the Sturgill Simpson c/d

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

Sturgill just signed to Atlantic. Interesting.

What <is> Atlantic these days anyway?

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...

sturgill simpson and my mans trey songz

I predict this goes really well lol

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!")

And maybe a little more for Light In The Attic's stoned Country Funk series.

OTIS REDDING, RAY CHARLES, WILLIE NELSON, ARETHA FRANKLIN.....SKRILLEX

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.

I wonder if they're going to reissue Metamodern first before putting out his next one.

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

The latter paragraph is me quoting Poll poobah Geoff Himes

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!")

b/c today's atlantic records is no doubt the same as it was when jerry wexler was running things?

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

he just toured the south in November.

also country music isn't really a southern phenomenon (although in the popular imagination it's very much tied to the south)

williamsburg show is sold out, kinda want to find tix

also country music isn't really a southern phenomenon (although in the popular imagination it's very much tied to the south)

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.

Its a red region thing

And for some a rejection of rap and r'n'b thing,

he'll be on AC Limits stream tonite, 9 PM EST yes Ma'am:

http://www.youtube.com/user/AustinCityLimitsTV?app=desktop

http://klru.vo.llnwd.net/o36/acl_homepage/SturgillSimpson_slide.jpg

@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."

"Sick of that bank, cain't take no more crank."

"Medicine Springs," excellent

wooooow

MN State Fair this year: Merle Haggard, Kris Kristoferson, and Sturgill Simpson

fuckin' good times there.

tickets $35 too which seems like a bargain

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!

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

he's playing the Fillmore this Saturday for $25 but I am poor and don't have babysitting

but I do wanna go

You probably can't get a funnel cake at the Fillmore show.

nothin on a stick, at all

they give out free apples

(which are good for throwing at Bill Graham's portrait)

New album April 15th

http://www.spin.com/2016/03/sturgill-simpson-brace-for-impact-new-song-beats-1-zane-lowe-stream/

ooh!

Cool. Saw him in Seattle last November. His guitar player is very good.

Looking forward to it a lot.

apparently it will feature an "In Bloom" cover. intrigued!

WTF I'm not sure I'm into this. Sounds like some post-Eagles Don Henley shit with more distortion.

more like Turgid Simpson

Sounds like some post-Eagles Don Henley shit with more distortion.

I'll be the judge of that!

(listens)

I dunno, seems like he's really committing to being that "Country Guy Only Rock Fans Listen To"--serious Mitchell Froom/Tchad Blake vibes from the production. Most Henley thing about it is how it just keeps going and going after making its point.

Weird single, kind of an early or mid-90s adult rock vibe and the production doesn't sound great.

I relistened to the first album a few months ago and decided it kinda sucks

Yeah I pretty much stand by what I said upthread -- it's one good song but it's a whole album.

You guys are nuts. The new single is good.

so, for the first time, somebody owes dan auerbach money?

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/sturgill-simpson-on-staying-country-covering-nirvana-on-new-album-20160321?page=2

I see Dave Cobb is not part of this new one.