His cover of "The Promise" is stunning.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Sunday, 28 September 2014 06:27 (nine years ago) link
Hard or soft 'G'?
― Fine Toothcomb (sonofstan), Sunday, 19 October 2014 15:10 (nine years ago) link
Hard
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 19 October 2014 15:21 (nine years ago) link
Ta. Liking Metamodern Sounds on first listen
― Fine Toothcomb (sonofstan), Sunday, 19 October 2014 15:35 (nine years ago) link
Yeah it's pretty great
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 19 October 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
Just got it the other day myself. Not disappointed.
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 19 October 2014 16:36 (nine years ago) link
"Yeah, after many of my friends raving about him, when I got around to hearing him he's kinda like honky tonk Eddie Vedder."
thanks for ruining the recod for me now!
― nostormo, Thursday, 30 October 2014 21:46 (nine years ago) link
I liked it a lot when I first heard it, and I guess I still do, but it kind of feels like he uses the exact same songwriting trick on every song.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 October 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link
That thing where the verse sticks on the I with a little V7 thrown in and then the chorus comes a-roarin in on the IV
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 October 2014 21:48 (nine years ago) link
he uses the exact same songwriting trick on every song
hallmark of classic songwriting
― j., Thursday, 30 October 2014 21:51 (nine years ago) link
well, few country singers have the Gene Clark/Parsons talent.
i think the production is somewhat too clean and upfront.
― nostormo, Thursday, 30 October 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link
still, it's better than most of the genre
Yeah I found it really refreshing when I first got into it, then I just bored of it quickly because it felt so samey. But it has a great sound and some great lyrics.
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 30 October 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
Haha sorry, I'm not even entirely sure where my Vedder comparison came from! Sturgill's not yarly at all so much as mumbly. There's definitely stuff about him I like though.
― Deliciously hard yet very accessible (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 30 October 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
i have found myself returning more to the last one even though i normally have a little bit of a year-end-list mania that keeps me focused on new releases instead. probably he seems less awesomely fatalistic on the newer one otherwise i'd spin it.
― j., Thursday, 30 October 2014 22:11 (nine years ago) link
wait ... hard G? is that really right?
― alpine static, Thursday, 30 October 2014 22:49 (nine years ago) link
I doubt it
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 October 2014 22:50 (nine years ago) link
rhymes with gurgle? c'mon now
http://www.pronouncenames.com/pronounce/sturgill
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 October 2014 22:51 (nine years ago) link
http://youtu.be/_70HJMikcBo?t=2m46s
― j., Thursday, 30 October 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
dude's got pipes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eWJmN8D820
― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 6 November 2014 04:22 (nine years ago) link
Simpson's guitarist is really good. I love the solo on this one. I'd have to figure they are using the studio echo chamber on the solo, being that is a famous one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK4UFSNGRdE
― earlnash, Thursday, 6 November 2014 05:15 (nine years ago) link
FYI I live in Kentucky where this guy is a something of a local hero and I've never heard it pronounced any way other than to rhyme with 'Virgil.'
Album is great, hope he continues in the 'Reptilian overlords and DMT' mode, and hope he keeps whoever is playing lead guitar on this thing, damn.
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Thursday, 6 November 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
Yeah his lead player is siiiiick as fuuuuuck
― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Thursday, 6 November 2014 14:18 (nine years ago) link
good interview with the guitarist: http://www.thefader.com/2014/09/18/another-country-interview-laur-joamets-sturgill-simpsons-estonian-guitarist
― Heez, Thursday, 6 November 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
sturgill's a damn good guitarist too.
― Heez, Thursday, 6 November 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
opening for Willie seems like a no-brainer
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 6 November 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
i've been off the country wavelengths for a while but just took a listen to this - as good as advertised!
― a dude eating another dude's leg in front of that dude (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:39 (nine years ago) link
his voice is very much in the classic merle mode and i can totally dig it
― a dude eating another dude's leg in front of that dude (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
as anyone points out, correctly, he sounds a LOT like waylon
i'm not even a drug fiend but the lyrics to turtles all the way down are fantastic
― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 6 November 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
estonian dude is becoming an american pretty quick when he says things like "amen to that"
― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 6 November 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
next interview he'll be all "you're darn tootin!"
― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 6 November 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
There must be a hundred guitar pickers in Nashville muttering 'coming over here, taking our jobs' like some UKIP neanderthal in a dead English seaside town...
― Fine Toothcomb (sonofstan), Thursday, 6 November 2014 23:43 (nine years ago) link
saw these guys open for Willie Nelson last night and they were straight fire. Laur Joamets is indeed an amazing guitarist, he was very much the star of the show, although Sturgill is a pretty sick guitarist too.
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 15:36 (nine years ago) link
Xpost There seem to be a lot of Aussies in Nashville.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 19:32 (nine years ago) link
i like him fine, but i'm reactionary wrt his rise in popularity - a) i'm not so fond of the voice (nor waylon's, of which he's too derivative), and b) he's caught too much of the dudebro-ish fetish for rock-enough-to-not-be-uncool "outlaw"/druggy country males that usually extends to dreck like Hank 3 and rarely crosses the gender barrier
― Banned on the Run (benbbag), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 23:16 (nine years ago) link
i'm kind of a fan but he's not as good as probably a dozen other current country artists i can think of off the top of my head tbh
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 23:19 (nine years ago) link
and the backlash begins
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 23:28 (nine years ago) link
I think he's great. He's a great musician, his band is great, I like his singing and I like the songs he covers along with his originals. I like Waylon, and I like that he is not afraid to sound like Waylon. I don't get a dudebro vibe from him at all, if anything there's sort of a jam band thing going on at times.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 1 January 2015 03:17 (nine years ago) link
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Wednesday, December 31, 2014 6:19 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
want this list
― man alive, Thursday, 1 January 2015 03:23 (nine years ago) link
i think it's right to be wary of the "i hate all current country music, but i like this" line that so often accompanies praise of sturgill simpson, but that has very little or nothing to do with sturgill simpson.
i'm a little amazed that a country fan can dislike waylon's voice (see benbbag above), but i have enough non-acquired tastes to give it a pass, i suppose. (btw christgau didn't like waylon's voice much either.) but i think waylon's voice is a thing of beauty, and as much as i love strugill simpson, he can't (yet) approach it in subtlety and flexibility.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 1 January 2015 03:40 (nine years ago) link
I'm a country fan always suspicious of Waylon. Not hard. A fair amount of outlaw bathos.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 January 2015 03:43 (nine years ago) link
Btw this guy closer to early eighties "Big City" Hag.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 January 2015 03:44 (nine years ago) link
I'll totally cop to not being a country fan and being hardly familiar with Waylon and having never heard of Sturgill Simpson prior to last night. Still was a good show though...
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Thursday, 1 January 2015 03:45 (nine years ago) link
i guess i go so deep with waylon -- i think i have every LP of his, at least up until the late 80s -- that i forget about the whole outlaw thing, which is really not a huge part of his oeuvre all told, even if it defined his public persona for a lot of people.
watch this and see if you don't love it -- his singing, the drumming, his minimalist guitar solo, everything:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1-_cZoUOEE
― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 1 January 2015 03:47 (nine years ago) link
(that's from the pre-outlaw period, before he grew a beard, obv.)
― man alive, Wednesday, December 31, 2014 10:23 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Laura CantrellBrandy Clark(Drive-By Truckers)Merle Haggard(Jason Isbell)Miranda LambertAshley MonroeKacey MusgravesWillie NelsonBrad PaisleyAngaleena PresleyBilly Joe Shaver(Lucinda Williams)
― Banned on the Run (benbbag), Friday, 2 January 2015 00:47 (nine years ago) link
I don't get a dudebro vibe from him at all, if anything there's sort of a jam band thing going on at times.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, December 31, 2014 10:17 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That's exactly what, or who, I meant by dudebro. Perhaps I've misunderstand the term.
― Banned on the Run (benbbag), Friday, 2 January 2015 00:49 (nine years ago) link
last track on metamodern is fucking brilliant
― soyrev, Friday, 2 January 2015 00:53 (nine years ago) link
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, December 31, 2014 10:40 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I don't dislike Waylon's voice, I just don't have a particular like for it, even as I've recognized or even admired its fine quality at times. There's something a bit too good old boy-ish in its mix of basso, molasses, and, perhaps crucially, certainty that sets off my regional prejudice along with political suspicions in a way that the more wavering John Anderson's, say, does not. I mean, I find Randy Travis' politics pretty offensive, but I don't find them suggested much by the sound of his voice, which I sometimes love.
― Banned on the Run (benbbag), Friday, 2 January 2015 00:55 (nine years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/VO5RLEP.jpg
― Non stop chantar (crüt), Sunday, 29 September 2019 15:19 (four years ago) link
my review of this album after listening to about 15 seconds: sounds like kings of leon and the mixing is shit
― Non stop chantar (crüt), Sunday, 29 September 2019 15:21 (four years ago) link
ice cold
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Sunday, 29 September 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link
I totally thought Kings of Leon too.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 29 September 2019 15:47 (four years ago) link
Finally listening, sounds okay to me, if maybe a little too 1990s. Would have been cool if he went totally radical and paid RZA to produce or something. Does sound like the sort of album to be totally missed or forgotten and rediscovered years later.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 29 September 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I'm digging this, it's fun.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 29 September 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
― Heez, Sunday, 29 September 2019 19:08 (four years ago) link
Also I appreciate that he wants to lay down a groove or whatever but it feels like I’m being really n over by a train.
― Heez, Sunday, 29 September 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
Does sound like a Fridmann production, even if it's not.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 29 September 2019 20:52 (four years ago) link
I can’t believe I had this much nostalgia for Don Felder’s theme for Heavy Metal, or that movie.
― bendy, Monday, 30 September 2019 04:44 (four years ago) link
Well, yeah.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 30 September 2019 04:57 (four years ago) link
What is this it’s so bad. Still think the best thing he ever did was his npr tiny desk concert
― big city slam (Spottie), Monday, 30 September 2019 05:29 (four years ago) link
Oh man first impression this is bad but I feel the lure of the embarrassment creeping in... I'm soulseeking it.
― cpl593H, Monday, 30 September 2019 10:46 (four years ago) link
This disco song "A Good Look", jeez...
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 30 September 2019 16:06 (four years ago) link
This is bad.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 30 September 2019 16:07 (four years ago) link
watched the film today.was weird how the end credits kick in, and then after them the so called story is finished, and yet there are visual references to how it ends within earlier sections.basically, the timeline of the film is an absolute mess.
oh, and i thought i would be all over the music given the AP review, but nah, i've got zz top albums, i'm good.
― mark e, Monday, 30 September 2019 16:50 (four years ago) link
That album cover looks very stoner rock.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 00:05 (four years ago) link
It looks steinmanish, a gargoyle and a girl in ragged clothes wouldn't have looked out of place.
― cpl593H, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 10:57 (four years ago) link
I have a feeling that in 20 years there will be people claiming this album was good.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link
Well, actually, there's people saying it right now (personally I'm still on the fence)
― cpl593H, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 13:54 (four years ago) link
No need to wait, I've seen multiple people claiming its good right now! Haven't heard it myself yet, waiting for my copy to show up. Can't say I'm thrilled with what I've read about it so far but waiting to judge for myself. (xpost)
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 13:55 (four years ago) link
Haven't heard it yet, but is this album as bad as The Dead Don't Die? That was the biggest try hard failure of the year on film
― octobeard, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 15:30 (four years ago) link
Would make sense because he wrote the titular song that is referenced in the film way too many times.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
I could see him releasing some de-lectrified of this in six months, just stripped-down versions of the same songs.
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
i don't think it's terrible, but it's clearly meant to be experienced live. maybe the songs wil lbe able to breathe if freed from the auerbach-aping production
― flopsy bird (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
He's recorded 2 albums of bluegrass versions of his tunes, releasing them this fall. Here he's playing them live forn the first time, i get extremely happy seeing this! Excited about those albums.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO73im4J2sU&t=2390s
― rizzx, Friday, 19 June 2020 15:29 (three years ago) link
Looking fwd to those. He takes his record collection personally, maybe especially on this 'un, which made my Nashville Scene Top Ten---ballot comments:
i'm a sucker for gleaming pop-country, sez a fellow Marenite. Wal now, have you heard Sturgill's Sound and Fury yet? I just did, and right off, seems like this ZZ Rex electro-pop-boogie, sometimes also reminding me of Neil and the Trans Band (more the show tapes than studio album), might suit you too. It's much less windbaggy than I feared---and the non-pedantic retro detailing, commercial inclusiveness x righteous fencepost grievances x deserty-hot-cold broodiness, also that voice, keep it all country or countryoid. Also 'ppreciate how he keeps twisting the dial into another track at just the right moment, or close enough. It's another hard candy Christmas alright.
― dow, Friday, 19 June 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link
Cuttin' Grass is out now!
― black dice live ft. jerry garcia (rizzx), Friday, 16 October 2020 08:45 (three years ago) link
pretty close:
I could see him releasing some de-lectrified of this in six months, just stripped-down versions of the same songs.― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, October 1, 2019 9:17 AM (one year ago)
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, October 1, 2019 9:17 AM (one year ago)
― alpine static, Friday, 16 October 2020 15:22 (three years ago) link
man i really love Cuttin Grass - his voice sounds so good alongside the arrangements
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 November 2020 07:37 (three years ago) link
I guess Sound and Fury somehow has fans among Grammy voters? (Best Rock Album nominee.)
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link
I like the new album!
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link
his cod zz top really sucks ass imo
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 21:38 (three years ago) link
what does that mean? is he on the call of duty soundtrack?
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 November 2020 22:08 (three years ago) link
Cod reggae is widely defined as reggae that is "inauthentic" and lacks the soul of authentic reggae that comes from Jamaica. It's widely used for reggae made by white people, though black artists have also made cod reggae (Maxi Priest).
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 30 November 2020 02:09 (three years ago) link
have not heard that phrase before, thanks
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 November 2020 02:28 (three years ago) link
huh, that surprises me given how long you've been on ILX wading with Britishers
― DJP, Monday, 30 November 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
not pescatarian enough waters i guess
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 November 2020 17:41 (three years ago) link
Hah! New Cuttin' Grass volume is out today. A bit more adventurous, a lot shorter, sounds real good
― black dice live ft. jerry garcia (rizzx), Friday, 11 December 2020 11:08 (three years ago) link
omg this version of "Call to Arms" !
― Indexed, Friday, 11 December 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
it's a freaker!
― black dice live ft. jerry garcia (rizzx), Friday, 11 December 2020 16:09 (three years ago) link
Nothing about his Willie Nelson style concept record (which also happens to feature ol' Willie himself)? It's great, pretty much same lineup as the Cuttin' Grass sessions afaict.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 19:41 (two years ago) link
it is really good!
so do i have this right? Stu:- made a couple real good records on his own- got signed to a big label- got pissed off at that label- spent a bunch of the label's money flying to Japan a few times to make an anime film to go alongside his "fuck my label" album- said "fuck my label" and got out of his deal (can't remember if he got dropped or the deal was up)- went home and made three good bluegrass records with basically the best pickers in the world
that's pretty badass
― alpine static, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 20:35 (two years ago) link
That's essentially what I understand.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 20:39 (two years ago) link
The bluegrass albums are ridiculously good and were way underrated last year, especially Vol. 2. The new one is his most reverent effort to date, drawing on old trail and cowboy music, bluegrass, and traditional country and western. His singing's never been better, too. Can't fail with a song about a good boy dog but "Juanita" is probably my favorite.
― Indexed, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 21:36 (two years ago) link