Sturgill Simpson is one of my favorite contemporary artists, who generally gets classified as a Country artist but here breaks out into bluegrass. The Butcher Shoppe is actually a studio in Nashville set up by David Ferguson and John Prine. (There’s also a Nashville studio called The Butcher Shop, operated by Butch Walker).

The band includes Scott Vestal, Stuart Duncan, Sierra Hull, Miles Miller, Mark Howard, and Tim O’Brien – some very strong bluegrass bona fides in that room.

These are bluegrass versions of Sturgill Simpson songs, so you get “Turtles All The Way Down” and “Life Ain’t Far and the World is Mean” and “Sitting Here Without You.”

My copy via a record fair at Mill No. 5 in Lowell MA