Music Monday April 24: Billy Strings

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Music Monday April 24: Billy Strings

There is a radio show on CBC here in Canada that occasionally does a feature called SYNTH: Songs You Need To Hear.

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Now, I can’t say to someone, “You’ll like this song” (or book for that matter) because I can’t presume that others will share my taste in music (or books), so it is safer to say, “You might like this” and if they don’t like it, so be it. Maybe you will find a new favorite.

Bluegrass. I have featured it before:

Music Monday: Songs you might want to hear – Nickel Creek

Guess what? I’m featuring it again. For me, bluegrass is the purest form of country music. Country music over the last several decades has become blurred with pop and hip-hop, which is not to say it’s not country music anymore, just that it’s not the same.

Like any music style, however, bluegrass has evolved from its humble beginnings, with younger generations taking it to new levels, but it’s still twangy, fast, and fun to listen to, and more fun to watch.

Billy Strings (William Lee Apostol) is an American guitarist and bluegrass musician. He won a Grammy Award in 2021.

-Leon

Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, and a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words.