Earlier this month, John Mayer and Ernie Ball launched the Silver Slinky signature guitar strings, which brought the guitar hero’s previously unreleased custom gauge to the masses after years of ...

The simple answer is bluegrass, but listen closely to a Strings concert and you’ll hear elements of jazz and rock and blues and country and pop and heavy metal, sometimes in the same song. More to do ...

In newly shared footage, Billy Strings gets his hands on Ol' Hoss, an acoustic guitar owned and played by bluegrass legend Doc Watson.

A set of electric guitar strings is no match for the bicep-curling, iron-pumping purveyor of blues power. He shows us how he ...

Billy Strings may be the most controversial name in bluegrass, playing blazing leads on acoustic and distorted electric guitar, an instrument frowned upon by the genre’s hardcore traditionalists. But ...

At only 24, Billy Strings, with his blistering instrumentation, classically rich voice and old-soul lyricism, is already staking his claim among the bluegrass elite. In support of his debut solo album ...

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Somewhere out there is a place where country, bluegrass, jazz and rock all come together, and Billy Strings is building a house right there on the corner. Strings, who played the first of three ...

LAGUNA BEACH – They may not be Mozarts yet, but third graders in the Laguna Beach Unified School District are getting a chance to play the violin. The district bought about 40 violins and a few cellos ...

About a decade ago, when New Albany teenager Redd Ingram signed up for Urban Strings Columbus, he was already pretty serious about playing the double bass. Ingram had learned the instrument when he ...

This segment was rebroadcast on Nov. 29, 2021. Find that audio here. For Billy Strings, accepting a Grammy Award at 28 years old feels unreal. The Michigan-born musician says winning Best Bluegrass ...