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1. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Noah Berlatsky

   ALBUM REVIEW: Billy Strings Mourns His Mother on 'So Much for Goodbyes' (opens the original)

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   So Much for Goodbyes, the fifth studio album from bluegrass guitarist/singer/songwriter Billy Strings, is dedicated to his mother Debra Apostol, who died suddenly in 2025 of a methamphetamine overdose. Produced by T-Bone Burnett, the record is, as you’d expect given the context, a more somber effort than Strings’ sprawling, swaggering, ambitiously open-hearted 2024 masterpiece Highway Prayers. Where Prayers blew bluegrass up to swallow rock, country, and the rest of the world, So Much for Goodby

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2. Article · Jul 13, 2026 · Noah Berlatsky

   ALBUM REVIEW: Aaron Lee Tasjan Celebrates the Outsiders and Also-Rans on 'Get Over It, Underdog' (opens the original)

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   Aaron Lee Tasjan makes horny, queer cosmic American music that treats The Beatles as a core roots band. His most upbeat songs — like “Lost & Alone” on his new release, Get Over It, Underdog — hit with the soaring sheen of a smarter, more jaded Full Moon Fever-era Tom Petty. “Here comes a runaway train / Of thought that’s breaking my brain,” Tasjan sings with his distinctive nasal burr, all jangle uplift and jittery neurosis. Beyond that irresistible track, though, the album doesn’t have the same

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