Billy Don Burns - The Country Blues - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2023 . Billy Don Burns is the real deal. He's a no-nonsense kind of guy who prefers to let his songs speak for themselves. After all, he's been making music for more than fifty years and in that time, he's seen both the ups and downs of the music business and has honestly expressed himself in a decidedly uncompromising way. It's little wonder then that his songs have been recorded by the best in the business - a list that includes Willie Nelson, Johnny Paycheck, Tanya Tucker, Mel Tillis, and Sammy Kershaw, to name but a few. And now a new generation has come along and recorded his songs - Artists like Cody Jinks, Colter Wall, Whitey Morgan and others. InchI make music because that's all I've ever done,Inch Billy Don maintains. InchIt's all I know. I write because the songs come out of me and I'm privileged to be able to give them life.Inch Billy Don's new album, InchI've Seen A Lot of Highway, due for on October 20th via Shooter Jennings' Black Country Rock tag, provides an apt summation of both the struggles and successes he's seen over the course of his career. BDB and his guitar landed in Nashville in 1972. Within a few weeks Harlan Howard had signed him as a writer with Wilderness Music, where he met Lefty Frizzell, Tanya Tucker, Waylon Jennings, and Tommy Jennings. He was accepted in that crowd with Billy Joe Shaver, Lee Clayton, Billy Ray Reynolds, Steve Young, etc. He scored his first major cut by Connie Smith on Columbia Records in 1974. Over the years Burns became recognized as one of the original outlaws and great writers of country music. His songs pretty much tell his life story. Album Tracks 1. Neon Circus 2. All She Put Him Through 3. Don't Cry for Me 4. Born to Ride 5. I've Seen a Lot of Highway 6. I Went Crazy 7. You Can't Change Me 8. Satan Is a Son of a B*tch 9. That's When I Knew 10. Motel Madness 11. Mack Story 12. Ta

2019 . Billy Strings has been hailed as the future of bluegrass, transcending tradition and genre with his high velocity, flat-picking guitar technique and intense, confessional songwriting. Home, Strings' remarkable second studio album, is undoubtedly the Michigan-born, Nashville-based artist's bravest excursion thus far, reshaping bluegrass into his own exceptional form, completely rewiring the aesthetic with elements of punk, country, folk rock, and genuine psychedelic exploration to fashion something altogether original and all his own. From the jump, Strings has infused bluegrass with his own experiences and inspirations, adopting traditional sonic and lyrical idioms to confront contemporary social truths. Songs like InchAway From The MireInch and the remarkable title track are rooted in the past but as now as next week, animated by electrifying musicianship, inventive production, and Strings' irrepressible ambition. HOME marks a landmark on this constantly moving artist's ongoing creative journey, it's fearless songs and freewheeling approach recasting string-based American music in his own inimitable image. Album Tracks 1. Taking Water 2. Must Be Seven 3. Running 4. Away from the Mire 5. Home 6. Watch It Fall 7. Long Forgotten Dream 8. Highway Hypnosis 9. Enough to Leave 10. Hollow Heart 11. Love Like Me 12. Everything's the Same 13. Guitar Peace 14. Freedom

Album Tracks 1. Foggy Mountain Top 2. What Would You Give in Exchange Four Your Soul? 3. Watson's Blues 4. Soldier's Joy 5. Where Is My Sailor Boy? 6. You Won't Be Satisfied That Way 7. Kentucky Mountain 8. East Tennessee Blues 9. Midnight on the Stormy Deep 10. Lonesome Moonlight Waltz 11. Banks of the Ohio 12. Fire on the Mountain 13. Chicken Reel 14. Turkey in the Straw 15. Memories of You 16. Have a Feast Here Tonight 17. Paddy on the Turnpike