Highway Prayers

Highway Prayers was met with universal acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 83, based on six reviews. AllMusic's Timothy Monger praised the album, resuming: "Highway 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". Will Hermes of Rolling Stone wrote: "an 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". Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Pitchfork'' stated: "he'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". ==Track listing==

Musicians • Billy Strings – vocals, guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar, resonator guitar, EBow electric guitar, steel guitar, mandolin, banjo, bass, keyboard, percussion, shaker, whistle • Billy Failing – banjo, backing vocals • Royal Masat – bass, backing vocals • Jarrod Walker – mandolin, mandocello, tenor guitar, backing vocals • Alex Hargreaves – fiddle, mandolin Additional musicians • Jon Brion – bass, drums, percussion • Jason Carter – fiddle • Matt Chamberlain – drums • Jerry Douglas – dobro • Victor Furtado – banjo • Cory Henry – piano • Lindsay Lou – backing vocals • Peter "Madcat" Ruth – harmonica, jaw harp • Taneka Samone – backing vocals • Nathaniel Smith – cello Production • Produced by Billy Strings and Jon Brion • Additional production: Brandon Bell • Engineering: Greg Koller, Brandon Bell, Gary Paczosa • Engineering assistance: Chaz Saxon, Joe Caldwell, Jason Tobias, Skylar Chuckry • Editing: Eric Caudieux • Mixing: Greg Koller • Mastering: Patricia Sullivan • Photography: Dana Trippe • Design, layout, concept: Billy Strings, Bill Orner ==Charts==