Billy Strings Lands Role in “King of the Hill” Reboot

The Texas-based animated series King of the Hill is back for an official 14th season after being cancelled by Fox nearly 16 years ago. The show was always unique for an animated series in how it actually showed the characters aging. The new season features a fully gown Bobby Hill, while Hank and Peggy have recently returned to the fictitious Arlen after living in Saudi Arabia a fictional eight years after the last episode.

The new 10-episode season is currently streaming on Hulu. King of the Hill featured quite a few country music icons throughout its original run, but this new series features one on every single episode. Bluegrass maestro Billy Strings was drafted to perform an updated theme song for the show’s outtro credits. The original intro theme song was performed by The Refreshments, and is officially called “Yahoos and Triangles” that was originally written and recorded for the show.

One of the endearing things about Billy Strings is that despite the esoteric and trippy nature of some of his bluegrass escapades, he’s always been a down-to-earth Michigan redneck at heart, dressing in camo, digging on NASCAR, and fishing whenever he can. Getting to officially perform the King of the Hill theme song has to be a bucket list moment Billy never knew he had until he was asked.

Billy’s backing band of Alex Hargreaves, Billy Failing, Jarrod Walker, Royal Massat, Jamie Dick, along with Billy Contreras also perform on the track.

The new series holds a 98% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and word is a new 15th season is already in the works. Aside from having to get used to the new voice of Dale Gribble after the passing of voice actor Johnny Hardwick halfway through production of the series, few gripes have gone up about the reboot.