Billy Strings has shared a new song “10,000 Miles From a Friend,” the latest offering from his forthcoming studio album, So Much for Goodbyes. The 16-track LP, which is slated for release on Friday, August 28 via Reprise Records, was produced by Strings and T Bone Burnett and finds the guitarist channeling a “deeply personal period into his most musically mature and reflective body of work to date.” The record is accompanied by original artwork created by Strings’ late mother, Debra Apostol, who passed away last year. In addition to the track, Strings has shared a video for the song, which can be found below.
“I made this record to honor my mother,” Strings said in a statement. “To notice and embrace this very significant period of grief in my life and make art from it. To turn my heartbreak into songs while using my guitar as a coping mechanism as I always have. It’s always been there for me to lean on through the hard times, and I figure it always will…until it’s my time to say goodbye.”
“10,000 Miles From A Friend” has already been in Strings’ concert rotation for a bit—he first debuted it at Chula Vista, CA’s North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre on May 15, 2025, during a spot on the Outlaw Music Festival tour and has already played it live around 20 times.
Earlier this summer Strings shared the first glimpses of the new studio set, “Mill Town Flood” and “Burn the Other End,” and he has continued to debut the new material while on the road. He will host his Ionia Freak Fair at Ionia, MI’s Ionia County Fairgrounds the weekend of the record’s release, August 28 and 29.
