the Sturgill Simpson c/d

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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 (five 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 (five 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 (five years ago) link

eight months pass...

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 (four 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 (four years ago) link

three months pass...

Cuttin' Grass is out now!

black dice live ft. jerry garcia (rizzx), Friday, 16 October 2020 08:45 (four 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)

alpine static, Friday, 16 October 2020 15:22 (four years ago) link

one month passes...

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

eight months pass...

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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link

two years pass...

new album good?

I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Saturday, 13 July 2024 00:37 (three months ago) link

Very good, I'd say.

But I also think he's best when he either leans into self-indulgence or when he goes full-on trad country, rather than when he tries to hedge bets between the two. This is much more the former than the latter, so there are some salty genre purists.

jon_oh, Saturday, 13 July 2024 00:44 (three months ago) link

The Ballad of Dood and Juanita is awesome. Sounds like I should be spending time with the bluegrass series too.

TheNuNuNu, Saturday, 13 July 2024 05:26 (three months ago) link

Very good, I'd say.

But I also think he's best when he either leans into self-indulgence or when he goes full-on trad country, rather than when he tries to hedge bets between the two. This is much more the former than the latter, so there are some salty genre purists.

― jon_oh, Friday, July 12, 2024 5:44 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

the first half of this is really great

I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Saturday, 13 July 2024 21:06 (three months ago) link

I should get back with him, that "shitty Eliminator" record he made me lose touch

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 13 July 2024 21:09 (three months ago) link

i listen to the cuttin grass releases a ton.

I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Saturday, 13 July 2024 21:18 (three months ago) link

yeah i dug those

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 July 2024 21:29 (three months ago) link

i like this new one, he’s def back in his oldschool waylon bag more -i like him in that mode

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 13 July 2024 21:31 (three months ago) link

Yes the bluegrass records are incredible

Indexed, Sunday, 14 July 2024 16:26 (three months ago) link

listened to this yesterday and would be curious to hear what influences you all are picking up, as its overarching sound felt more indebted to 70s smooth rock -- the kind that melded country, blues, and easy listening -- than to anything I've heard in the last 4 decades of country music. gone are the fiddles of "Dood" and "Cuttin Grass," the horns of "Sailor's Guide"...here, he's happy to indulge in an electric guitar solo or a prog-esque pairing of electric piano and operatic strings. much of the album he seems to be deliberately singing in a higher register, less interested in harkening back to Waylon or Johnny than to something closer to Jimmy Buffett, maybe?

Indexed, Thursday, 18 July 2024 14:19 (three months ago) link

yeah its def 70s rock/country/easy listening, a bit flying burrito bros. i think you could connect ~ramblin man era waylon to this. buffet connection works too

I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Thursday, 18 July 2024 17:22 (three months ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3Q0jqDGf2I

papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 24 July 2024 04:19 (three months ago) link

two weeks pass...

I’m digging back in the catalog today, finding myself newly re-appreciating the records I was meh about after watching his set at OutsideLands last night: him & his band rocked the fuck out they were so, so good.

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 August 2024 03:16 (two months ago) link

one month passes...

The set lists and vids from this tour…hoo boy. They’ve been playing three hours, tons of covers, stuff from across his catalog. Going next week.

Indexed, Thursday, 26 September 2024 01:48 (one month ago) link

I saw him last week. Played 2 hours and 53 minutes w/ no break, and Stu talked a little but, but not much. I think it was the longest continuous set of live music I've ever seen.

They sounded great, of course. I got a bit bored at points, but I'm very much not a jam guy or a guitar solo geek. It was more impressive than mind-blowing, for me at least. (I enjoyed the two-hour Tyler Childers show I saw in August more.)

alpine static, Thursday, 26 September 2024 02:18 (one month ago) link

his singing is so good on the new album

hott ogo (voodoo chili), Thursday, 26 September 2024 13:34 (one month ago) link

I loved Metamodern Sounds but had been cool on what I'd heard since. Now my Twitter feed has been like 70% Sturgill propaganda for the past few days, so I need to dig into this new album and maybe revisit the older stuff. He's in town on my birthday so that might be a nice way to celebrate.

Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 27 September 2024 16:12 (one month ago) link

lol and I just checked and of course it's sold out. secondary market I guess if he really starts tickling my fancy.

Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 27 September 2024 16:14 (one month ago) link

Show was maybe one of the 10 best I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen hundreds and hundreds. No opener, no encore, just three straight hours of absolute rippin rock n roll with freewheeling jams and barely even a moment break between tunes. I was blown away by the musicianship on that stage — they are an incredibly gifted group, and Sturgill is a far better guitarist than I gave him credit. (Just watched that YouTube above and it’s kind of hilarious how he’s unable to dumb anything down.) The whole show felt like something out of a bygone era, like what it must have felt like to see Zeppelin live, maybe. Most revelatory were the Sound & Fury songs — that album is easily my least favorite of his, but nearly all of the night’s most memorable moments came from it.

Indexed, Friday, 4 October 2024 02:39 (three weeks ago) link

I kinda regret not going, but I've been pretty wiped out, and the idea of even three hours of awesome sounded too much to take. But I've heard nothing but great things about this tour, not least because Laur Joamets is back. Between him and Simpson it must have been like shred city up there.

Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 October 2024 13:28 (three weeks ago) link

I wish I would have been able to go, I've watched that Outside Lands set on YouTube like four times now, he's absolutely killing it right now.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 October 2024 13:54 (three weeks ago) link

wonder if he's bringing the same group with him to Europe?

intrigues

corrs unplugged, Friday, 4 October 2024 17:49 (three weeks ago) link

intrigued*

corrs unplugged, Friday, 4 October 2024 17:49 (three weeks ago) link

That's a good question. Those dates are all listed under the umbrella of the "Why Not?" tour, so I'd think it'd be the same but I'm not sure how popular he is there and if it allows for the costs of the full band.

Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 October 2024 19:34 (three weeks ago) link

this isn’t really anything but his current bass player played w Margo Price on her last tour, we saw him w her in SF — we only noticed him bc he seemed like he was stoned out of his mind (ie more stoned than the band at least), just grinning away at everything but holding it down bass-wise lol

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 October 2024 20:37 (three weeks ago) link

Austin City Limits festival set tonight was killer

werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 October 2024 03:13 (three weeks ago) link


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