The week Sturgill Simpson’s breakthrough, generation-defining second album, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, was released, the Number One song on country radio was Brantley Gilbert’s ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About halfway through his new album, Sturgill Simpson sings about identity. In a tune aptly titled “Who I Am,” he tempers a sense ...
Country music singer Sturgill Simpson is on tour and has two upcoming shows in Alabama. Simpson will perform at The Wharf Amphitheater in Orange Beach on April 8 before making his way to the Legacy ...
Shortly after releasing Dood & Juanita, Simpson ruptured his vocal cords and left the road for the foreseeable future. An hour-and-a-half into Friday’s marathon gig, Simpson paused to say hello, shout ...
It is Friday, which means new music. NPR's music editor Daoud Tyler-Ameen and critic and correspondent Ann Powers have listened to a lot of the albums out today, and they have a roundup for us. First ...
A decade following the breakout success of his May 2014-released album "Metamodern Sounds in Country Music," Sturgill Simpson has announced not just his forthcoming eighth album — July 12's "Passage ...
Sturgill Simpson is currently captivating audiences on his headlining Who the F*** Is Johnny Blue Skies? tour, which features epic three-hour performances and runs through May. Sturgill rose to ...
Sturgill Simpson clearly stated that he planned to release five albums as a solo artist and walk away. True to his word, he dropped his fifth and final album, The Ballad of Dood & Juanita in 2021 and ...
17 years before Sturgill Simpson said that Jerry Garcia saved his life, I heard the word “Deadhead” for the first time. It was a word I didn’t know the meaning of until much, much later in my life, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You remember how that Irving Berlin standard went, don’t you? “Blue skies smiling at me. Nothing but blue skies do I see.” Well, ...
About halfway through his new album, Sturgill Simpson sings about identity. In a tune aptly titled “Who I Am,” he tempers a sense of loss with “comfort in just knowing nothing ever stays the same.” ...