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Billy Strings Live Show Review: 5/24, Allstate Arena, Rosemont

From left to right: Jarrod Walker, Royal Masat, Billy Strings, Billy Failing, Alex Hargreaves

BY JORDAN MAINZER

I would have been shocked to see the Allstate Arena full for some traditional bluegrass music. I wasn't surprised one lick to see it packed to the brim for Billy Strings. The prodigious guitar player competes in the bluegrass category at the Grammys--perhaps an American Roots nod here or a Country nod there, depending on the song and whether he's collaborating with anybody--but his brand of old-time string music is something more progressive and modern than what you associate with bluegrass. Not to say he doesn't have chops: If there was every anybody raised to appreciated music of the Appalachians, it's Strings, whose mother married amateur bluegrass musician Terry Barber when Strings was two years old. It was Barber who showed strings the likes of Bill Monroe and Doc Watson. Yet, it was Strings himself, a child of the early Internet age, who discovered rock and metal. Though his recorded music isn't loud, and his live performances aren't necessarily heavy, they exude the raw spirit of bluegrass, the virtuosity of rock and roll, and the jaw-dropping skill of both.

Walker, Masat, Strings, Failing, & Hargreaves

Having never seen Strings before, I didn't know what to expect last Friday at Allstate Arena. Walking in and scanning the tie dye-laden fans, it was clear he had a diehard following with a definite overlap with jam band culture. When he and his band took the stage (mandolinist Jarrod Walker, bassist Royal Masat, banjoist Billy Failing, fiddler Alex Hargreaves), I immediately understood why. Their performance of "Fire Line", a standout cut from 2017's Turmoil & Tinfoil, started out expected enough, Strings' breathtaking picking leading the way, but quickly gave way to something almost resembling improvisational jazz, with fiddle solos and guitar plucks sprinkled between the rhythms. Strings then put his complex pedal board to work to make his acoustic guitar distort like an electric guitar, a clear distinction from earlier in the song where he made it sound like, well, a banjo. That is, this was more Pink Floyd than Earl Scruggs.

Walker, Masat, Strings, Failing, & Hargreaves

And in the same way a few of the non-aggressive electronic music heads have embraced the loose ends of the Grateful Dead and Phish, I could see why they, too, might appreciate a Billy Strings concert. The way Strings intertwines traditional tunes and covers within his original material, often segueing between songs, is akin to a DJ set. During "Long Forgotten Dream", a highlight from Strings' 2019 breakout album Home, at one point, after a long period of ambiance with Strings' subtle guitars wincing above the mostly quiet band, the song's main refrain returned to flashing rainbow lights, the crowd going nuts like the beat had just dropped. Of course, Strings and his band are much more fun to watch than a DJ: Call me crazy, but at one point during a cover of Failing's "So Many Miles", he was picking so fast it looked like there was wind blowing his red mane.

Walker, Masat, Strings, Failing, Hargreaves, & Terry Barber

And for those bluegrass traditionalists, Friday treated them to an encore of Barber himself coming out to join the band, huddled around a microphone, to cover a couple Monroe classics and, fittingly, Charley Pride's "On the Southbound". "Well I woke up this morning when the cold Chicago wind / Blew my newspaper blanket off my back," sang Strings, of course hoping for that thing to happen where you name the city you're playing in or near and the crowd cheers. It didn't matter not only because the crowd was cheering anyway, but because many of them were already avid Strings followers, along for the journey from city to city, from song to song.

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Quarter Notes: Blurbs & Briefs from Sound Bites

- In this edition: Robin Trower; Bob Dylan; Terry Barber; and Cool Cool Cool

ROBIN TROWER “RECOVERING WELL” AFTER SURGERY: Robin Trower is focusing on returning to the concert stage after undergoing a “major operation” that led the guitarist to cancel his fall tour of the United States.

“I went in (to surgery) and came out through the other side and am recovering well,” Trower said in a statement. “Now, I’m looking forward to getting going and to start playing live again.”

DON’T FENCE DYLAN IN: Bob Dylan has cut a version of Gene Autry’s “Don’t Fence Me In” to run during the closing credits of the forthcoming biopic “Reagan,” Billboard magazine reports.

TERRY BARBER INDUCTED INTO MICHIGAN COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME: Terry Barber, the bluegrass musician best known as Billy Strings’ dad, was inducted into the Michigan Country Music Hall of Fame.

“Check my dad out,” Strings said in posting the story from the Lansing State Journal.

MIKEY CARUBBAHAS TO TAKE BREAK FROM TOURING: Cool Cool Cool and former Turkuaz drummer Mikey Carubbahas is leaving the concert stage temporarily to “come back to myself.”

“Currently, I don’t have the energy to keep doing it,” he said in a statement. “Everything else about this life, combined with my own choices over the last 20 years, have brought me now to a point where I really need to rest. I need to refocus my energy. I need to sit down and be alone, and really come back to myself.”

8/21/24

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