Don't Think Twice - Billy Strings 

LOL. 😊 He is AMAZING! 🤩

me too!

Of course, when you were young there weren't even any Martins out

Hey, congratulations on making it this far & to another 214 years best of luck !!!!!

Don't forget to catch your space ship 😂

Such an underrated comment

Truth

When billy DOES ANYTHING, you know it’s gonna be FIRE...

had the same thought.

hey, what did that wall ever to do you

there is a lot of greats out there better, but his talent of bringing it back and popularizing the bs is unmatched. His song writing is why he's him

Such a fan of Billy Strings; but let's not forget Doc Watson and his great style- he had covered Don't Think Twice many times with his son Merle as well- all great pickers!

Tommy Emanuel is better imo. Both brilliant though

The only person that I would ever consider to be as good as Billy is Roy Clark ❤

Molly Tuttle is up there as well

Yes!!!!!

Right?.?

Best comment I've seen yet on this young man! He is absolutely fulfilling his purpose and leaving laughter, tears and thoughtful reflection in his wake. Coach Jim Valvano said if you can think a little, laugh and cry some you've lived a full day. Yep, you hit the nail on the head! Thanks!

Exactly! Those are the words I was looking for !!

That is the most honest statement I have ever read on RU-vid. Thank you

Can you hear Doc Watson in his guitar picking? It hit me like a brick

Yes… yes I can!! Doc is the most underrated and least known picker of all time PERIOD! God bless him and the rest of his clan. Most people have no idea what they did to influence multiple generations of musicians.

@@ryanh7360 glad someone else hears it too. RIP Doc, we miss you

@@TheeDavidDee I miss Doc Watson somethin fierce.

@@thedudegrowsfood284 Grateful we had him for as long as we did though. He blessed us all

I couldn't agree with you more but I wish I could.

I’m 55

@@is-ness You are a Youngster 😁😁😁😁

i totally agree!!

This being right under a comment making fun of the type of person who would say somthing like this is just poetry

Very well put, my friend

Like 20 so far, for me. Just so pure, fantastic and beautiful.

Yo my dad past last month and not sure if he knew this song but ik if I would have showed him he would have loved just based on how great he is on the guitar sry for ur loss ik it's hard I am still devastated man wish u nothing but the best

@@jefferyraines2239 big love brother, hope you’re holding up okay 🖤

@Billy Strings official Spartanburg SC

@Billy Strings official also thank u man

@@BigSamSnaps thank u man you as well

That's because the wrong people are doing the picking ...

nah, it's because..sadly most people are too dumb to listen to music that doesn't make them feel sad or gangster. AKA: People use music as a life shaper instead of appreciating music simply for it being music. ..as we know..We can't fix stupid.

best comment i ever read anywhere

Tänk om Christelle Berthon på muspel varit med..

HAHA WAP IS A GUDD SONG HAHA

Its not played because its pure talent, not simple pandering.

Because it's not country. Remember folk music?

@@TheTreedodger if you want to get technical whats played on country stations could 90% be categorized as pop, not country. This "Folk music" is more country than alot of what Im hearing today.

Because it's obviously not country. You can tell because he is not wearing skinny jeans and has no man bun.

@@davidknox4451 you get it

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Lol. Me too

Solid comment 😂

Same here man lol

Ronald Ulip , Yep, exact same story for me.

❤

@@ztcr6nothing wrong with using a capo, all that matters is the music

Better than the original and any other cover of this song

@@jayzhou104 Have u heard ramblin jack elliot

He’s got way better ones to be honest

I saw Warren Haynes for the first time in 1989 and Billy Strings is the only new player Ive seen that can match his raw talent. Its really rare for guys this good to come around but thank goodness he did.

Not exactly the same but have y’all heard colter wall? His music is the embodiment of the west that’s died

@@austinpat2570 link ??

@@Unkl_Bob m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4l4gdhPqh3E.html

@@Unkl_Bob he’s an amazing artist

😂😂😂

I can’t even pick my nose as well as he can pick those strings.

Maybe if you practiced more?

Not possible

Same

Love That! ❤👍🤙🙏

yeah giving birth to her son went pretty well, but giving birth to the guitar was quite difficult

His guitar has always been phenomenal, his singing just needed to catch up a little bit, it so did here. Ive played this video about 10 times on repeat, absolutely love this cover.

TouchéPadre I know

@M Ragunathan his vocals are evolving... he is an absolute guitar prodigy!

Completely mastered finger picking, it’s insane. glad I randomly stubbled on this

😎🌵AWESOME BILLY!!😎🌵🤠

he's like everybody else wants to be... but a lot more fluent.

Him and Marcus king the two new legends

Has he played with tommy Emmanuel?

That's true... guitar heroes are becoming a thing of the past.

Whilst singing a cover :p love billy

Strait up

Same

Amen

haha hell yeah daddy! love the profile pic squidbillys

Hopefully he doesn't try Heroin..

talent and 1000's of hours of practice. And a father who taught him a lot.

I thought he looked better clean cut myself. He's too talented to pull off the hippie look in my opinion.

More so than talent, which isn't raw, but refined by honing his skill built by may, many years of work and practice.

Preach, brother. People say country music is dead, that couldn't be further from the truth. In fact, I would consider the last 3-5 years a rebirth of sorts. There's several names that come to mind that are picking up where the outlaws left off in their prime. This fella here, Sturgill Simpson, Tyler Childers, Hank III and Whitey Morgan absolutely outstanding. This is a second Golden Age of country music, something amazing, but if people are looking for it on "Country" radio then they are gonna miss it.

I'm an old Metalhead and I'm so totally impressed and proud to say a Huge Fan. I grew up in NC in between Doc Watson and Earl Scruggs that was some of my earliest memories. When I got older became a lead screamer in a Metal Band for many years. Enough about me this is about Billy Strings. This young man is the total package, Singer, Songwriter, Performer, a Future Legend. A talent like this comes along very seldom. We are witnessing History in the making.

It's literally in his blood

Gifted guitarists don’t need a capo

@@jonde4445 Okie dokie troll!

Garrett Adkins no joke !

Fr

Long as you know he’s covering bob dylan, amazingly I’ll add. If you haven’t heard the original, I highly recommend. I do love the pickin style billy added

Kirk Hope I mean it’s not really necessary to explain to us that he’s covering Bob Dylan I think we get it.. can’t we just give him praise for being a rad musician no matter what song he’s singing or covering

Kirk Hope very big bob dylan fan and know he is covering him 🔥

Beautiful voice, to boot.

Best comment could not of said it better

@@chrissylynnfalkner3245 have

HARD FREAKING AGREE

Near ? 😂

It's probably the onions , same thing happened to me 😁😁😁

Couldn’t agree more. This young man has absorbed so much tradition and put his own interpretation upon that. He is a rare talent

And he is so humble, from playing with a dedicated father and sitting on a couch with his mates jamming. Just a regular chap with huge potential

Bluegrass music is Scot/Irish/English folk music.

It's funny because I live in southern Pennsylvania and playing all the great British rock music and you live there playing bluegrass. The world is getting smaller.

Leigh Murphy John Martyn did a great cover of this about 40+ years ago and he was English. Have you listened to his version?

He is the opposite of lost in it. Music is all about math. You gotta count.

@@spaceghost8995 lost in counting, dude

Does math make his fingers hit the right note at speed Space Ghost?

Couldn^t say it in better words!!!!

Space Ghost Only if you suck and have no soul. Billy has true soul and can play no matter what. Ever seen Jerry Reed back in the day? Back when he was so doped up on qualudes, you could watch him stumble up to the mic, but when he started playing, all that bs stopped. His soul took over and made the true magic. I see Billy doing the same thing. Just a tortured soul looking for its outlet, and he found it with a guitar.

And singing at the same time is insane.

@@obuddahee8787 Travis picking is where the thumb is alternating picking between two bass notes, and the other fingers pick higher strings on the off beat. As Mark said, this is an exceptional example

@@jasperperry6751 he makes it sound effortless. I saw him live here in Houston earlier this year. one of the best performances I've ever seen.

There's nothing this kid can't do on a guitar. He's a real artist.

@@obuddahee8787 it was pioneered by one of the greats, Mearl Travis. Billy ALMOST does it better lol.

Yes, a true artist.... From France.

AGREE 100%!!!!

I’m a hip hop type of guy but I just discovered Billy Strings recently and I’m honestly amazed at his voice and guitar skills 👌🏻

Watch his old videos . His voice has improved a lot

His voice is freakishly good, I really think it's right there with his playing.

yes. It seems he has contact with something out there beyond his own mind.

He is a generational talent. We are lucky indeed. He seems like he has it together too. If he keeps it between the lines and stays on these bangers hes been making, he will very quickly become a legend.

@@kmhawk23 Check out the pairing of Billy and Marcus King on I'm A Lonesome Fugitive or Summertime. Then Marcus King doing his version of Swingin' Doors and then tell me you can pick a favorite.

Billy Strings, Marcus King, Colter Wall - three generational talents we are grateful to witness alive today.

This is natural God given talent. Pure and simple, like a river flowing. That is how he plays.

@@pistolschlapper plus 1

Tennessee Stud

He threw this cover down through the eyes of Peter, Paul and Mary.

It's up there with the Grateful Dead covers and that is a high bar.

Its a remake of another old ballad with different words and key but same chord progressions.

Check out Ramblin Jack Elliott's versions. Dylan gave him the song. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-crd-jZqpSHk.html

I heard him today for the first time and listened to him most of the night

108 here

Crystal...did you listen to this venue before?

@Billy Strings deeply!

oh man, you found your kid's brown note. keep this in mind when you need to prank him in the future

Idk is that even a compliment 😆"your music helps me poop" 😂

Kids, had a few.

Luckily his voice is NOTHING at all like Prine.

@@spaceghost8995 It has the influence of Prine, not the sound of Prine, thankfully

Great to see John mentioned here, one of the artists Bob Dylan so greatly admires & looks up to.

Its called making the guitar sing. He isn't playing guitar and singing. He is duetting with his guitar.

Mario when he gets the rainbow star, but all the time.

So is his daddy.

@@mauiwowie2532 pretty good comment, A+.

It is just part of his soul and keeps pouring out.

Funny (or maybe not) that you should mention Doc Watson. That was Billy's hero and primary inspiration. One of his others (not mentioned) is Jerry Garcia. Hence, his covers of a number of Jerry's tunes.

Let’s not forget Tommy Emmanuel in that list!

@Adrian T hendrix was honestly trash if ya ask me

Hendrix was not as technically good as the chicken pickers. Although I do enjoy his great heavy electric blues solos

I'll personally always add SRV to that list, but I feel much the same way.

👏 👏 👏

Maybe it's not so bad if he remembers to clip the loose ends off the strings first :)

Very good Pete

very good

Fn funny

Probably because being a successful entertainer and being a great musician are two entirely different things

He's really young..20? He played heavy metal through High School but got wrapped up in drugs and lost several close friends to them. So, he went back to his acoustic roots. He is beyond a good player..a genius..and players all over the world see it. He is gaining a massive following very quickly. Mainstream? No. He has turned down multiple record deals to do it his own way.

Probably because he plays bluegrass....its a niche that has some of the most amazing musicians you'll ever hear but it does seem to confine them to a niche. Billy does combine influences though. He's bloody amazing. There are good videos of bluegrass guutarists trying to watch his videos and walk you through what he's doing and the shocked expressions on their face as he cranks it up are priceless.

@@brucewilson1958 he’s 28

@@kob42141 Thank you.

Such a privilege absolutely awesome can't believe people don't know what talent truly is! And I just accidentally clicked on the link and wow. Great description

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Billy was one of the last people my grandma heard on hospice as well, sending strength your way

Bless you & your loved dear family bra, Lincoln, my dad left us 10 years ago & I've never been the same but 'different'. It sucks, it hurts like hell, it's better when you feel their strength power & spirit - even long after they've gone - you know energy cannot be destroyed & we are made of energy. They do not die - they just move into the next phase - my dad's there now he was only 65 & fitter than me & my 4 younger brothers put together. He watches us always.👻 As do my granda & gran. 🫂 I've a B.Mus.Ed degree UNSW played guitar fingerpicking a dreadnaught Maton CW80/12 string, I was 9, haven't stopped killing guitars since 1979 I'm 52 & never get sick of Billy Strings. Even tho I don't know you I feel for you cos I know what it's like your horrible situation inevitable as it is sadly. Music people are the right kinda people, bra. You are NOT alone, Lincoln, neither will be your loved mom in a far far more powerful world than this gravity restricted rock!?. Peace, respect & be nice to people - even bastards who don't deserve it.🎸 Rock like the neighbours need to hear it & don't turn down 'til the pigs show up. 🤘Didyabringyabongalong Station, Kabi Kabi Country, QLD.

You are so right. Tommy Emmanuel, Richard Smith, Shawn Lane, Michael Cleveland, Molly Tuttle, Declan O'Rourke, Paco de Lucia, Darrell Scott, etc., etc. The list goes on for miles. You've heard of them because talent matters to you. You can recognize it. The next time you are watching people around music, look at them. They don't usually care so much about music or talent. They have to be told who is good and who is not. If you haven't seen it, the video of the greatest classical violinist in the world, Josh Bell, playing in a Washington D.C. subway proves my point, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LZeSZFYCNRw.html .

Another thing about Billy is his approach to his popularity explosion. He's still the same Billy. No fronts no b.s he's an artist and music needed the artist back in it.

He is getting famous he’s starting to headline huge festivals. Sells out ever show with a quickness

its not about how good or not good he is... its about the market...theres not much of market for this type of music unless it becomes a "fade" . Not saying its right but its the truth. With that being said I'M sure he does good for himself by playing, but hes not gonna make as much as much as Katie parry.

@Ksee Yes, “fad” and “Perry”.

God bless you

Peace be with you,you will see your cousin again,I keep faith and hope to see my loved ones again.Music is magic,so healing.

Check out the Clapton version from the early 90's in New York City. Unreal and smokin'! The audio doesn't even do it justice because the backup band was G.E. Smith and the SNL band and they were in a total state of disbelief watching him. It's a million degrees different than this but just shows how versatile Dylan's music is when in capable hands.

I didnt know it was a cover

mark baker Doc Watson is the original artist

Check out Post Malones cover from 2013

@@jessemcmichael3799 Nope. Bob Dylan.

LOLOLOLOL

That's hilarious!

This SENT ME

🤣🤣🤣

Funny.

It’s brilliant. My 17 year old grandson has made a cover of this would love to know what you think of it ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ds4h0Q6GQHg.html

This guitar part sounds better than the original

Nick Drakes version is also incredible ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SqxmTI9UUks.html

100%

Fretkillr does a smashing version too 👍

Dont think twice it's alright.

@@SwordPlay1 Best response ever.

As long as your mom doesn't tell you that...

When you comin to Los Angeles?

You could always do like I did and try the kazoo.

Excellent metaphor!

Agree. His right hand is ridiculous...people always talk about God given talent, completely dismisses the thousands of hours of sweat...

Man y’all are like 3 years late to the party. This man has been the best for a couple years now. Keep up bandwagon!

@@mattplyler12 chill man. We found em that's all that matters

5,000 Subscribers For First Video. I know I know. Enjoy him my friend!

Same

Turd Ferguson totally fucking agree, however it’s still helping.

He just travis picking chords really fast and added a little riff. This song is like 4 chords repeated its not that crazy at all.

@. Turnock Whats the betting we dont get to hear Tyler W do his version 🤥. Me personally thought it is one of the best and cleanest renditions that I personally have heard.🤟🏻

@@tyw12 The chords I see are C, C/g, Am, G, G7, F, D/f# and numerous hammer-ons, so I doubt your ability to count.

Tyler W gotta say I agree with Tyler. I’m not very good and play this easily. The melody he does would take a few minutes to get down.. but if it sounds impressive I’m going to start playing it more lol

@@tyw12 you going to post a videos of you playing it?

Same same 😅

What is flat picking?

@@spaceghost8995 It's when you are using a regular pick, but picking out individual notes on individual strings - as opposes to strumming the pick across multiple (or all) strings. Flat picking is much more difficult because you need to be really accurate where the pick goes, and of course, for economy of motion, you'll be picking some notes with an upward attack, and others with a downward attack.

He's definitely working his way up, but there's some amazing relatively unknown pickers too. There's some nice compilation vids on RU-vid, check um out...

McGunther flat picking IS just using a regular pick. You really only hear the term “flat picking” used by old time country musicians because fingerpicking is more popular. Flat picking more or less means using a pick to play what would normally be a finger picking type country style. It’s somewhat of a hipster terminology. It would be a lot more normal to just say “using a pick”

This is finger picking with a thumb pick.

Richard, I've been playing for 50 years too, and yes, millions of teenagers are way better than me, and I'm ok with that!

Great observation, Richard. It’s love of playing that keeps us going despite knowing we’ll never get to this level.

Been playing 30 yrs myself and I'm just glad I'm alive at the same time as this kinda talent so I can enjoy it!

That’s a wise and kind thing to say. I’m glad that there are people that mature and reflective in the world.

I know .I myself has been. Playing it since I first saw doc and merle in the early 80's. Hard work and persistence are still no match for talent ...I've worked very hard to sound mediocre in my opinion

Caveman Dan Same, and it’s even crazier he’s from my city. Me and my dad are mind blown

Me in 2019... But l'm in France....

I just said that myself.

@@highniijii Welcome aboard!

Have you been living in a cave or something? Lol