Billy Strings Escaped the Darkness. He’s Playing to Not Go Back. | The Interview
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Billy Strings, the Grammy Award-winning singer and virtuoso guitarist, has a new album, “So Much for Goodbyes,” due out Aug. 28. He discussed the genesis of that album, among many other things, in a conversation with David Marchese. Strings, whose real name is William Apostol, has broken ground by using the elements of traditional bluegrass to become an arena-filling phenomenon. Along the way he has also acquired a Deadhead-like legion of fans who follow his tours. He grew up surrounded by poverty and drug addiction in small-town Michigan, and his mother died from a drug overdose last year at 64 years old. That loss inspired much of the music on his new album. Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/magazine/billy-strings-interview.html [00:00] Billy Strings and his career [03:00] His new album, "So Much for Goodbyes," and his mom’s death [13:28] The good and bad parts of his childhood [16:07] Partying with parents and trying drugs [18:33] Why he didn't develop a drug proble
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