Sturgill Simpson To Release New Album In April, Tour Coming In May

Sturgill Simpson. Photo: photo credit: Reto Sterchi

Sturgill Simpson. Photo: photo credit: Reto Sterchi

Sturgill Simpson‘s highly-anticipated new project, A Sailor’s Guide To Earth, will release April 15 on Atlantic Records. It’s the follow-up to 2014’s Grammy-nominated Metamodern Sounds In Country Music.

The album’s first single, “Brace For Impact (Live A Little)” premieres today (March 4) at SturgillSimpson.com.

The album, which Simpson produced, was written–from start to finish–as a letter to his first child, who arrived in 2014. The project features eight original songs, plus a rendition of Nirvana’s “In Bloom.” It was recorded primarily at Nashville’s The Butcher Shoppe, with engineer David Ferguson and assistant engineer Sean Sullivan.

Simpson will launch a spring tour on May 5 at Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater, in Austin, Texas. Dates in Oklahoma, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Michigan, and more follow.

unnamedA SAILOR’S GUIDE TO EARTH TRACK-LISTING:
1. Welcome to Earth (Pollywog)
2. Breakers Roar
3. Keep It Between The Lines
4. Sea Stories
5. In Bloom
6. Brace For Impact (Live A Little)
7. All Around You
8. Oh Sarah
9. Call To Arms

 

STURGILL SIMPSON TOUR DATES
May 5: Austin, Texas (Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater)
May 6: Austin, Texas (Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater)
May 7: Dallas, Texas (The Bomb Factory)
May 10: Houston, Texas (White Oak Music Hall)
May 11: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (Criterion Theater)
May 16: Lexington, Kentucky (Lexington Opera House)
May 17: Lexington, Kentucky (Lexington Opera House)
May 18: Chattanooga, Tennessee (Tivoli Theater)
May 20: Knoxville, Tennessee (Tennessee Theater)
May 21: Indianapolis, Indiana (Egyptian Room – Old National Centre)
May 22: Louisville, Kentucky (Louisville Palace)
June 2: Royal Oak, Michigan (Royal Oak Theatre)
June 3: Chicago, Illinois (Riviera Theatre)
June 4: Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Riverside Theater)
June 5: Minneapolis, Minnesota (First Avenue)
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