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
ooh!
― Οὖτις, Friday, 4 March 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
Cool. Saw him in Seattle last November. His guitar player is very good.
― van smack, Saturday, 5 March 2016 03:36 (eight years ago) link
Looking forward to it a lot.
― Half-baked profundities. Self-referential smirkiness (Bob Six), Sunday, 6 March 2016 01:21 (eight years ago) link
apparently it will feature an "In Bloom" cover. intrigued!
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 6 March 2016 01:58 (eight years ago) link
WTF I'm not sure I'm into this. Sounds like some post-Eagles Don Henley shit with more distortion.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 6 March 2016 03:35 (eight years ago) link
more like Turgid Simpson
― karla jay vespers, Sunday, 6 March 2016 04:05 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 6 March 2016 04:26 (eight years ago) link
Weird single, kind of an early or mid-90s adult rock vibe and the production doesn't sound great.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 7 March 2016 04:12 (eight years ago) link
I relistened to the first album a few months ago and decided it kinda sucks
― micro brewbio (crüt), Monday, 7 March 2016 04:14 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I pretty much stand by what I said upthread -- it's one good song but it's a whole album.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 7 March 2016 04:21 (eight years ago) link
You guys are nuts. The new single is good.
― van smack, Monday, 7 March 2016 04:59 (eight years ago) link
so, for the first time, somebody owes dan auerbach money?
― leet gentlemen's club (contenderizer), Monday, 7 March 2016 05:25 (eight years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/sturgill-simpson-on-staying-country-covering-nirvana-on-new-album-20160321?page=2
― Thomas H. Handy (dandydonweiner), Tuesday, 22 March 2016 01:15 (eight years ago) link
I see Dave Cobb is not part of this new one.
― van smack, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 01:37 (eight years ago) link
Good
― Wimmels, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 01:57 (eight years ago) link
This cover of "In Bloom" is hilariously inept:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpDYfkymaSE
― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Thursday, 24 March 2016 17:02 (eight years ago) link
he seems even more full-on into bad 70s country trope mode. WTF, cotton in his gums like Brando in the Godfather?
terrible
― Thomas H. Handy (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 24 March 2016 17:31 (eight years ago) link
whut the heyul
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:27 (eight years ago) link
the addition of "to love someone" at the end of that line is hilarious unintentional irony
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Thursday, 24 March 2016 20:29 (eight years ago) link
You guys go to hell
― van smack, Thursday, 24 March 2016 22:07 (eight years ago) link
kinda wish he'd gone all the way with it
He likes to shoot his gunBut he don't know what it meansTo love someoneThe way I love you...
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Thursday, 24 March 2016 23:03 (eight years ago) link
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
― if young slothrop don't trust ya i'm gon' rhyme ya (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 14:28 (eight years ago) link
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.’”
“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.’”
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 31 March 2016 21:58 (eight years ago) link
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.
― dc, Thursday, 31 March 2016 22:15 (eight years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2016/04/07/473237504/first-listen-sturgill-simpson-a-sailors-guide-to-earth
― Mordy, Thursday, 7 April 2016 13:55 (eight years ago) link
― van smack, Tuesday, March 22, 2016 1:
I think in the NYT profile he talks about why he produced this one himself
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 7 April 2016 14:09 (eight years ago) link
this feels kinda half baked with a lot of strings on top
― Heez, Friday, 8 April 2016 03:52 (eight years ago) link
It has its moments, but it ain't great.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 8 April 2016 04:29 (eight years ago) link
Album works pretty well as an entry point to his music (which this is for me, never got around to Metamodern, will probably go back now though).
― Jeff W, Sunday, 17 April 2016 11:38 (eight years ago) link
Liking this a lot.
Haven't had time to absorb much of the lyrics, which might be a bit heavy-handed from what I read. But it sounds fine overall.
― Half-baked profundities. Self-referential smirkiness (Bob Six), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 07:20 (eight years ago) link
Welcome To Earth (Polywog) is my favourite song so far this year
― Jerry Lee Lewis: The Total Film-Maker (stevie), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 13:11 (eight years ago) link
Rest of the album is very strong too, I think
― Jerry Lee Lewis: The Total Film-Maker (stevie), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 13:12 (eight years ago) link
Finally listened to it this morning after not caring for either of the songs he released beforehand. I don't even know if I like it or not. I don't hate it, but it's just so fucking dull.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 13:40 (eight years ago) link
Saw his performance on The Daily Show and liked it.
Streaming the album on Spotify and it seems like it'll be the one country album I like this year.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 25 May 2016 02:34 (eight years ago) link
From FB:
http://www.musicrow.com/2016/08/acm-creates-award-to-celebrate-merle-haggards-legacy/Many years back, much like Willie and Waylon had years before, Merle Haggard said,"Fuck this town. I'm moving." and he left Nashville.According to my sources, it was right after a record executive told him that "Kern River" was a bad song. In the last chapter of his career and his life, Nashville wouldn't call, play, or touch him. He felt forgotten and tossed aside. I always got a sense that he wanted one last hit..one last proper victory lap of his own, and we all know deserved it. Yet it never came. And now he's gone. Im writing this because I want to go on record and say I find it utterly disgusting the way everybody on Music Row is coming up with any reason they can to hitch their wagon to his name while knowing full and damn well what he thought about them. If the ACM wants to actually celebrate the legacy and music of Merle Haggard, they should drop all the formulaic cannon fodder bullshit they've been pumping down rural America's throat for the last 30 years along with all the high school pageantry, meat parade award show bullshit and start dedicating their programs to more actual Country Music.While Im venting about the unjust treatment of a bonafide American music legend, I should also add, if for no other reasons than sheer principal and to get the taste I've been choking back for months now out of my mouth, that Merle was supposed to be on the cover of Garden & Gun magazine's big Country Music issue (along with myself) a few months back. They reached out to both of us in October of last year while I was on a west coast tour. Merle was home off the road so I took a day off and traveled up to Redding.He was so excited about it and it goes without saying that I was completely beside myself along with my Grandfather who has always been a HUGE Merle fan. We spent the whole day of the interview visiting in his living room with our families and had a wonderful conversation with the journalist. Then we spent about two hours outside being photographed by a brilliant and highly respected photographer named David McClister until Merle had enough...he was still recovering from a recent bout of double pneumonia at the time and it was a bit cold that day on the ranch. But then at the last minute, the magazine's editor put Chris Stapleton on the cover without telling anyone until they had already gone to print. Don't get me wrong, Chris had a great year and deserves a million magazine covers...but thats not the point. Its about keeping your word and ethics.Chris also knows this as he called me personally to express his disgust at the situation. Dude's a class act.The editor later claimed in a completely bullshit email apology to both Merle's publicist and ours (Chris and I share the same publicist) that they didn't get any good shots that day.David McClister..2 hour shoot..no good photos..OK buddy,..whatever you say.Anyway, Merle passed away right after it came out.Some days, this town and this industry have a way of making we wish I could just go sit on Mars and build glass clocks.Sturgill
Many years back, much like Willie and Waylon had years before, Merle Haggard said,"Fuck this town. I'm moving." and he left Nashville.According to my sources, it was right after a record executive told him that "Kern River" was a bad song. In the last chapter of his career and his life, Nashville wouldn't call, play, or touch him. He felt forgotten and tossed aside. I always got a sense that he wanted one last hit..one last proper victory lap of his own, and we all know deserved it. Yet it never came. And now he's gone.
Im writing this because I want to go on record and say I find it utterly disgusting the way everybody on Music Row is coming up with any reason they can to hitch their wagon to his name while knowing full and damn well what he thought about them. If the ACM wants to actually celebrate the legacy and music of Merle Haggard, they should drop all the formulaic cannon fodder bullshit they've been pumping down rural America's throat for the last 30 years along with all the high school pageantry, meat parade award show bullshit and start dedicating their programs to more actual Country Music.
While Im venting about the unjust treatment of a bonafide American music legend, I should also add, if for no other reasons than sheer principal and to get the taste I've been choking back for months now out of my mouth, that Merle was supposed to be on the cover of Garden & Gun magazine's big Country Music issue (along with myself) a few months back. They reached out to both of us in October of last year while I was on a west coast tour. Merle was home off the road so I took a day off and traveled up to Redding.He was so excited about it and it goes without saying that I was completely beside myself along with my Grandfather who has always been a HUGE Merle fan. We spent the whole day of the interview visiting in his living room with our families and had a wonderful conversation with the journalist. Then we spent about two hours outside being photographed by a brilliant and highly respected photographer named David McClister until Merle had enough...he was still recovering from a recent bout of double pneumonia at the time and it was a bit cold that day on the ranch. But then at the last minute, the magazine's editor put Chris Stapleton on the cover without telling anyone until they had already gone to print. Don't get me wrong, Chris had a great year and deserves a million magazine covers...but thats not the point. Its about keeping your word and ethics.Chris also knows this as he called me personally to express his disgust at the situation. Dude's a class act.The editor later claimed in a completely bullshit email apology to both Merle's publicist and ours (Chris and I share the same publicist) that they didn't get any good shots that day.David McClister..2 hour shoot..no good photos..OK buddy,..whatever you say.Anyway, Merle passed away right after it came out.
Some days, this town and this industry have a way of making we wish I could just go sit on Mars and build glass clocks.
Sturgill
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 29 August 2016 15:59 (seven years ago) link
Right on
― Wimmels, Monday, 29 August 2016 19:02 (seven years ago) link
Saw him live to celebrate a friend's birthday. It's not a show I would ever have chosen to see myself, and yet the sheer galactic maximalism of it all was completely mesmerising. And the crowd! What a lovely crowd. Everyone dancing!
― tangenttangent, Monday, 29 August 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
If Sturgill was a rock artist, I'd be telling him to chill the fuck out and just roll with the progression of things, but since he's not and country actually HAS BEEN a bunch of bullshit for 30 years that has zip to do with the traditional songwriting style and musicianship of country music, I am pumping my fist.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 02:03 (seven years ago) link
Sturgill is mythologizing. His past never existed.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 02:05 (seven years ago) link
never MIND the fact that Miranda Lambert has made better records
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 02:06 (seven years ago) link
Inasmuch as country industry has always been dominated by "inauthentic" hucksters and jingoism u are correct
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 02:07 (seven years ago) link
Country industry has also always been about a mythological past too tho
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 30 August 2016 02:08 (seven years ago) link
I love u Alfred, but I can't understand the manner in which you staunchly defend the most garbagey ends of Nashville.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 02:09 (seven years ago) link