Follow-Up to Breakthrough, Grammy-Nominated 2014 Release Metamodern Sounds In Country Music Sturgill Simpson s A Sailor s Guide to Earth is the rare album that traverses the entire world, both musically and lyrically. It s dizzyingly diverse, jumping from one style to the next, with ports of call in Motor City and Music Row, Harlem and Stax, Berlin…
20 Previously Released Sturgill Simpson Songs Reimagined in Bluegrass Form! Since breaking through in 2014 with his Grammy-nominated Metamodern Sounds in Country Music album, Sturgill Simpson has established himself as one of the most daring and most acclaimed artists of our time. His music stretches across genres and styles, from the psychedelic soul of 2016 s A Sailor s Guide…
Second Installment features Another Helping of Sturgill Simpson Songs Reimagined in Bluegrass Form including Two Previously Unreleased Tracks! Just a few weeks after the surprise release of the Cuttin Grass (Vol. 1): Butcher Shoppe Sessions album – which Uproxx called the most sublime and delightful music he s yet made on record – Sturgill Simpson returns with the next installment of…
Nashville sounds like Nashville again on High Top Mountain, the debut release from singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson. From furious honky-tonk and pre-outlaw country-rocking to spellbinding bluegrass pickin and emotional balladry, the album serves as a one-stop guide to everything that made real country music such a force to be reckoned with. Pure and uncompromising, devoid of…
This 10 Year Anniversary Edition of Sturgill Simpson s breakout debut album High Top Mountain includes an Old King Coal blacked out album cover with a glossy embossed jacket, and is pressed on colored vinyl. Simpson s authenticity stands out like an island of hope in a sea of tacky on the 2013 release. Pure and uncompromising,…
Sturgill Simpson isn t one to rest on his laurels, which is why, less than a year after the release of his critically acclaimed debut, High Top Mountain, the singer-songwriter is coming out with his captivating and wholly unique sophomore album, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, through his own label, High Top Mountain Records. The album title – an…
Follow-Up to 2016 s Grammy-Winning A Sailor s Guide to Earth Accompanies New Anime Film of the Same Name Based on a Story by Sturgill Simpson and Made with Writer Director Jumpei Mizusaki and Character Designer Takashi Okazaki Country singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson follows-up his Grammy award-winning 2016 album, A Sailor s Guide to Earth and 2019 theme song for…
Third Album in 12 Months and First of New Original Music Since 2019 s Sound & Fury Inspired by Classic Concept Albums like Willie Nelson s Red-Headed Stranger! Inspired by such classic concept albums as Willie Nelson s Red-Headed Stranger, Sturgill Simpson s The Ballad of Dood & Juanita is the Grammy-winning singer songwriter s third album in twelve…
***So named because the CD version originally clocked in time-wise at 29 minutes and 29 seconds, Ô29:29 Split VisionÕ was recorded in December 1985, just after the band had split up, and they wanted to bring some closure to that period by recording the new songs they were working on at the time, alongside some…
***The EP-LP was originally released in early 1986, after the band had split in November 1985, and collected for convenience the first four Subhumans EPs onto one disc. This includes the fiery six-track debut, ÔDemolition WarÕ, that was first unleashed at the end of 1981, the powerful and provocative ÔReason For ExistenceÕ and the perennial…
With their eclectic influences & scintillating musicianship, Subhumans were never going to be content to trot out anarcho punk by numbers, but no-one was really prepared for the progressive brilliance of their sophomore album.. The ambitious title track really captures the imagination, a 16+ minute song telling the sorry tale of the human life cycle…
***With their eclectic influences and scintillating musicianship, Subhumans were never going to be content to trot out anarcho punk by numbers, but no-one was really prepared for the progressive brilliance of their sophomore album, ÔFrom The Cradle To The GraveÕ. Whilst the A-side contains nine short sharp bursts of energised punk, gleefully embracing all points…
***As the title suggests, this 1986 album compiled the eight-track ÔTime FliesÉ But Aeroplanes CrashÕ 12Ó, originally recorded and released in 1983, and the four-track EP, ÔRatsÕ, that had been recorded during the summer of 1984 and released in early Õ85. ÔRatsÕ might just be the bandÕs most powerful and compelling release, the title track…
Arguably the highlight of their Eighties output, the third Subhumans album was recorded during Spring 1985, and released early the following year, a few months after the band had split. Worlds Apart saw the band find a veritable sweet spot in their song-writing, spawning many of their best-loved tracks but every single track on the…
As a staple of the punk scene, ALL of the Subhumans records are in high demand, and this long overdue repress of their 2007 album couldnÕt have come at a better time. Subhumans are one of the most influential bands from the UK Anarcho-Punk scene of the 80 s, filed right alongside Crass and Conflict,…
As a staple of the punk scene, ALL of the Subhumans records are in high demand, and this long overdue repress of their 2007 album couldnÕt have come at a better time. Subhumans are one of the most influential bands from the UK Anarcho-Punk scene of the 80 s, filed right alongside Crass and Conflict,…