Chris Eldridge

And then 20 years later, he decides to do this other record, Roots from Roots to Branches.

And he's having, you know, you know, he's got a Doc Watson cut on there that he recorded before, but he's also got Sierra Hall and Trey Hensley and Billy Strings and And all these great, Kenny Smith, all these great players, Tommy Emanuel, Chris Eldridge.

But then, you know, you get to be a part of that, which I think is really awesome for you.

That's just great that you are selected to be a part of

Roots and Branches includes two such posthumous tracks, the other is with Tony Rice.

But most of the cuts are pretty recent, and they include performances with Cody Kilby, Chris Eldridge, Sierra Hull, Jake Stargell, and others.

There's one track with a full band, a whimsical Doc-inspired update of The Devil Went Down to Georgia with Billy Strings.

We will cover Bryan's life story in the interview pretty well, but here's the overview.

He is such a thing.

You know, it's, it's...

I first heard about him through Chris Eldridge, and, uh, you can probably still see it.

It's a, it's a YouTube video of him and I think at a, um, Folk Alliance sort of showcase doing Freeborn Man, and just, it's still the same Billy you see today.

Yeah.

I remember talking to, I'd heard about Chris Eldridge and his connection with Tony Rice, but I had him on the podcast and he was talking about a few days he spent with Tony Rice when he was maybe in college, just hung out together.

He said they never played guitar together.

They'd mostly just talked.

Well, Courtney Hartman is still in my list, if that's the case, because I think she's a very strong player that way.

Man, who else is a good one? It's harder, right? It's harder, you know, because, yeah, and I'm like, there are names that are coming to mind, but they're already like famous people like, you know, like Chris Eldridge, you know, like when he sticks to the melody, he plays great, beautiful, like lush things, you know, but people know Critter.

Who else is out there?

There's this guy I need to I don't know how to say his last name.