Sturgill Simpson Brings “Life Of Sin” To Letterman

STURGILL SIMPSON PERFORMS ON “LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN”

METAMODERN SOUNDS IN COUNTRY MUSIC OUT NOW TO WIDESPREAD ACCLAIM

“THE PROMISE” VIDEO PREMIERES AT NPR MUSIC

ON TOUR NOW

“Best New Country Badass.”—Rolling Stone

“It is the best country record of the year, hands down. That is, if you can even call it country. Frankly, I don’t know what it is, except for brilliant…”—Esquire

“We’ll be lucky to hear a stronger album—country or otherwise—this year.”—The Washington Post

“…will endure as one of this young century’s best traditionalist country records.”—Stereogum

Sturgill Simpson made his late night television debut on the “Late Show with David Letterman” last night performing “Life of Sin.” The performance celebrates Simpson’s highly acclaimed sophomore album, Metamodern Sounds In Country Music, which is out now on High Top Mountain Records (iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp).

Simpson will continue his expansive tour this summer and fall, including two sold-out shows tonight at Joe’s Pub. See below for complete details. Widely renowned for his live shows, Rolling Stone selected his SXSW performance as one of their “48 Best Things We Saw at SXSW 2014,” praising, “After a 14-hour drive to town, his band killed, seemingly without breaking a sweat.” Additionally, Simpson recently performed on the BBC’s “Later Live with Jools Holland,” “Later…with Jools Holland” and American Public Media’s “A Prairie Home Companion” in addition to being featured on NPR’s “Weekend Edition Sunday.” Simpson is also nominated for “Emerging Artist of the Year” at the 2014 Americana Honors & Awards.

Of Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, Rolling Stone heralds, “Sounds Like: Merle Haggard with a stack of books on cosmology and metaphysics,” while Garden & Gun praises, “Metamodern is what country music should sound like.” Moreover, The Washington Post calls him, “Country music’s most exciting new outsider” and The Wall Street Journal describes, “the album salts old-school country, bluegrass and gospel sounds with hints of psychedelia and even electronica—although fans of his authentic-country cred aren’t likely to be disappointed.” Additionally, NPR Music recently premiered his music videos for “The Promise” and “Turtles All The Way Down.”

Produced once again by friend and trusted collaborator Dave Cobb (Jason Isbell, Lindi Ortega, Jamey Johnson), Metamodern Sounds In Country Music was recorded live-to-tape at Nashville’s LCS studio over four days in late 2013. For the recording, Simpson was joined by his touring band—bassist Kevin Black, guitarist Laur Joamets and drummer Miles Miller. Of the album, Simpson comments, “Myriad worldly offerings—religion, drugs, and more—all claim to be the omnipotent universal truth, but in my experience, love is the only certainty. That’s what this record is about.”

Simpson’s portrait on the album cover was designed by friend and painter Jason Seiler, who is perhaps best known for illustrating Pope Francis for TIME Magazine’s 2013 “Person of the Year” issue in addition to contributing art to publications such as The New York Times, Rolling Stone and The Wall Street Journal.

STURGILL SIMPSON TOUR DATES
July 15 New York, NY Joe’s Pub (two shows – SOLD OUT)
July 17 Bowling Green, KY The Warehouse at Mt. Victor
July 18 Cincinnati, OH Buckle Up Fest
July 19 Los Angeles, CA KCRW’s Country in the City†
July 24 London, UK Bush Hall
July 25 Sheffield, UK The Greystones
July 26 Perth, UK Southern Fried Festival‡
July 27 Amsterdam, Netherlands Paradiso
August 7 St. Louis, MO Off Broadway
August 8 Appleton, WI Mile of Music Festival
August 14 Schwenksville, PA Philadelphia Folk Festival
August 16 & 17 Gilford, NH Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion*
August 19 Alexandria, VA The Birchmere
August 21 & 22 Toronto, ON Molson Canadian Amphitheatre*
August 23 Darien Center, NY Darien Lake Performing Arts Center*
August 24 Saratoga Springs, NY Saratoga Performing Arts Center*
August 27 Northampton, MA Iron Horse Music Hall
August 28 Boston, MA Brighton Music Hall
August 29 Bethel, NY Bethel Woods Center for the Arts*
August 30 Wantagh, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Theater*
September 6 Maryville, TN Smoky Mountain Harley-Davidson
September 11 Los Angeles, CA The Troubadour
September 13 Naches, WA Chinook Festival
September 19 & 20 Bristol, TN Bristol Rhythm and Roots Festival
September 30 Nottingham, UK The Maze
October 1 Bishopston, UK The Tunnels, Temple Meads
October 2 Liverpool, UK Leaf
October 3 Cork, Ireland Triskel Arts Centre
October 4 Dublin, Ireland Whelans
October 5 Glasgow, UK Oran Mor
October 6 Gateshead, UK The Sage Gateshead
October 26 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium#
November 6 Durham, NC Durham Performing Arts Center#

*supporting Zac Brown Band
†supporting Gregg Allman
‡supporting Steve Earle
#supporting Jason Isbell