Billy Strings Navigates Grief & Loss On Upcoming New Album ‘So Much For Goodbyes’

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Billy Strings is set to release his new album, So Much for Goodbyes, August 28 via Reprise Records. Ahead of the release, Strings has shared a new song from the project, “Burn the Other End.”

The new 16-track project produced by Strings and T Bone Burnett finds Strings channeling a deeply personal period of grief and heartbreak, and the record is accompanied by original artwork created by Strings’ late mother, Debra Apostol.

“I made this record to honor my mother,” Strings shares. “To notice and embrace this very significant period of grief in my life and make art from it. To turn my heartbreak into songs while using my guitar as a coping mechanism as I always have. It’s always been there for me to lean on through the hard times, and I figure it always will…until it’s my time to say goodbye.”

So Much For Goodbyes will be available on vinyl in black, wood grain, and sun core variants, and the records were plated and pressed at Denver’s Paramount Pressing & Plating, founded by veteran engineer Gary Salstrom and Grammy winner David Rawlings, and cut for vinyl by Jeff Powell at Take Out Vinyl in Memphis.

Strings will make his return to PBS’ legendary Austin City Limits program on July 2. His first concert since breaking his leg earlier in the year, the performance will be available to livestream via ACL TV’s YouTube and will air later this fall as part of Season 52.

So Much for Goodbyes Track List:
1. “I’m One of Those”
2. “Burn the Other End”
3. “Carry Us Home”
4. “Lay Me Down”
5. “Lucid Daydream”
6. “Mill Town Flood”
7. “Live to Tell”
8. “Bluewater Breakdown”
9. “Light the Wall”
10. “I Like Train Songs”
11. “10,000 Miles From a Friend”
12. “Still I Crash”
13. “I Wish I Wanted To”
14. “Remember to Cry”
15. “Wrestling an Angel”
16. “Debra’s Waltz”

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