Sturgill Simpson performed “In Bloom” and “Call To Arms” last night on “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.” Additionally, earlier this week, he stopped by “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” for a performance of “Brace For Impact (Live A Little).”
The performances celebrate Simpson’s highly anticipated new album, “A Sailor’s Guide To Earth”, which was released last Friday on Atlantic Records (purchase here).
Currently #1 on iTunes, the album continues to receive overwhelming critical acclaim—Pitchfork proclaims…
“A Sailor’s Guide to Earth” finds Sturgill Simpson weirder and more adventurous than ever, forging a bold new way forward” and goes on to assert, “”It’s a deeply personal album that, while establishing Simpson as the defining songwriter of his class, displays an artistic growth that defies any sort of easy label.”
Recorded primarily at Nashville’s The Butcher Shoppe, Simpson was joined in the studio by Grammy Award-winning engineer David Ferguson (Johnny Cash, John Prine, “Cowboy” Jack Clement) and assistant engineer Sean Sullivan. Along with members of his touring band, the album features Dave Roe on bass, Dan Dugmore on steel guitar, Dougie Wilkinson on bagpipes, Garo Yellin and Arthur Cook on cello, Jonathan Dinklage and Whitney LaGrange on violin and special guests The Dap-Kings.
Additionally, Rolling Stone awarded the album 4-stars calling it, “a spectacular mic drop of a third LP,” while The New York Times praises, “Sailor’s Guide is rowdier, more emotionally insular and also far more musically surprising, an album of raw country cut with rich and messy Southern soul and sleek orchestral bombast.”
Moreover, NPR Music describes “Brace For Impact (Live A Little),” as “thrilling new music,” while Stereogum calls “In Bloom,” “transcendent…Simpson turned ‘In Bloom’ into first a weepy, twangy ballad and then a celebratory blast of brass, his drawl doing justice to Cobain’s lyrics all the while.”
Simpson will tour throughout 2016 including two newly confirmed shows at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium on October 28th and 29th. Tickets go on-sale tomorrow, Friday, April 22nd at 10:00 AM CT.
Other dates include upcoming sold-out shows at Austin’s Moody Theater, Dallas’ The Bomb Factory, Houston’s White Oak Music Hall, Lexington’s Lexington Opera House, Knoxville’s Tennessee Theater, Indianapolis’ Egyptian Room, Louisville’s Louisville Palace, Chicago’s Riviera Theatre and Minneapolis’ First Avenue. (See below for complete details.)
STURGILL SIMPSON TOUR DATES
May 5—Austin, TX—Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater (SOLD OUT)
May 6—Austin, TX—Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater (SOLD OUT)
May 7—Dallas, TX—The Bomb Factory (SOLD OUT)
May 10—Houston, TX—White Oak Music Hall (SOLD OUT)
May 11—Oklahoma City, OK—Criterion Theater (Tickets)
May 16—Lexington, KY—Lexington Opera House (SOLD OUT)
May 17—Lexington, KY— Lexington Opera House (SOLD OUT)
May 18—Chattanooga, TN—Tivoli Theater (Tickets)
May 20—Knoxville, TN—Tennessee Theater (SOLD OUT)
May 21—Indianapolis, IN—Egyptian Room – Old National Centre (SOLD OUT)
May 22—Louisville, KY—Louisville Palace (SOLD OUT)
June 2—Royal Oak, MI—Royal Oak Theatre (Tickets)
June 3—Chicago, IL—Riviera Theatre (SOLD OUT)
June 4—Milwaukee, WI—Riverside Theater (Tickets)
June 5—Minneapolis, MN—First Avenue (SOLD OUT)
October 28—Nashville, TN—Ryman Auditorium (ON-SALE FRIDAY, APRIL 22)
October 29—Nashville, TN—Ryman Auditorium (ON-SALE FRIDAY, APRIL 22)
For more information on Sturgill Simpson, visit his website and follow him on Facebook and Twitter.
