A Sailor’s Guide is a lot of things. For starters, it’s the latest masterstroke in an ongoing reclamation of country music from the mainstream by Nashville outsiders — a pretty romantic notion, to be sure, but one that Sturgill Simpson himself refuted in his WTF interview […]
From an interview with Haggard and Sturgill: Haggard: …I need some inspiration [to write]. I need to write something that says something. There’s a lot going on in the world. Simpson: There’s so much going on that it numbs my […]
Provocative and polarizing, lush with strings and blaring with horns, A Sailor’s Guide to Earth (out April 15 on Atlantic) finds Sturgill Simpson entrusting the musical adventurism of his third album to a heavy-handed producer. The producer is named Sturgill […]
