{
  "id": 302656,
  "title": "Billy Strings Escaped the Darkness. He’s Playing to Not Go Back.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/08/billy-strings-escaped-the-darkness-hes-playing-to-not-go-back",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-08T09:15:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The New York Times",
    "slug": "the-new-york-times",
    "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/magazine/billy-strings-interview.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The genre-straddling musician could have been lost to addiction and trauma. Instead he’s filling arenas.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}