What’s more, why always Simpson and never Ray LaMontagne’s Supernova, for instance?
lol
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link
that dude isn't country is he?
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 19:29 (nine years ago) link
ray lamontagne sings like the iron & wine dude so to me that is a point decidedly in sturgill simpson's favor
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 19:31 (nine years ago) link
re: that piece, the lambert/presley/womack/loveless albums are all genuinely great but i think simpson feels a bit apart from the country scene, which is why he's mentioned by many year-end listmakers who don't even think about considering 'platinum' or 'american middle class' or some others.
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
those felt too radioish to me, didn't feel like putting in the work to get comfortable with them
― j., Tuesday, 6 January 2015 19:45 (nine years ago) link
i just kinda hate the whole backlash aspect where it's like i get it i'm sure there are albums in all sorts of niches that ppl with broad tastes by nature just don't find out about or dig but you can't dig deep into EVERYTHING and the sturgill record is good, and the kinda hardcore outlaw/merle thing meets the druggy/psych aspects did feel unique in some ways to me
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
yeah I don't like being browbeaten about how I'm supposed to be more invested in a particular genre
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 20:33 (nine years ago) link
I spent most of my young childhood digging George Strait records & now as an adult I'm burnt out on booze + weed + cosmic anguish so Simpson is catnip for me. I think the Lee Ann Womack record is great too fwiw, Angaleena Presley less so but it has its moments.
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 20:55 (nine years ago) link
the Carl Wilson thing is annoying because it reminds me of how uncomfortable critical acclaim for a relatively uncommercial/unpopular album makes critics as a whole - without the validation of the market, they start to get nervous, it's pretty clearly a "well we all like it, but the market doesn't, what's WRONG with us" dynamic at work; it's pre-emptive anxiety about potential charges of elitism.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 21:06 (nine years ago) link
that goes double for pop/populist genres like country and r&b
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
that… doesn't sound like a thing?
― j., Tuesday, 6 January 2015 21:15 (nine years ago) link
i don't know how successful they want the record to be, i imagine that for this day and age it's sold well. certainly his shows do well.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 00:32 (nine years ago) link
i mean they keep multiple copies in stock at every record store (ha!) i know. clearly people are buying it.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 00:33 (nine years ago) link
also, you may or may not like it, but simpson is bringing something /relatively/ new to the idiom he's chosen to work in. i'm not sure that i can think of many autodidacts with quite as eccentric an intellectual pedigree who show their hand so boldly in a country-music context.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 00:35 (nine years ago) link
I wanted to see him but he had a State Fair gig he canceled to go on tour w Brad Paisley or someone big like that then his solo club show sold out super fast
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 01:30 (nine years ago) link
Sturgill just signed to Atlantic. Interesting.
― Tay-Tay Brooklynpants (Murgatroid), Friday, 16 January 2015 08:45 (nine years ago) link
What <is> Atlantic these days anyway?
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 16 January 2015 08:54 (nine years ago) link
With over 60 years of recorded music history, our passion for artistry in music continues today as a new generation of incredible artists including Bruno Mars, Coldplay, fun., Jason Mraz, Ed Sheeran, Wiz Khalifa, Janelle Monáe, Skrillex, Trey Songz, Hunter Hayes and more continue to further the Atlantic Records legacy.
Nevermind...
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 16 January 2015 08:59 (nine years ago) link
sturgill simpson and my mans trey songz
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 January 2015 15:29 (nine years ago) link
I predict this goes really well lol
― Οὖτις, Friday, 16 January 2015 16:37 (nine years ago) link
http://www.twangnation.com/blog/http://example.com/uploads/2015/01/sturgill-simpson-atlantic-001-300x300.jpg
Nick Tosches on Willie Nelson's Shotgun Willie: "...horns, and basically just what you'd expect of a country album on Atlantic." Yeah, and I like it. So, here's hoping...(Carla: "Otis, you country! Straight from the Georgia woods." Otis: "What!")
― dow, Friday, 16 January 2015 16:39 (nine years ago) link
And maybe a little more for Light In The Attic's stoned Country Funk series.
― dow, Friday, 16 January 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link
OTIS REDDING, RAY CHARLES, WILLIE NELSON, ARETHA FRANKLIN.....SKRILLEX
― marcos, Friday, 16 January 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
I think Sturgill is one of those dudes who, due to his blooming popularity, really do need the larger distribution power of a major. Or needs a major to take it to the proverbial next level, in terms of sales and whatnot. Esp. in the country world, which really has never cottoned well to "independence," at least not beyond the 4th of July.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 January 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
I wonder if they're going to reissue Metamodern first before putting out his next one.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 16 January 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
Posted in the Rolling country thread:
http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/metamodern-sounds-and-facebook-country/Content?oid=4888206
Results of the Nashville Scene Country Music Critics Poll are up. Which seem to have been posted with relatively little fanfare.
Unsurprised that Sturgill Simpson edged Miranda Lambert for Best Album based upon the Pazz & Jop results.
― jon_oh, Thursday, January 22, 2015 11:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The triumph of Sturgill Simpson's Metamodern Sounds in Country Music as the Best Album in the Scene's 15th annual Country Music Critics Poll is significant for several reasons. For one, it was the narrowest victory in the poll's history. If just one voter had added Miranda Lambert's Platinum as the ninth-best album, she would have won. As it was, she won the Best Artist category by a comfortable margin over runner-up Simpson.
― curmudgeon, Friday, January 23, 2015 12:46 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 January 2015 15:31 (nine years ago) link
The latter paragraph is me quoting Poll poobah Geoff Himes
― curmudgeon, Friday, 23 January 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
b/c today's atlantic records is no doubt the same as it was when jerry wexler was running things?
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 23 January 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
I will concede to the "Sturgill Simpson isn't real country" crowd that it doesn't look like he's coming to Georgia, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, or Mississippi on his tour
― example (crüt), Saturday, 31 January 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link
he just toured the south in November.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 31 January 2015 00:04 (nine years ago) link
also country music isn't really a southern phenomenon (although in the popular imagination it's very much tied to the south)
― I dunno. (amateurist), Saturday, 31 January 2015 00:43 (nine years ago) link
williamsburg show is sold out, kinda want to find tix
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 31 January 2015 03:19 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, seriously. Aside from the cities, most of this country really is a giant Texas. It doesn't take long to find places full of people in hats and boots with big belts or camo caps and gun racks. I saw more rednecks at a recent Brad Paisley show 45 minutes outside of Chicago than I saw on my most recent trip below the Mason-Dixon line. And even the cities are packed with country fans.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 31 January 2015 16:09 (nine years ago) link
Its a red region thing
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 31 January 2015 16:12 (nine years ago) link
And for some a rejection of rap and r'n'b thing,
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 31 January 2015 16:13 (nine years ago) link
he'll be on AC Limits stream tonite, 9 PM EST yes Ma'am:
http://www.youtube.com/user/AustinCityLimitsTV?app=desktop
― dow, Thursday, 2 April 2015 00:36 (nine years ago) link
http://klru.vo.llnwd.net/o36/acl_homepage/SturgillSimpson_slide.jpg
― dow, Thursday, 2 April 2015 00:37 (nine years ago) link
@TwangNation @SturgillSimpson @acltv lead player trippin on "Long White Line" yay And now ditto on very electric bluegrassActually enunciating too: "Lawd that her-oi-n (heroine?)dee-stroyed me."
― dow, Thursday, 2 April 2015 01:21 (nine years ago) link
"Sick of that bank, cain't take no more crank."
― dow, Thursday, 2 April 2015 01:22 (nine years ago) link
"Medicine Springs," excellent
― dow, Thursday, 2 April 2015 01:49 (nine years ago) link
wooooow
MN State Fair this year: Merle Haggard, Kris Kristoferson, and Sturgill Simpson
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 21:18 (nine years ago) link
fuckin' good times there.
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
tickets $35 too which seems like a bargain
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link
I "saw" Merle and Kris at Hardly Strictly a few years ago (I could not actually see the stage). they sounded good tho, did a lot of old chestnuts (Mama Tried, Sunday Mornin etc.)
$35 is a total deal!
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link
yeah i mean i guess i figure both merle and kris by themselves would be a $35 ticket and sturgill is probably in the $20 zone by now
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 21:49 (nine years ago) link
he's playing the Fillmore this Saturday for $25 but I am poor and don't have babysitting
but I do wanna go
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 21:52 (nine years ago) link
You probably can't get a funnel cake at the Fillmore show.
― Love, Wilco (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 22:05 (nine years ago) link
nothin on a stick, at all
― j., Tuesday, 14 April 2015 22:11 (nine years ago) link
they give out free apples
(which are good for throwing at Bill Graham's portrait)
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 22:12 (nine years ago) link
New album April 15th
http://www.spin.com/2016/03/sturgill-simpson-brace-for-impact-new-song-beats-1-zane-lowe-stream/
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 4 March 2016 16:21 (eight years ago) link