Billy Strings Escaped the Darkness. He’s Playing to Not Go Back.

The genre-straddling musician could have been lost to addiction and trauma. Instead he’s filling arenas.

​The genre-straddling musician could have been lost to addiction and trauma. Instead he’s filling arenas. Folk Music, Drug Abuse and Traffic, Music, Deaths (Fatalities), Fans (Persons), Strings, Billy (1992- ), Watson, Doc, Michigan, Traverse City (Mich), Country Music, Grateful Dead