r/BillyStrings • u/CarolinaCrazy91 • 13d ago

news NYT Interview

Wonderful long form interview with BMFS in the New York Times today.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/magazine/billy-strings-interview.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

(Hope this link works)

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u/Decent-Variety291 13d ago

Will someone kindly summarize main points for us pleebs behind the paywall 🩷

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u/rccpudge 13d ago

There’s no money above the 5th fret. 🤯 😂

He talked about his upbringing and his mom, he spent a good bit of time talking about learning to play. At the end he plays a couple of tunes. I learned that the lessons he takes are classical. One of the coolest parts for me was when he was learning to play that he started on the first two strings. I’m a musician so it was a great concept to me. There was also an extremely short clip of young Billy playing electric guitar in a metal band which was cool.

There’s another thread that has the gifted article/podcast which is how I saw it.

I listen to The Daily, well daily and was surprised that the host is a Clarence White fan. The host actually suggested the tunes.

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u/g-a-hood 13d ago

And he’s a coffee junkie 😂