{"id":64980,"date":"2025-11-25T22:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/64980\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T22:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:24:10","slug":"billy-strings-brings-bluegrass-fire-to-colbert-with-leaning-on-a-travelin-song-as-his-grammy-momentum-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/64980\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Strings Brings Bluegrass Fire To Colbert With \u201cLeaning On A Travelin\u2019 Song\u201d As His Grammy Momentum Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/download-12-17.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/download-12-17.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"download (12)\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Billy Strings lit up The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night with a blazing performance of \u201cLeaning on a Travelin\u2019 Song,\u201d showing exactly why he continues to sit at the top of modern bluegrass. The appearance comes as Strings celebrates a Grammy nomination for Best Bluegrass Album for his latest release \u2018Highway Prayers,\u2019 a chart-topping project produced with Jon Brion that debuted at #1 on Billboard\u2019s all-genre Top Album Sales Chart. Pitchfork praised the album for expanding bluegrass\u2019s emotional depth, while GQ called Strings \u201cthe hottest roots-music phenomenon in decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fresh off a surprise live album with Sutton and an Apple Music Sessions EP, Strings is headed into a massive tour that includes multi-night stints in Louisville, Athens, Asheville, and Nashville\u2014including a special performance at the Ryman. As Strings told Colbert\u2019s crowd, he\u2019s not just leaning on tradition\u2014he\u2019s riding full speed into the future of the genre.<\/p>\n<p>BILLY STRINGS CONFIRMED TOUR DATES<br \/>December 5 \u2014 Louisville, KY \u2014 KFC Yum! Center (SOLD OUT)<br \/>December 6 \u2014 Louisville, KY \u2014 KFC Yum! Center (SOLD OUT)<br \/>December 10 \u2014 Tulsa, OK \u2014 BOK Center<br \/>December 12 \u2014 Fort Worth, TX \u2014 Dickies Arena<br \/>December 13 \u2014 Austin, TX \u2014 Moody Center<br \/>December 14 \u2014 Austin, TX \u2014 ACL Live at the Moody Theater (SOLD OUT)<br \/>February 6 \u2014 Athens, GA \u2014 Akins Ford Arena (SOLD OUT)<br \/>February 7 \u2014 Athens, GA \u2014 Akins Ford Arena (SOLD OUT)<br \/>February 10 \u2014 Asheville, NC \u2014 ExploreAsheville.com Arena (SOLD OUT)<br \/>February 11 \u2014 Asheville, NC \u2014 ExploreAsheville.com Arena (SOLD OUT)<br \/>February 13 \u2014 Asheville, NC \u2014 ExploreAsheville.com Arena (SOLD OUT)<br \/>February 14 \u2014 Asheville, NC \u2014 ExploreAsheville.com Arena (SOLD OUT)<br \/>February 20 \u2014 Nashville, TN \u2014 Bridgestone Arena<br \/>February 21 \u2014 Nashville, TN \u2014 Bridgestone Arena<br \/>February 22 \u2014 Nashville, TN \u2014 Ryman Auditorium\u2020 (SOLD OUT)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billy Strings lit up The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night with a blazing performance of \u201cLeaning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[33849,33850,33851,132,6410,134,133,33852,33853,33854,33855,33856,33857,33858,33859,33860,33861,33862,33863,33864,33865,33866,33867,33868,33869,33870,33871],"class_list":["post-64980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-aimee-mann","tag-akins-ford-arena","tag-american-legion-post-82","tag-austin","tag-austin-city-limits","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-billy-strings","tag-bluegrass-underground","tag-bob-dylan","tag-bridgestone-arena","tag-doc-watson","tag-exploreasheville-com-arena","tag-fiona-apple","tag-fresh-air","tag-gq","tag-howard-stern","tag-jimmy-fallon","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-jon-brion","tag-kfc-yum-center","tag-mac-miller","tag-npr","tag-pitchfork","tag-ryman-auditorium","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-sutton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}