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About halfway through his new album, Sturgill Simpson sings about identity. In a tune aptly titled “Who I Am,” he tempers a sense of loss with “comfort in just knowing nothing ever stays the same.” ...

Sturgill Simpson has more or less kept his focus on what’s ahead. None of the solo albums he’s released in the past decade have been the same. And even when he rerecorded a bunch of songs on 2020’s ...

Ever ask a question, almost dismissively, as if you knew there wouldn’t be any concrete answer at hand? Such an instance occurred last month, when the same question popped up in conversations with ...

A decade following the breakout success of his May 2014-released album "Metamodern Sounds in Country Music," Sturgill Simpson has announced not just his forthcoming eighth album — July 12's "Passage ...

Sturgill Simpson will make his long-awaited return to music this year with an extensive fall tour along with a new album under a new name, Johnny Blue Skies. After promising to release only five ...

When last we left Breathitt County-born Sturgill Simpson, his persona was, by his own hand, getting decommissioned. The artist who had spent the previous decade derailing country music convention, ...

In the eight years since his last Twin Cities concert, Sturgill Simpson has made two traditional bluegrass albums, an electronic hard-rock record and a cowboy storyteller concept LP. His newest ...

Sturgill Simpson didn’t mount a comeback this year: He staged a reinvention. In 2021, Simpson bid farewell to a solo career that stretched from bluegrass picking to rock concept albums and, of course, ...

Sturgill Simpson is, once again, in the midst of an intriguing creative restart. The ambitious country/psych-rock/bluegrass artist announced earlier this summer that you can call him Johnny Blue Skies ...