the Sturgill Simpson c/d

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.

Good

This cover of "In Bloom" is hilariously inept:

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

he seems even more full-on into bad 70s country trope mode. WTF, cotton in his gums like Brando in the Godfather?

terrible

whut the heyul

the addition of "to love someone" at the end of that line is hilarious unintentional irony

You guys go to hell

kinda wish he'd gone all the way with it

He likes to shoot his gun
But he don't know what it means
To love someone
The way I love you...

really not sure why anyone is bemused by this cover, it...sounds like a sturgill simpson song, just like he made "the promise" sound like one of his songs

tbf it's not half as good as "the promise" but it's totally fine

NYT Profile

...it’s Elvis on Mr. Simpson’s mind, and in his mouth.

“T.C.B., baby!” he yelled, a reference to Presley’s band. Mr. Simpson is partial to Presley’s later years, the Stax era, “when they were laying it down hard and heavy. Elvis was a way bigger influence than Waylon Jennings, but you don’t wanna tell people, ‘I never really listened to Waylon.’”

in fact he does seem to wanna tell ppl he never really listened to waylon.

from the quoted lyrics to that father-son song, i'd guess jason isbell's "outfit" made an impression on him when they toured together.

http://www.npr.org/2016/04/07/473237504/first-listen-sturgill-simpson-a-sailors-guide-to-earth

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

― van smack, Tuesday, March 22, 2016 1:

I think in the NYT profile he talks about why he produced this one himself

this feels kinda half baked with a lot of strings on top

It has its moments, but it ain't great.