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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raido Free America" data-source="post: 4022733" data-attributes="member: 45328"><p>First let me say, Americans have a EARNED right to like, or dislike, anything they choose, including the type music they choose!! My preference is Bluegrass Music, acoustic music, Folk Music, etc. that is well done! I find this music the be REAL, HONEST, music that basically tells this countries story!! There is a new kid on the block, Billy Strings, that is re-introducing this old music, to a whole new generations of Americans!! This kid has tatoos, long hair, etc. but he is also a PRODIGY MUSICIAN, that will likely be concidered the best guitar player that ever lived! He was raised dirt poor, by a totally disfuctional family of drug addicts. The only family I have heard him mention, is his step father that is a very good guitar player, that raised, and inspired Billy. Just one story to give insite to Billy nature, His step father was forced to sell the only thing they owned of any value, his Martin Guitar, inorder to have the utilities turned back on, in a rent house, in upper Michigan! Billy started earninga little money as a young kid picking locally, he went to the guy that bought his stepfathers guitar and made a deal to buy it back by paying it out in installments. It was about $1,200.00 I think. When he had payed for it, he gave it back to his step father. Now Billy Strings, a name given him by his grand mother, plays to HUGE, SOLD OUT CROWDS, OF MOSTLY YOUNG AMERICANS, that LOVE and apptreate this great music, and buy hign dollar tickets! His mintor, is Doc Watson, a blind from birth Guitar MASTER, that was self taught, and a LEGND IN THE MUSIC BUSINESS! Billy has a concert scheduled for June, 7th, at the BOK Center Tulsa! My son, grandson, furtue son in law, and I, pickers all, are going. I'm old and don't know how to post a video here, check him out on You-tube!! This kid is reaching young people in a way older performers never could, and I for one think that is GREAT!!!!!!</p></blockquote><p></p>

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