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Sturgill Simpson

July 2024

  • Johnny Blue Skies looking not very cheerful, holding a guitar

    Johnny Blue Skies: Passage du Desir review – heartache all the way

    Misfit American country singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson adopts an ironic pseudonym for this deeply emotional mix of honky-tonk and bluesy guitar

January 2020

  • Sturgill Simpson

    Sturgill Simpson review – a trudge along the highways of Southern rock

    The expectation-defying, Grammy-winning country singer throws all his eclectic styles into the mix – with surprisingly boring results

December 2019

  • Albums of 2019. No 1 - Lana Del Rey

    Best music of 2019
    The 50 best albums of 2019: the full list

    Our pick of the year’s finest albums brings American dreaming, teenage dynamism, heartbreak, barbed rap, impetuous indie and beautiful soundscapes

September 2019

  • Sturgill Simpson

    Sturgill Simpson: Sound & Fury review – country meets funk-rock

  • An object lesson in musical economy … Sturgill Simpson.

    Alexis Petridis's album of the week
    Sturgill Simpson: Sound & Fury review – country's outlaw catches fire

April 2016

  • Sturgill Simpson

    Sturgill Simpson: A Sailor’s Guide to Earth review – heartfelt and homesick

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  • Sturgill Simpson

    Sturgill Simpson: A Sailor’s Guide to Earth review – hard-hitting country soul

  • Sturgill Simpson shot at Islington Assembly Hall.

    Sturgill Simpson: country music's young outlaw shifts shape again

    Simpson’s new album, A Sailor’s Guide to Earth, blends New Orleans soul and Memphis funk to attain the electrifying peaks of his live shows

August 2015

  • American singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson.

    Sturgill Simpson: 'People think I pour LSD on my Cheerios'

    People say the rising star of country is a hallucinogenic traveller, an atheist and the future of the genre. Really, he says, he’s just a family man wondering if he really wants to be famous
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