Billy Strings - Hellbender (Official Audio)

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“Hellbender” - from Billy Strings newest album Renewal, available everywhere now!

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About BILLY STRINGS:

Michigan-born and now Nashville-based, Billy Strings is a GRAMMY Award-winning singer, songwriter and musician, who arrived on the scene as “one of string music’s most dynamic young stars” (Rolling Stone). Strings is in the midst of a triumphant year after winning Best Bluegrass Album at the 63rd GRAMMY Awards for his critically acclaimed record, Home. Produced by Glenn Brown, the record also led Strings to top Billboard’s 2020 year-end charts in both Bluegrass categories—Top Bluegrass Artists and Top Bluegrass Albums—and continues to receive widespread critical acclaim. Of the release, The Associated Press proclaims, “it is his creative musical storytelling, paired with solid vocals on Home that should seal the deal, pleasing fans of the genre and creating some new ones…the perfect blend of pure talent and pluck,” while The Wall Street Journal declares, “Billy Strings has clearly emerged as a premier guitar flatpicker of this era.” Since his debut, Strings has been awarded Guitar Player of the Year and New Artist of the Year at the 2019 International Bluegrass Music Awards, selected as one of Rolling Stone’s “New Country Artists to Know” and performed on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and PBS’ “Bluegrass Underground.” Known for his electric live shows, Strings will continue his extensive headline tour throughout 2021 including upcoming shows in Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Denver, Austin, Atlanta and Nashville among several others.

Out September 24 via Rounder Records, Renewal was produced by Jonathan Wilson (Conor Oberst, Roger Waters, Father John Misty) and solidifies Strings’ position as a singular artist—one who honors the history of the music that inspires him, while continually pushing it forward. With the record’s sixteen tracks, Strings shares a more personal and honest perspective through his songwriting, while incorporating his wide range of influences with elements of bluegrass, classic rock, metal, psychedelic music and more.

LYRICS

(Apostol / Weisberger / Allen)

In the cold early morning in the hills of Kentucky

I woke to the sound of the rain

And the girl from last evening laid silently sleeping

though I couldn't remember her name

My head was a pounding and the sweat poured

around me like the faucet that she left on high,

With a chip on my shoulder I'm another day older

and I swear I could break down and cry

I Never once made a dollar, which I didn’t gamble,

or scramble to burn at both ends

I’ve raged all night long, in the hour before dawn

on spirits and bitters and blends

What’s left of my day might be crimson or

grey but never again black and white

With a chip on my shoulder I'm another day older

and I swear I could break down and cry

I'm a fool with my money and I'm a fool with

my drinking I'm sinking to bottom of the well,

Adding fuel to the fire like my wildest desire

is to spend the next lifetime in hell

I could cruise down to Hades, in a

snow white Mercedes and a devilish look in my eye

With a chip on my shoulder I'm another day older

and I swear I could break down and cry

There's a hard place on one side and a

Rock on the other, no corners to cut in this maze,

Only one way to do it, just to grin and bear through it,

I've been drinking up the courage for days

So I’ll drain every cup and keep stacking them up

till the sun stumbles out of the sky

With a chip on my shoulder I'm another day older

and I swear I could break down and cry

I’ll keep on this way till my last dying day,

it’s a blessingI’ve tried to disguise

With a chip on my shoulder I’m another day older

and I swear I could break down and cry

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