Billy Strings
William Lee Apostol, known by the stage name Billy Strings, is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and bluegrass musician. Three of his albums, Home, Live Vol. 1, Highway Prayers, have won the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album in 2021, 2025, and 2026 respectively.
How Critics See Billy Strings
Chorus pulls the clearest critic-consensus signals out of this discography: the highest-rated record, the tightest agreement, the sharpest split, and the best place to start.
So Much For Goodbyes
2026
Highest ChoruScore in this discography at 89/100 across 8 reviews.
Billy Strings's So Much For Goodbyes opens as a candid, often devastating reckoning that folds virtuoso playing into plainspoken songs about grief, family, and life on the road. Ac...
Highway Prayers
2024
Critics landed between 78 and 80 across 4 reviews.
Billy Strings's Highway Prayers arrives as a widescreen statement that balances bluegrass roots with studio ambition, and critics largely agree it succeeds more often than not. Acr...
So Much For Goodbyes
2026
Best balance of score, review depth, and critic agreement for a first listen.
Billy Strings's So Much For Goodbyes opens as a candid, often devastating reckoning that folds virtuoso playing into plainspoken songs about grief, family, and life on the road. Ac...
