BILLY STRINGS - Highway Prayers - 2CD [SEP 27]

2CD - Softpak.  

Highway Prayers, the highly anticipated new studio album from Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter and musician Billy Strings, on Reprise Records. Produced by Strings and Jon Brion (Fiona Apple, Mac Miller, Aimee Mann), the album includes 20 original songs including the first single, “Leadfoot”. Written by Strings, the song features Strings on vocals, banjo, bass, steel guitar, EBow electric guitar and 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle along with Matt Chamberlain on drums. 

Recorded in Los Angeles and Nashville, the album features Strings and his longtime band—Billy Failing (banjo, vocals), Royal Masat (bass, vocals), Jarrod Walker (mandolin, vocals) and Alex Hargraves (fiddle)—as well as additional contributions from Brion (bass, drums, percussion), Chamberlain (drums), Jerry Douglas (dobro), Jason Carter (fiddle), Lindsay Lou (backing vocals), Nathaniel Smith (cello), Taneka Samone (backing vocals), Cory Henry (piano), Peter “Madcat” Ruth (harmonica, jaw harp) and Victor Furtado (clawhammer banjo).

Tracklist: 

01 Leaning on a Travelin' Song
02 In the Clear
03 Escanaba
04 Gild the Lily
05 Seven Weeks In County 
06 Stratosphere Blues / I Believe in You 
07Cabin Song
08Don't Be Calling Me (at 4AM) 
09 Malfunction Junction
10 Catch and Release
11 Be Your Man
12 Gone a Long Time
13 It Ain't Before
14 My Alice
15 Seney Stretch
16 MORBUD4ME
17 Leadfoot
18 Happy Hollow
19 The Beginning of the End
20 Richard Pett