Sturgill Simpson | Artist

John Sturgill Simpson is an American country and rock music singer-songwriter and actor born 1978 in Jackson, Kentucky. As a young man Simpson broke free of his family background working in the coal mines, and joined the navy where he spent time in Japan. He formed the Country/Rock band Sunday Valley in 2004, for which he played Guitar/Vocals, but left music for a career job as manager of the Union Pacific Railroad freight yard in Salt Lake City. After playing local open mics and hobby gigs, Simpson was drawn back to music and moved to Nashville with his wife, to play with his old band Sunday Valley. The band toured and made an album but disbanded in 2012 and Simpson focused on a solo career. His debut album High Top Mountain, cut in Nashville in 2013, was self-funded and self-released. The album attracted good reviews for its "rich vintage sounds, heartbreaking ballads, and juke-joint ramblers", and comparisons with artists such as Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard. To-date Simpson has released more excellent studio albums: Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, A Sailor's Guide to Earth and Sound & Fury. The 2019 soundtrack to the Anime film "Sound & Fury" is more rock oriented than his previous work, whereas the 2020 release Cuttin' Grass - Vol. 1 returns us to some very fine pickin' and cowboy croonin'. Simpson has also been collaborating and performing with John Prine in recent years.

Artist Website: sturgillsimpson.com

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