LISTEN NOW: Sturgill Simpson Bluegrass Album ‘Cuttin’ Grass Vol 1. – The Butcher Shoppe Sessions’
A few months ago, we hinted that Sturgill was coming out with a bluegrass album and well, that that time has finally come. The Sturgill Simpson Bluegrass album, “Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 1 – The Butcher Shoppe Sessions” is officially released. You can preview that Kentucky Bluegrass down below.
The good news comes from a several social media posts building up to the anticipation of this mornings release. The Butcher Shoppe Sessions play homage to the now non-existent studio which was once co-owned by John Prine and Producer David Ferguson.
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Simpson shared his feelings towards the album and the studio in heartfelt instagram post:
” Tonight/early morning Friday 10/16, 2020 midnight/24:00 hours, I am releasing what I feel to be the best work and truest representation of myself as an artist that I have ever created.
It was the last complete album recorded at The Butcher Shoppe, the now non-existent studio once co-owned by John Prine and my dear friend and Producer David Ferguson.
I cannot imagine a better final chapter to the legacy of what was my favorite studio on Earth.
I am grateful beyond words for the time I was given with John and the love and wisdom he gave to me.
I will always miss him and his smile.
Always.
I am equally as grateful for the friendship and mentorship I have received the last four years from Ferg. He has been a touchstone and a source of education that I will never be able to repay him for.
The man has forgotten more about recording music than most will ever know. He helped me and gave me the confidence to self-produce and make “Sailors Guide”. He co-produced both of Tylers albums and Margo’s recent album with me and it has been a source of great personal frustration and pain to see his name as an afterthought to mine or sometimes even omitted in reviews of those bodies of work. He was hired by Cowboy Jack Clement as an engineer at 16 years old and worked for him for almost 30 years before going on to engineer albums for U2 and all of Johnny Cash’s Rick Ruben recordings. More importantly he has been a treasured and trusted friend to me in a town where I have had very few.
So I turned myself and my art over to him completely for these recordings so I could focus solely on being just another “member of the band”.
I am so proud of this album.
I am so proud of all of you for your donations which directly led to the motivation and initiative behind its recording.
I am in complete and total disbelief that I got to sing and record these songs with this group of incomprehensibly talented musicians and more than anything I wish both my Grandfathers were still alive to hear this album.
But they are not,..so instead I offer it to you.
Peace, hair grease, and above all else, immense thanks, healing, and eternal love.
About to drop it like its hot.
Dick Daddy out.”
More About Sturgill Simpson’s Bluegrass Album
The album features 20 songs from Simpsons deep catalog where he plays bluegrass with some of the finest players consisting of Stuart Duncan (fiddle), Miles Miller (drums), Tim O’Brien (guitar), Mike Hub (bass), Scott Vestal and Mark Howard (banjo), and Sierra Hull (mandolin.)
‘Cuttin’ Grass – Grass Vol. 1 – The Butcher Shoppe Sessions’
All Around You
All the Pretty Colors
Breakers Roar
I Don’t Mind
I Wonder
Just Let Go
Life Ain’t Fair
A Little Light
Life of Sin
Long White Line
Living the Dream
Old King Coal
Railroad of Sin
Sitting Here Without You
Sometimes Wine
The Storm
Time After All
Turtles All the Way Down
Voices
Water in a Well
The singer was scheduled for “Good Look’n” Tour“, earlier this year alongside Tyler Childers which was unfortunately cancelled due to the global pandemic.
Additionally, Simpson teased his fans about the bluegrass project during his summer Opry appearance but has been doing a great job at keeping his recordings on the DL. The album release was planned to be a surprise today, however, a fan in Germany did noticed that it was listed for pre-sale and got the word out too quickly.
Overall, we’re still surprised and excited. Listen below, and let us know what you think!
LISTEN TO STURGILL SIMPSON BLUEGRASS ALBUM. ‘CUTTIN’ GRASS – VOL. 1 (BUTCHER SHOPPE SESSIONS)
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