Billy Strings - Uncloudy Day (Willie Nelson Cover)

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"Uncloudy Day" - Willie Nelson Cover
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@paullacy159 Жыл бұрын

If Billy played at church, id go to church.

@elliehjemmet 2 жыл бұрын

This wonderful song is in Public Domain, written by Josiah Kelley Atwood in 1879. Love this, Billy!

@YouT00ber 11 ай бұрын

It’s a beautiful song

@zaccotton83 3 жыл бұрын

the 4 dislikes are die hard atheist who just can't appreciate music for being music.

@gregorybrown4748 9 ай бұрын

I want this played at my funeral

@jimdawson5299 2 жыл бұрын

This is what you get when you pick one thing to do and give it your all, and practice, practice, and practice.

@55Cibby 3 жыл бұрын

I've been picking bluegrass for 56 years...just once for 5 minutes before I die I'd like to play like that...WOW!

@brianmarkl6671 3 жыл бұрын

I hear that! !!!!

@Jeff250lbc 3 жыл бұрын

Bet you hold your own anyways..

@jamesutley1352 3 жыл бұрын

Don’t bother going to the crossroads cause I did and when I asked the devil to make me play like Billy the devil just shook his head and walked away saying there ain’t no way

@sryburn641 3 жыл бұрын

That's the spirit!

@tinadee4931 3 жыл бұрын

I hear you, but come on, he's not like the second coming...

@peterweisz6973 3 жыл бұрын

Billy manages to pull of that most rare musical feat: He is fastidiously faithful to the roots of his tradition while at the same time elevating his performance to new levels of innovation. He is reverent of the past while blazing into the future.

@thaddeusk4230 3 жыл бұрын

Nice comment and so on the money.

@DrITunes 3 жыл бұрын

yeah you nailed it with the comment Billy is special in the best of ways

@peach495 3 жыл бұрын

contemporary while at the same time traditional. Very hard to pull that off. He nails it every time.

@patrickgleason2066 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely! You’ve described his music so well. Billy is a young man but he has an “old soul.”

@m.c.master4622 3 жыл бұрын

Peter Weisz, so beautifully said and so accurate. Thank you and thank Billy.

@billjenkins8748 3 жыл бұрын

My stepfather passed away today. Thank you for this Billy. RIP Papa

@spawn1086 3 жыл бұрын

So very sorry for your loss

@deanfletcher4962 3 жыл бұрын

❤️

@LoriWatson11 3 жыл бұрын

Sending love your way. ❤️

@billjenkins8748 3 жыл бұрын

@@spawn1086 thank you.

@billjenkins8748 3 жыл бұрын

@@LoriWatson11 thank you.

@JC-fj1bz 3 жыл бұрын

Billy sure can pick the hell out of a guitar but man he’s got one hell of a voice too

@jackfelix5140 3 жыл бұрын

I thought I observed alone

@jackfelix5140 3 жыл бұрын

Where are you texting from?

@bobbiewhite1647 3 жыл бұрын

Very rare talent for sure...

@skatetodeath666 3 жыл бұрын

Hes got it all

@markevans8461 3 жыл бұрын

#Facts #YouKnowDamnRight Amen! 🙏🏻 #BillyStringsTheGoat

@myrawinslow2944 3 жыл бұрын

I don’t care what song Billy does...it’s always GREAT.... 💞💞

@jackfelix5140 3 жыл бұрын

He's superbly great I must attest ,, where are you texting from?

@CHET1 3 жыл бұрын

My man won a Grammy! Whooo hooo

@BrandonPetrucci 3 жыл бұрын

I'm sure most here know how difficult it is to do what Billy is doing here which is holding down every part of a song, the melody, bass line, rhythm and laying down single note solos while making it so effortless and flowing perfectly. You're seeing decades of playing here considering he started at like 5 or 7? It's so amazing that he's just 28!

@bretthardin9239 3 жыл бұрын

Happy Birthday Willie !!!

@gatoryak7332 3 жыл бұрын

When I hear Billy play, I am reminded that he stands on the shoulders of giants. I also get the feeling that, someday, his shoulders will be the ones elevating the young hotshots. I'm old enough to have seen this play out with those who came before before and very glad for it. Watching Billy progress is an absolute joy. Don't take the opportunity for granted.

@Pinhead101 Жыл бұрын

That was beautifully written. I haven't seen him live yet...

@BURGRKNG 9 ай бұрын

He is a disciple of Doc in every way and I'm here for it. Doc was also like a human jukebox just like Billy has worked hard to become. You could probably ask him to play literally anything and he'll know it and do it his way

@MrSimhacker 3 жыл бұрын

My Brother's Wife died April 26th with cancer, and so I was thinking about him when I woke up this morning. She is being buried today and He is going through this time of bereavement down in Pensacola Florida where he is a teacher now on Base and He retired Master Chief of the Command thereafter 30 yrs, and I knew her pretty good because we were both stationed over in Yokosuka Japan for a few years and that is where he met her and she was a Japanese woman that lived in Tokyo. But I sent him this song in a messenger post and it is right as rain, and I hope he sees the hope of that uncloudy day and your song brings him some comfort. It is a cloudy day here but there are never any storms there.

@robertcrosby3456 3 жыл бұрын

@clintonneudorf1197 3 жыл бұрын

Please don't stop what you are doing. You have some serious talent son.

@cwfan2 5 ай бұрын

I love Billy Strings!

@nataliemartin2282 2 жыл бұрын

I cried when I heard this song because it's my grandpa's favorite song and he died :(

@MrZiggy-pm9rz 2 жыл бұрын

Billy is the greatest of the current generation and will likely become the standard for future flatpickers .... supplanting the great Doc Watson.

@darthhall2375 3 жыл бұрын

billy gets better and better

@bradrogers9739 3 жыл бұрын

Willie is just one of the many artist who released Unclouded day. It was written by Josiah Kelly in 1879 and was part of a new movement in Country Gospel music. It was first recorded and released by the Staples Singers in 1956 on Vee-Jay Records. That version was and inspiration to a young Bob Dylan who called it "the most mysterious thing I'd ever heard."

@tonywaber8482 3 жыл бұрын

Josiah Kelley Alwood in Morenci Michigan.

@yourturn777 3 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU. ✌😘

@jackfelix5140 3 жыл бұрын

This is greatness

@fredmichaels418 3 жыл бұрын

The following are Josiah Kelly Alwood's own words about the inspiration for the song as found in the "Christian Conservator", Feb. 26, 1896. "A Rainbow at Midnight and a Song with Morning" "It was a balmy night in August 1879, when returning from a debate in Spring Hill, Ohio, to my home in Morenci, Michigan, about 1 o'clock a.m. I saw a beautiful rainbow north by northwest agianst a dense black nimbus cloud. The sky was all perfect clear except this dark cloud which covered about forty degrees of the horizon and extented about halfway to the zenith. The phenomenon was entirely new to me and very lovely. I had traveled ten miles from the scene of mental toil, Morpheus was playing his sweetest lullaby. Another mile of travel, a few moments of time, a fellow of my size was ensconced in sweet home and wrapped in sweet sleep. A first class know-nothing till rosy-sweet morning was wide over the fields. "To awake and look abroad and rememeber the night was to be filled with sweet melody. A while at the organ brought forth a piece of muisc now known as "The Unclouded Day." A day and a half was bestowed on the melody and four stanzas."

@stv111play 2 жыл бұрын

1879 SONG SUCKED. I WAS THERE

@jacklegger3289 3 жыл бұрын

Willie wasn't born when this song was written.

@noogie3784 3 жыл бұрын

Gonna play this for my Dad. Thanks

@biomecaman3514 3 жыл бұрын

May you live forever. May you cross that river.

@brunogasperin 3 жыл бұрын

I press the like button before listening. I already know that good stuff are coming. Cheers from Brasil.

@jackfelix5140 3 жыл бұрын

We've gat a connection Lol,,cus I literally did same

@stevenarmstrong5364 3 жыл бұрын

Come to brazil

@mikegregory2535 3 жыл бұрын

Just when you thought he could not get better.

@rylieriley 3 жыл бұрын

All I see in Billy are talent and sincerity. And when I say talent, I mean something very, very special. To say that I enjoy Billy's music, especially his original songs, is an extreme understatement.

@jackfelix5140 3 жыл бұрын

We both see same thing dear. He's just so good, have you seen him live before?

@briansaenz4392 3 жыл бұрын

Young old people. Fan since you're video of your couch performing dust in a baggie. Great music from a Southern Man

@CrystalTwinStar 3 жыл бұрын

Feeling all alone once again when I really need a friend, I take my shower and then go for a walk. When I got in the shower the sun was shining. While in the shower, my whole sorrowful situation passed through my mind. No friends Legally blind and can't drive. Getting ready to have eye surgery and feeling overwhelmed with so much to do and remember. Missing my mom. She's been gone six years and I feel orphaned with out her. Missing my True love who loves me to but struggling with his feelings. All of this overtook me at once and I started sobbing. When I got out of the shower, we were having a downpour and I thought it was interesting how the skies were joining me in my sorrow. Thank you for playing this Billy. It's all gonna be alright. Blessings to your band, your family friends and fans, but most especially, blessings to you. You are truly an earth angel. ❤

@jackfelix5140 3 жыл бұрын

I feel what you feel most times too, dear crystal, he sings to soul and reality, Billy is a blessing. Where are you texting from?

@jeansherburne4492 2 жыл бұрын

He has a unique voice

@markphelps8003 3 жыл бұрын

The GOAT singing a song by THE GOATFATHER. How does it get better??? Love you Billy!!!

@tonymyers862 3 жыл бұрын

Ha ! The Goatfather!

@tonymyers862 3 жыл бұрын

Greatest Of All Time !!

@tonymyers862 3 жыл бұрын

Michael Jordan is a GOAT. Mike Tyson is a GOAT.

@markphelps8003 3 жыл бұрын

@@tonymyers862I'll compliment talent any way I please. Billy String is the best flat pickin guitar player on this planet. Bar none!!!

@markphelps8003 3 жыл бұрын

@Texan waffen Billy Strings is the GOAT! . My opinion. Deal with it.

@BarefootBill 3 жыл бұрын

I know there's a bunch of intermediate guitarist who will gain a ton of knowledge from this video. Billy doesn't have to hide his guitar work, he's begging you to give it a try by showing you exactly how he is playing it. Good Job! From a lifelong Willie fan and neighbor.

@ms-hi9hs 3 жыл бұрын

So true William

@Upstreamprovider 3 жыл бұрын

I'm one of those guitarists, my friend. Maybe not even intermediate, but this guy has recently inspired me SO much. He's like a Bodhisattva of the Guitar! x

@enterthedragon7685 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! Good one there!

@dianajadu534 3 жыл бұрын

Willie + Billy = ❤️

@BarefootBill 3 жыл бұрын

Yep, I gotta agree with that!

@jackfelix5140 3 жыл бұрын

The realest combination ever

@tkreitler 3 жыл бұрын

It's been a rough day for my family. This is not only beautiful, but timely. Best wishes to you Billy.

@elvinaescobar 2 жыл бұрын

This is the way I like you best Billy.

@joshrhyne2460 3 жыл бұрын

Billy what??? Get it son they shout!! Billy..”done”

@BillSnocker 3 ай бұрын

Wonderful song, done so fine, Billy! Guess I gotta keep on workin at it!

@RS-et2hb 2 жыл бұрын

You are the light brother brighter than any cloud . Kash st cloud FL aka Soulja city

@daven432 3 жыл бұрын

See ya in Louisville

@Appalachained 2 жыл бұрын

Top of the line! I can’t put my finger on it, but I hear Doc Watson in Billy Stings.

@ladyofthewoods2448 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Billy.

@tinadee4931 3 жыл бұрын

I'd like to go to the place where no storm clouds rise, yeah I'd like an uncloudy day...

@huliniswhoiam 5 ай бұрын

Get right with the Lord and you will.

@solztice6460 3 жыл бұрын

I'm a simple woman. I see a video of Billy Strings covering Willie Nelson, I click on it.

@K131399 3 жыл бұрын

His facebook live uploads are my favorite things. Full band stuff is fantastic of course but the facebook live stuff with a good set of headphones is pretty much like sitting down with him.

@solztice6460 3 жыл бұрын

@@K131399 I don't have Facebook :( but no doubt that his lives are a good time!

@K131399 3 жыл бұрын

@@solztice6460 They're on youtube just search Billy facebook live and enoy.

@jackfelix5140 3 жыл бұрын

I actually admire simple women,,but I guess this stuff is for hard women lol.

@K131399 3 жыл бұрын

@Billy Strings official It's a trip watching you dude! You got me playing hard again.

@ChaseDennis-fp3sh Жыл бұрын

Praying for ya. Nice job. Love this song.

@mp-xe7ky 11 ай бұрын

BRAVO. When I see young people bringing old music like this back to today it gives me hope about the future young generation. This is so well done. And BTW you will skyrocket now that you have been featured in the War Room and given kudos by Steve Bannon. Thank you young man. Excellent job.

@wissmo2122 11 ай бұрын

he's already there take a look at some of his live concerts

@jdthompson5778 11 ай бұрын

I’m a War Room fan too! And love music! First I had heard of Billy this week but I’m in now! This young man is a fantastic talent! Thankful Steve played this video all week!! I’ll be buying some albums now that’s for sure!!

@timgervais1395 3 жыл бұрын

Go Kid I just Love Ya Your fan form Canada The old guy TIM!!

@Nancy-mg3uc 3 жыл бұрын

I think like most of us, Billy has his favorite songs and takes a deep dive into them. No matter how long you have been playing, take that deep dive into the songs you know and feel and with what you know how to play. It will come across the same. You will inspire others as well. I love this song, and yes he can play a lot fancier than me, but the inspiration is the same. I love Billy Strings for preserving that aspect of Americana music.

@thomasgricezodiac Жыл бұрын

I love willie's original, and this is a suitable homage

@michaelshelby1445 2 жыл бұрын

Mighty fine mighty fine!

@shanett7337 11 ай бұрын

Great voice to a great song.

@babswright2664 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video Billy.

@donnad6870 3 жыл бұрын

Yes!!!!!!

@jasongavel2787 3 жыл бұрын

How about a full gospel album Billy 😁👍 it would be great

@joemc7614 3 жыл бұрын

ABSOLUTELY!!! AMEN!!

@CorneiliusLibowitz 3 жыл бұрын

How 'bout him and the boys put out a Klezmer album?

@e.m.8094 3 жыл бұрын

TOTALLY!!! 🙏

@waterwixxxer 3 жыл бұрын

I’d preorder that for MSRP.

@ryanwasserman6929 3 жыл бұрын

Seconded.

@pamcole8949 10 ай бұрын

So soothing for my weary soul...beautiful!!!

@fredwilley5931 3 жыл бұрын

I can be having a crappy day and watch you pick and a calm will come over me. Thank you for sharing your gift.

@jackfelix5140 2 жыл бұрын

Same here bro

@debraromano2160 3 жыл бұрын

This boy has got it going on....

@debraromano2160 3 жыл бұрын

100$ for Apple valley shows a bit pricey....being a local how about the guest list....got purple kush....

@ME-xq8bg 2 жыл бұрын

He’s just fucking amazing singer and guitar player! Wow! ❤️🇨🇦

@kylemorse6644 11 ай бұрын

Just heard this song for the first time on Steve Bannon’s War Room show. Great tune wish I can pick it up on ITunes.

@YouT00ber 6 ай бұрын

Same. Great song.

@ChaseDennis-fp3sh Жыл бұрын

This song with be played at my funeral.

@billwilliams8783 Жыл бұрын

Can’t believe I play the same instrument as this guy man🤷🏻‍♂️👍🏼🤣

@paulaspeier3493 3 жыл бұрын

Honestly.....wow!

@rocdarjargm 3 жыл бұрын

See you in Denver in October

@YouT00ber 11 ай бұрын

This is a great performance

@brandondarrin4947 Жыл бұрын

Impeccable precision.😢

@K131399 3 жыл бұрын

I've been begging for more facebook live type stuff where it's just him pluckin out some old tunes which in my opinion are the greatest things on youtube!!!

@beethovenian 3 жыл бұрын

Agreed! A solo record would be amazing too!

@K131399 3 жыл бұрын

@@beethovenian A solo record would be awesome for sure but him sitting there joking around and showing you what he's thinking about with his between-song noodling is so cool.

@bigchestflex 3 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree mmore. I'll join the begging

@tanyaraven9492 2 жыл бұрын

@@bigchestflex Count me in, too.

@multitoolish 3 жыл бұрын

Grew up listening to my grandpa singing this and many more old gospel and Hank Sr songs. Thanks for bringing back those precious memories!!!! Thankful to you sir

@anelladambrosio2513 9 ай бұрын

Bravoooooo!amo questa canzone!la tua voce e molto bella!😊🤗😍😘🎶🎸🎶💘💓💋💯🌅

@excelframpton 3 жыл бұрын

I was here !

@moxin9885 3 жыл бұрын

Best intro ever... It's someone's cloudy day billy and in accordance they'll smile or cry... Peace from the southeast....

@masansr 3 жыл бұрын

I hope to have a guitar one day like Willie Nelson's. It's a legend on it's own. My guitar has stories, his have sagas.

@ralterjegoutube 3 жыл бұрын

BillyStrings is someone I love.

@ralterjegoutube 3 жыл бұрын

@Billy Strings official Listening to you do something new and special with a genre makes me happy and a believer that music still have inventors and a bright future outside the recycled bs you hear. You are also an exeptional musician, thank you for the music, and thanks for the comment, love.

@ralterjegoutube 3 жыл бұрын

@Billy Strings official I just want to give a quote from one of the most respected , for me, humans that I in my short time on this planet, has had the pleasure to give me inspiration fior how to live my life. When music hits you it is fantastic, ’redacted version’, Bob Marley, apart from other hits, your music hit me and it is fantastic. I am from a small island in the nordic countries, I’ll give you more infomation but I’m a person who don’t necesserily need to talk about myself, that is your job as an artist.

@ralterjegoutube 3 жыл бұрын

@Billy Strings official I am texting from a small Island called Heaven. I am so glad that you recognise me and my love for you. You are one of the best guitarist I have heard,. I have listened to a lot of guitarists and you are exceptional, but I know you know that. Love.

@ralterjegoutube 3 жыл бұрын

@Billy Strings official I am an islander, I am so glad that you are what you sing, a humble loving person, thank you.

@jadonharrison8491 3 жыл бұрын

I woke up in the middle of the night having an anxiety attack and this is helping me calm back down.

@joncorrellattorney 2 жыл бұрын

Made me tear up. I'm a long way from my Blue Ridge Mountains

@mikerunyan1 3 жыл бұрын

Checking in

@PINEPUPPY 3 жыл бұрын

damn Billy...you are SO good...

@jackfelix5140 2 жыл бұрын

Damn good,, you play too?

@rogueyardgnome3090 3 жыл бұрын

never thought id be such a fan of someone until i heard you man

@rodhorncastle 3 жыл бұрын

One of my favourite songs EVER written. Thanks Billy. Freakin' Awesome!

@jackfelix5140 2 жыл бұрын

Same here

@betsylawson8809 2 жыл бұрын

I die for this video! Amazing.

@brettlazor8219 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful playing on a beautiful Martin by a beautiful soul

@jackfelix5140 3 жыл бұрын

💞 so sweet

@DG-wu7ke 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Billy

@ethanmarek2399 3 жыл бұрын

Goat

@zoysiaguy3757 2 жыл бұрын

Killed it

@danroose3813 3 жыл бұрын

Gonna play this for our family reunion to honor our lost one's this month of may the 15th ☮👏 Thankyou Billy

@jackfelix5140 3 жыл бұрын

That will be amazing, it's well deserved

@danroose3813 3 жыл бұрын

@@jackfelix5140 We did it last weekend in the hills of Tennessee and not a dry eye in the entire crowd

@jackfelix5140 3 жыл бұрын

@@danroose3813 that's awesome, hope it went well for ya?

@enterthedragon7685 3 жыл бұрын

When everybody thought AI was taking over and musical instruments were becoming redundant, Billy has become a hope for mankind!! 🤎

@jackfelix5140 3 жыл бұрын

So true,

@homeone4189 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@smokinjamgrass 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks again Billy. Always impressed with how much honor there is when you cover songs.

@jackfelix5140 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Jolie , a big fan?

@hicks78 3 жыл бұрын

Happy Birthday Willie! ❤️

@TheFeelButton 3 жыл бұрын

Nice pickin! Cheers Billy!!

@jackfelix5140 2 жыл бұрын

The picking is truly amazing

@denisecantrell3198 8 ай бұрын

Perfection

@jennifermaxfieldore4609 3 жыл бұрын

Song from my childhood. Tears in my eyes thinking of loved ones who’ve gone on to find their “unclouded days’. love this version! 🙏 🙏 🙏

@jackfelix5140 3 жыл бұрын

Ya it gives me similar feelings and memories too, Billy is just as good.

@jackfelix5140 3 жыл бұрын

Where are you texting from?

@jennifermaxfieldore4609 3 жыл бұрын

@@jackfelix5140 Beautiful Appalachia. I can remember guitars and banjos coming out at family get-togethers and church picnics when I was a kid. This was one of many songs my dad (and whoever else had an instrument along) played and sang!

@jennifermaxfieldore4609 3 жыл бұрын

@Billy Strings official You’re very welcome! Keep the incredible music coming!

@jackfelix5140 2 жыл бұрын

@@jennifermaxfieldore4609 where are u texting from gorgeous lady?

@chupachabra 3 жыл бұрын

That's fucking Gold right there folk's Billy if you come to Slovenia we Will go fishing and smoking my friend

@chupachabra 3 жыл бұрын

@Billy Strings official i sent you an e-mail 🤗

@S.P.A.R.K.Y. 3 жыл бұрын

Way up yonder, ya big ol heart! 🌂🦅

@jimclarke1108 3 жыл бұрын

Superb guitarist

@oakharborfarm9974 3 жыл бұрын

You're a gift to this world Billy. Thank you for sharing

@geraldlowe2652 2 жыл бұрын

This guy is unbelievable. Some one to carry on bluegrass. I hope all the greats that are gone can hear him.

@gdbruin777 3 жыл бұрын

I swear that every cover he does is better that the original. What a talent.

@muzikmind77 3 жыл бұрын

Well I'd say you were wrong as fuck but yea it sounds pretty good...

@georgehays4900 2 жыл бұрын

Greatness.

@brad349miller Ай бұрын

Woke up with this song in my head today. This is the first video I've seen that gave the song any semblance of life.

@Wootangtw 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome buddy...

@presliewilliams4999 3 жыл бұрын

I’m so in love it hurts

@jackfelix5140 2 жыл бұрын

You are meant to be loved dear Where are you texting from?