Tag: Stuart Duncan

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…

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:…

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…

Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale, Buddy and Jim, 2012 on New West

Great duet album from 2012 and what Rolling Stone called “Alt-Country’s Dream Team.” Mostly songs written by the paid together, some separately, and a few others: Jimmy McCracklin’s…