![]() They don’t have to do all the nice things they’ve done for me but they do. “They’ve shown me how much fun they can have out there. “They’ve been like my big brothers,” said the flat-picker known widely as Billy Strings. Not bad for a 25 year-old picker from small-town Michigan. In 2018 he will be touring with Greensky Bluegrass, another Michigan band on top of the national bluegrass scene. His 2017 debut album Turmoil and Tinfoil hit number three on the Billboard Bluegrass Charts, and Rolling Stone named him one of the “10 New Country Artists You Need to Know”. In 2016 he won the International Bluegrass Music Association Momentum Awards Instrumentalist of the Year. ![]() ![]() Fast forward 20 years and he has shared the stage with Del McCoury, David Grisman, Greensky Bluegrass, Sam Bush, and more. His father, Terry Barber, bargained with the woman at the antique shop in Ionia, Michigan, and came home with a $25 guitar that would set young William on a path for true musical greatness. William Apostol was four years old when his father bought him his first guitar.
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