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Music Appreciation

JohnnyRingo

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1. You had me at Billy Strings.

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Dec 24, 2025, 09:02 AM

22 hrs ago

That was among the most delightful things I've heard this week.

Although it's said there are thirteen hundred fifty two guitar pickers in Nashville, Billy Strings was born with a defect that allows his hands to do things other humans find impossible. Then I met Don Julin plucking that mandolin in this video and wonder if it's contagious.

Strings is the least pretentious musician of his generation, caring less about fame & fortune and more about the opportunity to play music. He was just happy to buy his mom a house. ...and maybe paying off his tattoo artist. LOL

Thanx for posting!

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You had me at Billy Strings. JohnnyRingo 22 hrs ago #1