Sturgill Simpson’s Tiny Desk Concert For NPR Airs

STURGILL SIMPSON’S NPR MUSIC TINY DESK CONCERT PREMIERES

EXTENSIVE FALL TOUR CONFIRMED

“CONAN” PERFORMANCE CONFIRMED ON SEPTEMBER 10

“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’s NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert recently premiered and can now be viewed/shared here. Of his performance, NPR Music’s Robin Hilton praises, “…Simpson is a force. His acoustic-guitar work in this solo performance is phenomenal, and he possesses a thundering voice that made the NPR offices shudder.” The acoustic session features songs from Simpson’s two LPs—“Time After All” and “Water in the Well” from last year’s High Top Mountain and “Turtles All The Way Down” and “Life of Sin” from this year’s Metamodern Sounds In Country Music (iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp).

Simpson will continue his extensive worldwide tour this fall, including a sold-out headlining show at L.A.’s The Troubadour as well as club dates throughout the Southeast, Southwest, Pacific Northwest and Midwest. The tour also includes shows supporting Zac Brown Band, Jason Isbell and Drive By Truckers. See below for complete details.

In addition to the tour, Simpson and his band—bassist Kevin Black, guitarist Laur Joamets and drummer Miles Miller—will perform on “Conan” on Wednesday, September 10. Earlier this summer, they made their network television debut on the “Late Show with David Letterman” and were featured on the BBC’s “Later Live with Jools Holland,” “Later…with Jools Holland” and American Public Media’s “A Prairie Home Companion.” Simpson is also nominated for “Emerging Artist of the Year” at the 2014 Americana Honors & Awards.

Earlier this summer, a new music video from Simpson, “Life of Sin: Live at RCA Studio A,” premiered at Rolling Stone Country and can now be viewed/shared here. Filmed by LR Baggs as part of their “Handcrafted Video Series,” the session was recorded earlier this summer on a rare day off at the legendary Nashville studio. An exclusive interview with Simpson and producer Dave Cobb filmed at RCA Studio A can be viewed here.

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. 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
September 5 & 6 Greenwood Village, CO Fiddler’s Green Amphitheater*
September 11 Los Angeles, CA The Troubadour (SOLD OUT)
September 13 Naches, WA Chinook Festival
September 17 Nashville, TN City Winery
September 19 & 20 Bristol, TN Bristol Rhythm and Roots Festival
September 24 Oslo, Norway Pokalen Pub
September 25 Bergen, Norway Madam Felle
September 26 Stockholm, Sweden Bryggarsalen
September 28 Copenhagen, Denmark Pumpehuset
September 29 London, UK Dingwalls
September 30 Nottingham, UK The Maze
October 1 Bristol, 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 10 Atlanta, GA Terminal West @ King Plow Arts Center
October 11 Greenville, SC Fall for Greenville
October 16 Phoenix, AZ Ak-Chin Pavilion*
October 17 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Garden Arena*
October 18 San Bernardino, CA San Manual Amphitheater*
October 19 Chula Vista, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre*
October 26 Nashville, TN Ryman Auditorium#
October 31 New Orleans, LA Voodoo Festival
November 1 Mobile, AL Moe’s
November 2 Jacksonville, FL Jack Rabbits
November 4 Charleston, SC The Pour House
November 5 Augusta, GA Sky City
November 6 Durham, NC Durham Performing Arts Center#
November 7 Charlotte, NC The Chop Shop
November 8 Macon, GA Cox Capitol Theatre
November 9 Birmingham, AL WorkPlay Theatre
November 11 Oxford, MS Proud Larry’s
November 12 Hattiesburg, MS Thirsty Hippo
November 14 San Antonio, TX Sam’s Burger Joint
November 15 Dallas, TX Club Dada
November 16 Houston, TX Fitzgerald’s Upstairs
November 18 Phoenix, AZ Valley Bar
November 20-22 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore†
November 23 Sacramento, CA Harlow’s
November 25 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios (SOLD OUT)
November 26 Seattle, WA Tractor Tavern
November 28 Salt Lake City, UT The State Room
December 2 Kansas City, MO Knuckehead’s
December 4 Minneapolis, MN Fine Line Music Café
December 5 Milwaukee, WI Turner Hall
December 6 Chicago, IL Thalia Hall

*supporting Zac Brown Band
#supporting Jason Isbell
†supporting Drive-By Truckers