Billy Strings Joins Jarrod Walker’s Suwannee Mountain Boys At Nashville’s Basement East [Videos]

Jamgrass supergroup Suwannee Mountain Boys staged a rare performance at Nashville’s Basement East on Wednesday, welcoming Billy Strings and members of Shadowgrass, Mountain Grass Unit, and East Nash Grass.

The Suwannee Mountain Boys are helmed by several offspring of Florida’s Walker clan: brothers Jarrod Walker (mandolin, Billy Strings), Cory Walker (banjo, East Nash Grass), and Tyler Walker (guitar). Additionally, the band features founding Grass Is Dead banjoist Billy Gilmore on guitar, longtime Del McCoury Band/Travelin’ McCourys bassist Alan Bartram, and his newly added bandmate in both projects, Christian Ward, on fiddle. Even with all that star power already onstage, the Suwannee Mountain Boys invited friends from throughout Music City and beyond to join them for a sold-out pickathon at the Basement East.

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Though Billy Strings is ostensibly off until February 2026 when his Southeast winter tour kicks off in Athens, GA, the arena-filling jamgrass posterchild still dropped in for some sit-ins. He led the band through original instrumental “Runnin’ The Route”, penned by Jarrod and Christian Ward and released on 2021’s Renewal.

It wasn’t long, however, before the intimate stage swelled up with more players. Joining the circle were Shadowgrass guitarist Kyser George, Cory Walker’s East Nash Grass bandmate Harry Clark on mandolin, and even more mandolin from Mountain Grass Unit’s Drury Anderson. Despite, or perhaps because of, being the young man on the totem pole, recent college grad Anderson took lead vocals on “Blue Virginia Blues”.

Check out some videos from the jam-packed Suwannee Mountain Boys show in Nashville last night, featuring sit-ins from Billy Strings, Kyser George, Harry Clark, and Drury Anderson.

Suwannee Mountain Boys, Billy Strings — “Runnin’ The Route” — 12/17/25
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Suwannee Mountain Boys, Drury Anderson — “Blue Virginia Blues” (Larry Sparks) — 12/17/25
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Suwannee Mountain Boys — “I’m Lost, I’ll Never Find The Way” (Carter Stanley) — 12/17/25
[Video: Tennessee Ed]