Artist:
Billy Strings
Genre:
Pop/Rock
Country
Total Time:
74:40
Record Label:
Reprise
Purchase Album:
CD, Amazon Music, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
August 28, 2026
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
Billy Strings
Genre:
Pop/Rock
Country
Total Time:
74:40
Record Label:
Reprise
Purchase Album:
CD, Amazon Music, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
August 28, 2026
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
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Product Description: Billy Strings’ mama is on his mind. The bluegrass prodigy’s mother died in 2025 from a drug overdose, and So Much for Goodbyes, his fifth studio album, is a portrait of grief in all its layered complications. It’s hard enough to mourn the loss of a beloved parent, but Strings—who left home at 13 because his parents were consumed by their addictions, and ruminated on the impact of this on 2017’s Turmoil & Tinfoil—refuses to whitewash the thornier aspects of his relationship with his mother.
Instead, So Much for Goodbyes tells the truth: that flawed parents, and people, are deserving of love and fond remembrance, in spite of their shortcomings; that devastation can infuriate, paralyze, and humble anyone at any stage of the grieving process; that picking an acoustic guitar is a meditative practice with the power to soothe and heal.
Often, Strings’ furious fingers hold a mirror up to his emotional state, whether he’s frustrated with fate (“Lucid Daydream”), admitting his nostalgic tendency to try to “bring back old memories for one reason or another I let go” (“I’m One of Those”), or playing for the sake of simply carrying on through the impossible (“I Like Train Songs”).
Death—that of his mother, but also the pondering of his own—looms large, and on “Lay Me Down,” he invites bluegrass legend Del McCoury to join him as he expresses his final wishes while imagining his funeral (“Raise nothing in my honor/It wasn’t worth the waste”).
If a chord can capture what it sounds like for a lump to grow in your throat, “Still I Crash,” a conversation between Strings and his mother, achieves it: “I am still your one true friend/But as the seasons change, and you’re still out of range/I can hear your voice as it echoes through my head.”
Instead, So Much for Goodbyes tells the truth: that flawed parents, and people, are deserving of love and fond remembrance, in spite of their shortcomings; that devastation can infuriate, paralyze, and humble anyone at any stage of the grieving process; that picking an acoustic guitar is a meditative practice with the power to soothe and heal.
Often, Strings’ furious fingers hold a mirror up to his emotional state, whether he’s frustrated with fate (“Lucid Daydream”), admitting his nostalgic tendency to try to “bring back old memories for one reason or another I let go” (“I’m One of Those”), or playing for the sake of simply carrying on through the impossible (“I Like Train Songs”).
Death—that of his mother, but also the pondering of his own—looms large, and on “Lay Me Down,” he invites bluegrass legend Del McCoury to join him as he expresses his final wishes while imagining his funeral (“Raise nothing in my honor/It wasn’t worth the waste”).
If a chord can capture what it sounds like for a lump to grow in your throat, “Still I Crash,” a conversation between Strings and his mother, achieves it: “I am still your one true friend/But as the seasons change, and you’re still out of range/I can hear your voice as it echoes through my head.”
TRACK LIST:
1 .
I'm One of Those
(04:21)
2 . Burn the Other End (04:40)
3 . Carry Us Home (04:11)
4 . Lay Me Down (04:01)
5 . Lucid Daydream (06:36)
6 . Mill Town Flood (05:05)
7 . Live to Tell (06:23)
8 . Bluewater Breakdown (03:30)
9 . Light the Way (02:45)
10 . I Like Train Songs (04:48)
11 . 10,000 .Miles From a Friend (05:06)
12 . Still I Crash (05:00)
13 . I Wish I Wanted To (06:35)
14 . Remember to Cry (03:49)
15 . Wrestling an Angel (03:45)
16 .Debra's Waltz (04:10)
2 . Burn the Other End (04:40)
3 . Carry Us Home (04:11)
4 . Lay Me Down (04:01)
5 . Lucid Daydream (06:36)
6 . Mill Town Flood (05:05)
7 . Live to Tell (06:23)
8 . Bluewater Breakdown (03:30)
9 . Light the Way (02:45)
10 . I Like Train Songs (04:48)
11 . 10,000 .Miles From a Friend (05:06)
12 . Still I Crash (05:00)
13 . I Wish I Wanted To (06:35)
14 . Remember to Cry (03:49)
15 . Wrestling an Angel (03:45)
16 .Debra's Waltz (04:10)
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