Tag: Sturgill Simpson
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Margo Price, That’s How Rumors Get Started, 2020 on Loma Vista
Price’s third studio album, produced by Sturgill Simpson (with Price and David Ferguson) and released in July of 2010 during the pandemic. I’ve been a fan since her debut – smart songwriting in a traditional storytelling country way but with a modern take. Now going back and learning the back-catalog via Buffalo Clover. My copy—via…
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Sturgill Simpson, The Ballad of Dood & Juanita, 2021 on High Top Mountain Records
The seventh studio album from Sturgill Simpson with guest Willie Nelson on “Juanita.” A concept album set in Kentucky during the Civil War, this may be the last album under his own name. I just love Simpson’s approach to music and composition as well as the whole band here, which includes: Sierra Hull, Stuart Duncan,…
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Sturgill Simpson, Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 2: The Cowboy Arms Sessions, 2020 on High Top Mountain
Follow up to Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 1, released a couple of months later. More bluegrass renditions of Simpson’s catalog. The band again includes many well known bluegrass musicians: Stuart Duncan, Sierra Hull, Miles Miller, Mark Howard, Tim O’Brien, Scott Vestal,and Mike Bub. Although there isn’t an explicit recorded-at credit, The Cowboy Arms is Jack Clement’s…
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Sturgill Simpson, Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 1 (The Butcher Shoppe Sessions), 2020 on High Top Mountain Records
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…
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Sturgill Simpson, High Top Mountain, 2013 on High Top Mountain Records.
This was Sturgill’s solo debut, self-funded and produced by Dave Cobb, with an outlaw country feel and some Nashville session players like Hargus “Pig” Robbins on keys and Robby Turner and Leroy Powell on Steel Guitar. Tremendous debut and auspicious of good things to come. My copy is the Vinyl Me Please 10th anniversary reissue…
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Sturgill Simpson, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, 2014 on High Top Mountain Records
Sturgill Simpson, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, 2014 on High Top Mountain Records Vinyl Me, Please reissue. You can’t fool me, it’s turtles all the way down Produced by Dave Cobb Great cover of “The Promise” by When In Rome and Buford Abner’s “Long White Line”