Billy Strings couldn’t say goodbye to his mother. He never got the chance to say goodbye to the woman who raised him. “It was a sad thing that I didn’t get to say goodbye,” he recalls to the New York Times. Billy Strings’ mother created the art for the cover of his new album, So Much for Goodbyes (Image credit: Cover art)His mother’s influence is less obvious on some of the other tracks, but it’s there all the same. | The Interview - YouTube Watch OnHer presence is perhaps most tangible on the album cover itself, which was created by his mother.