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UncutDec 9, 2024He’s got a trippy sense of humour (sampling a bong hit on “MORBUD4ME”), but there’s a pervasive melancholy running songs like “In The Clear” and “Gild The Lily”, as though what he leaves behind is just as important as what he discovers on that endless highway. [Jan 2024, p.40]
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MojoNov 21, 2024Mostly Highway Prayers is a thrillingly modern bluegrass album for people who don’t even like bluegrass. [Jan 2025, p.88]
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Oct 3, 2024Highway Prayers is too long -- there is a fantastic 40-minute album in there -- but it's also a lot of fun, and it may take a young superstar like Strings to bend and stretch bluegrass enough to deliver it to the masses.
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Oct 3, 2024While Highway Prayers may surprise some fans due to its genuine old-school bluegrass environs, it ultimately stands as yet another testament to Strings’ unmatched artistic genius.
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Oct 3, 2024An impressive 20-track album that recalls the days when old-timey hybrids like Old and in the Way and Will the Circle Be Unbroken sat proudly alongside country-rock classics like Workingman’s Dead, Desperado, and Eat a Peach on American record shelves.
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Oct 3, 2024He’s finding new aural and emotional textures within a familiar genre. Those fresh sounds are married to the sturdiest set of songs Strings has written, with defined melodies distinguished by flashes of empathy and wit.