{"id":2482298,"date":"2026-06-30T18:18:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2482298"},"modified":"2026-06-30T18:18:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T18:18:50","slug":"billy-strings-announces-new-album-so-much-for-goodbyes-hear-burn-the-other-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/billy-strings-announces-new-album-so-much-for-goodbyes-hear-burn-the-other-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Strings Announces New Album ‘So Much For Goodbyes’: Hear \u201cBurn The Other End\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Billy Strings stays busy. Despite suffering a broken leg<\/a> in April while skateboarding on tour, the bluegrass superstar still has a bunch of shows coming up this summer and fall, including his own hometown music festival Ionia Freak Fair, which boasts a metal stage<\/a> alongside all the twangy, rootsy, jammy stuff. The fest is going down Aug. 28-29 in Ionia, Michigan, and now we know it will coincide with the release of a new Billy Strings album.<\/p>\n

So Much For Goodbyes<\/em>, the follow-up to 2024’s Highway Prayers<\/a><\/em>, is indeed out the last Friday in August. Whereas the last one was produced by Jon Brion, this time Strings co-produced with T Bone Burnett. The cover art is by Strings’ late mother, Debra Apostol, to whom the album is dedicated:<\/p>\n

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I made this record to honor my mother. 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\u2019s always been there for me to lean on through the hard times, and I figure it always will\u2026until it\u2019s my time to say goodbye.<\/p>\n

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Strings wrote lead single “Burn The Other End” with Paul Hoffman. It’s a gloomy yet invigorating minor-key ramble that does a lot to connect the dots between bluegrass and metal. Watch the video below.<\/p>\n

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