had the pleasure to give me inspiration fior how to live my life. When music hits you it is fantastic, ’redacted version’, Bob Marley, apart from other hits, your music hit me and it is fantastic. I am from a small island in the nordic countries, I’ll give you more infomation but I’m a person who don’t necesserily need to talk about myself, that is your job as an artist.
@Billy Strings official I am texting from a small Island called Heaven. I am so glad that you recognise me and my love for you. You are one of the best guitarist I have heard,. I have listened to a lot of guitarists and you are exceptional, but I know you know that. Love.
@Billy Strings official I am an islander, I am so glad that you are what you sing, a humble loving person, thank you.
Just when you thought he could not get better.
Don’t believe but dam they have some great songs!
When everybody thought AI was taking over and musical instruments were becoming redundant, Billy has become a hope for mankind!! 🤎
So true,
Thanks again Billy. Always impressed with how much honor there is when you cover songs.
Hi Jolie , a big fan?
I am so happy I discovered Billy and the boys
No storm clouds rise ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🙌
Greetings from Raleigh County West Virginia ✌️
Happy Birthday Willie! ❤️
75 years of talent wrapped up in a 28 yr old man.
Billy. Just wow. You always make every song you sing yours. That was fantastic. Not surprised. Thank you Billy. Your music helped 2020 be more bearable for me
Great performance Billy !!! 👏👏👏
Really great
Hey dude!
Brings me back to singing with my sisters in church. Beautifully done, young man.
I found Billy Strings because he fell into my TH-cam recommended videos. How the hell is this kid not splashed all over the radio? Jesus he is so damn good.
A Howard: He's probably selling out more concerts this summer than anyone. Free radio these days is not worth the nothing that we pay for it.
@@Zoetropeification Agreed. But he is so good you would think he would be there. I looked at his concert dates and I can not make it to any of them. Maybe one of these days.
Way up yonder, ya big ol heart! 🌂🦅
This is the way I like you best Billy.
I wish he did more bluegrass gospel. He does it so well!!!
Way to go Sir !👍👍👍