Billy Strings Announces New Album, ‘Highway Prayers’

Coming SOON.

Today, bluegrass extraordinaire Billy Strings announced a new album called Highway Prayers, which is slated to drop on September 27th.

He shared the news in a post on Instagram, which features a lot of imagery with cars and car-related concepts, so it could possibly be even some sort of concept album, or at least heavily centered on cars and the open road.

Strings also put out the lead single called “Leadfoot,” and the tracklist features other songs like “Seven Weeks In County,” “Cabin Song,” and one he’s played at a live show before that I absolutely love called “Richard Petty,” of course named for the iconic NASCAR driver.

And if “Cabin Song” sounds familiar to you, it’s because it was already released as part of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes soundtrack.

Billy Strings put out a live album earlier this year, and a collaborative record with his father called Me/And/Dad in 2022, but this will be the first full-lengthy studio album we’ve gotten from him since 2021 when he released his Grammy-nominated album, Renewal.

And soon, we’ll get to hear the song he’s featured on for Post Malone’s new country album F-1 Trillion called “M-E-X-I-C-O.”

Of course, he’s one of most talented musicians alive right now, so it’s sure to be another incredible release, and coming in at 20 songs, should be full of amazing music and tons of his signature guitar work.

Highway Prayers tracklist:

1. Leaning on a Travelin’ Song

2. In the Clear

3. Escanaba

4. Gild the Lily

5. Seven Weeks In County

6. Stratosphere Blues / I Believe in You

7. Cabin Song

8. Don’t Be Calling Me (at 4AM)

9. 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 Petty

The music video for “Leadfoot” is… something. Check it out: