Sturgill Simpson

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John Sturgill Simpson (born June 8, 1978) is an American country music singer-songwriter and actor.

He has sold four albums as a solo artist as of September 2019.

He released two albums in a row, High Top Mountain in 2013 and Metamodern Sounds in Country Music in 2014.

His second album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Americana Album, which was ranked 18th on Rolling Stone's "50 Greatest Albums of 2014" and ranked among "NPR's 50 Favorite Albums of 2014." Simpson's third studio album, A Sailor's Guide to Earth, was released on Atlantic Records and was his first major-label debut, winning him Best Country Album at the 59th Grammy Awards, as well as being nominated for Album of the Year.

Sound & Fury, Simpson's fourth album, was released on September 27, 2019.

Early life

John Sturgill Simpson was born in Jackson, Breathitt County, Kentucky. Sturgill's given name derives from his paternal grandmother's maiden name, which comes from the town she was born in, Wurtland, Kentucky. His father, a Kentucky State Trooper who had previously worked undercover, was a Kentucky State Trooper who served undercover. Simpson's family moved to Versailles, outside of Lexington, where Simpson attended Woodford County High School due to his father's work. His mother's relatives were coal miners, and he is the first female on her side of the family not to work in a strip mine or deep mine.

Simpson says he was "not a good student" during his education. When he was in the seventh grade, his parents divorced. He only "fully graduated" from Woodford High, enlisting in the US Navy in his senior year. Simpson spent some time in Japan after three years in the Navy, where he served in the Navy's Combat Information Center of a frigate. He spent time in Everett and Seattle, Washington, where he waited tables at IHOP before heading back to Lexington, Kentucky.

Personal life

Simpson's album "Oh Sarah," is dedicated to his wife, and the album as a whole is dedicated to his first son. Three boys live with the couple.

Simpson is a Kentucky Colonel who was honoured at the Kentucky State Capitol on March 20, 2018. Rep. James Kay called Simpson "independence" and "very proud to be from our great Commonwealth" and "very proud to be from this country, in the name of Metamodern Sounds in Country Music "one of the best albums of all time... pure Kentucky and... pure Sturgill Simpson."

Simpson has spoken out about his battles with heroin use and mental health issues. He said in a 2020 interview that he had been doing his own forms of self-care, including cutting sugar from his diet, racing rally cars, participating in shooting ranges, and avoiding coverage of the 2020 presidential election. In the same interview, he said that his political views were not leaning "one way or the other" and dubbed himself an anarchist. Simpson rodeback riding before filming his role in Killers of the Flower Moon.

Simpson denied rumors that he was an atheist in 2015, saying he had a tattoo of Jesus' name.

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Career

Simpson formed the Country/Rock band on Sunday Valley, which performed at the Pickathon festival in Portland, Oregon. He later moved to Nashville, but claims he "didn't have the foggiest idea of how to make my music [it] was a complete bust."

Simpson, despite his musical aspirations, concentrated on building a career at a Salt Lake City railroad freight-shipping yard for Union Pacific Railroad, which he later managed. He cites his wife and friends with helping him move beyond what he described as a hobbyist interest in songwriting and playing to persuading him to consider music as a future work. Simpson returned to Sunday Valley, playing local open mics and gigs, and recording an album with the band. When the company disbanded in 2012, he and his wife migrated to Nashville.

Simpson released his debut album High Top Mountain in 2013, which he self-financed, self-released, and had a cut in Nashville, and went solo. Dave Cobb produced the album. Harpe "Pig" Robbins on piano and Robby Turner, a former Waylon Jennings guitarist, were among the session participants. The record is named after a cemetery near Jackson, where many of Simpson's relatives are buried. AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine rated High Top Mountain 312 stars out of 5, comparing its sound to Waylon Jennings. The album's look has also been compared to Merle Haggard's. Erik Ernst of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel compared it to Jennings, saying that it had "rich vintage sounds, heartbreaking ballads, and juke-joint ramblers."

Simpson's second album, again produced by Dave Cobb, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, received raves in 2014. "Life is a Dream" was the lead song on the album. The album has been described as "flesh[ing] out a deep and unique link between traditionalism and new ways of thinking," as well as a departure from Simpson's more traditional hard country debut. "Recording and mixing was carried out in five and a half days for about $4,000. "I was really proud about it." By Nate Chinen, a New York Times writer, the album was named one of the year's top ten best of the year. In 2014, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music received a Grammy Award for Best Americana Album.

Simpson appeared on "Life of Sin" on the Late Show with David Letterman on July 14, 2014. On a September episode of "Life the Dream" and "The Promise" on a December episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers, he will continue to play "Live the Dream" on a September episode of Conan's "Live the Dream" and "The Promise" on a September episode of "Touchles All the Way Down." In 2015, he returned to The Late Show and Conan, respectively playing "Long White Line" in February and "Just Let Go" in April. He appeared in the Grand Ole Opry and opened for Willie Nelson at Austin City Limits, and he also opened for Willie Nelson. He appeared in late 2015 as Merle Haggard's opening act.

He performed "The Promise" by 1980s bands In Rome, the actor from "The Leftovers" on HBO in November 2015. In November 2019, "Turtles All The Way Down" was the first track from this album and appeared in the soundtrack for HBO's series Watchmen's Season 1 Episode 5. Simpson also performed "Sugar Daddy," the Martin Scorsese/Mick Jagger-produced television program, on Vinyl. Simpson's songs are being published by Downtown Music Publishing as of July 2015, a deal that follows his 2015 contract with Atlantic Records.

Simpson's Guide To Earth, his third album, "Brace For Impact (Live a Little), the album's first track from his third album "A Sailor's Guide to Earth (Live a Little). Simpson's "heartfelt" guide to life from Simpson to his infant son, and Simpson produced it himself, replacing Dave Cobb, the album's producer. It includes work by The Dap-Kings from Brooklyn's Daptone Records, as well as a look at Nirvana's "In Bloom" and "In Bloom." Sailor's Guide, Simpson's first major label debut, was nominated for Album of the Year and received Best Country Album at the 59th Grammy Awards. Simpson appeared on "Keep It Between the Lines" and "Call to Arms" on Saturday Night Live in January 2017. Simpson's not being nominated for or invited to this year's awards appeared livestreamed himself busking and addressing fans outside the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville during the Country Music Association Awards ceremony on November 8, 2017.

Simpson had intended to take a break from touring for the remainder of 2017 in order to concentrate on his family, but then reconsidered after his Grammy nominations. Margo Price and I began touring in May 2017 by appearing at the Wharf Amphitheater in Orange Beach, Alabama. He appeared on three shows during the Guns N' Roses "Not in this Lifetime" tour in the summer of 2017. Despite his family commitments and feelings of exhaustion, Simpson later revealed that he was "talked" back to touring. He suffered from a relapse of heroin use and depression on the road in 2017, but after the tour's conclusion, he reconnected with his wife "in a very deep and profound way" and then dedicated more time to his children.

After being introduced to Childers by drummer Miles Miller, Simpson produced Tyler Childers' 2017 album Purgatory. Simpson will appear on Childers' new album, 2019's Country Squire.

Simpson revealed in a podcast interview on March 5, 2018, he hinted that it would be a double album, but this was not the case. On July 21, 2019, a sound & Fury title was announced at the San Diego Comic-Con, with Simpson referring to it as a "sleazy, steamy rock'n'roll record." On Netflix, a companion anime film with the same name was also released. On August 20, 2019, the album was released for pre-order, with the track "Sing Along" being the same day. On September 27, the album received overwhelmingly positive feedback. It was released under the Elektra Records brand, which Simpson was transferred to in 2018 after his time at Atlantic Records. It was influenced by psychedelia, funk, and experimental rock, enhancing Simpson's established country style. Both "Sing Along" and "A Good Look" were released as music videos that featured clips from the anime. "Synth-rock at its craziest," Pitchfork praised the record as "synth-rock at its scuzziest."

Simpson referred to Sound & Fury as a record born from "burnout," especially in reaction to his 2017 tours, as well as the realization that the music industry had disillusioned the genre. Following the release of Sound & Fury, he cut off contact with Elektra and refused to give them any information. Elektra "didn't know what the fuck to do" with him, according to Simpson, who made Sound & Fury's debut on the internet and left Elektra with a "huge debt" that was impossible to sell, leaving Elektra with a "dangerous debt" that was impossible to sell, and left Elektra with a "significant unrecouped debt" balloons, which was also difficult to market. Simpson sluggishly attacked record labels, branding them overly controlling yet noncontributive, and that he was tricked into signing a record deal by people who were no longer in his life. He also stated that his Grammy nominations for A Sailor's Guide To Earth was a promise for the record labels to reap a return on their investment, and that his involvement had nothing to do with him or his music, quoting regular critiques of bias and "secret committees" within the Grammys.

Simpson was scheduled to appear at the Woodstock 50 music festival in August 2019, but the festival was postponed due to the festival's cancellation.

Simpson's first bluegrass album, titled Cuttin' Grass Vol., was released on October 16, 2020. Butcher Shoppe Sessions, January 1: The Butcher Shoppe Sessions. The album includes 20 songs from his first three albums, as well as songs dating back to his mid-2000s band Sunday Valley. Simpson's first collaboration with Thirty Tigers (a production company for independent artists), whom he began to work with after completing his deal with Elektra. The album was officially released by High Top Mountain Records, a Simpson brand, and Thirty Tigers-owned it. Simpson's Cuttin' Grass Vol. 4 came out on December 11, 2020. Simpson was "too afraid to do on volume 1" in a series made up of 12 new bluegrass recordings. Simpson's Cuttin' Grass collection showcased a return to independent music, with the remark that "I'm increasingly aware of what I already knew," she said every day.

On August 20, 2021, Simpson released The Ballad of Dood and Juanita. "traditional country, bluegrass, and mountain music," the album's producer referred to as "traditional country, bluegrass, and mountain music, as well as gospel and a cappella." It was written and recorded in less than a week, alongside the same musicians Simpson worked with for the Cuttin' Grass collection.

Simpson said that The Ballad of Dood and Juanita would be the last record he wishes to see under his own name in an interview with Rolling Stone on the album's debut, adding "this is the last Sturgill record." The Ballad of Dood and Juanita produced a five-album "arc" he had imagined and had already committed to, spanning five main albums and minus the Cuttin' Grass collection. Simpson, on the other hand, expressed the desire to form a strong band with many musicians he admires, assuaging that this will be more "democratic" in terms of innovation. Simpson postponed his remaining tour dates for the remainder of the year after suffering from a vocal cord hemorrhage in September 2021.

Acting career

Simpson made his acting debut in Orca Park, a 2011 independent film. He appeared in the short film Black Hog Gut in 2018. He played Ken Fry, a laid-off steel mill worker who sells stolen products in his first significant role in the CBS All Access television series One Dollar, in which he appears in many episodes. He wrote and performed the theme song for Jim Jarmusch's horror-comedy film The Dead Don't Die in which he also appeared as "Sturgill Zombie" in 2019. He appeared in the horror film The Hunt just a few years later, as a police officer killed in a fight with one of the film's protagonists. Simpson appeared in the drama film Materna in the same year.

Simpson was cast in the forthcoming Martin Scorsese film Killers of the Flower Moon in 2021 as bootlegger Henry Grammer, who was involved in the Osage Indian murders. Simpson's role in the film was announced on April 6, 2021; fellow country singer Jason Isbell was also confirmed as being part of the cast.

Simpson has also expressed an interest in screenwriting; in a 2020 interview, he said he was working on a "punk rock" revival of the 1981 film An American Werewolf in London, as well as a script based on his Navy experience. Simpson said he did not identify himself as an actor, but rather a creative individual seeking a voice wherever that may appear.

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