So Much For Goodbyes

Well, sharing number 14 with Tim Stafford is another debut.

It's Billy Strings and Burn the Other End from his brand new album So Much for Goodbyes.

Billy wrote this one with Paul Hoffman.

First, here's Charlotte with some more background about Billy.

His musical interests later stretched into heavy metal, but bluegrass remained at the heart of his playing.

These days, he brings those roots to enormous audiences, with a stage show that leaves plenty of room for musical adventures.

This week's debut comes from So Much For Goodbyes, his new 16-track album, released in August.

I'm Charlotte in Studio 5B at Hawkesbury Radio in Sydney, Australia.

So give that one a check as well.

The album is called So Much for Goodbyes, and that song is called Burn the Other End.

So there you go.

That's what's in the rotation this week.

He has a new album inspired by the death of his mother last year from an overdose.

It's titled So Much for Goodbyes.

Here's the song "Still I Crash," which he wrote about her.

Mother, where did you go now? Tell me, I need to know how Am I supposed to go on without you? Mother, where have you flown to? Come home so I can hold you I'm learning to walk all on my own again And I am still your one true friend But as the days and years-

No problem, man.

Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Billy Strings speaking with Fresh Air's Sam Briger last year.

Strings has a new album, So Much for Goodbyes, inspired by the death of his mother last year.

We'll hear more after a break, and critic at large John Powers reviews the new novel, The Disappearers, which has been described as a masterpiece.