"It was just unnecessary," he said on the Dopey podcast. "Didn't need to happen." Billy Strings thought the worst of his mother’s struggle with drug addiction was behind her. So when she died of ...

Billy Strings thought the worst of his mother’s struggle with drug addiction was behind her. So when she died of methamphetamine intoxication in June, it threw the bluegrass star for a loop. “It’s not ...

Billy Strings revealed that he wants to set his late mother’s poetry to music for a potential new album during an extensive interview about drug use and addiction on the Dopey podcast. Strings’ mother ...

Learning to play guitar as a young boy growing up in Michigan, Billy Strings never saw it as a viable career path. Instead, he assumed he’d eventually “wither away in prison” or end up a drug addict.