Metamodern Sounds in Country Music is the follow-up to Sturgill Simpson’s critically acclaimed debut, High Top Mountain. The album title – an allusion to Ray Charles groundbreaking 1962 record, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music – hints at the psychedelic sounds found within. Compared to Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard, Simpson explores a more progressive side of …
Nashville sounds like Nashville again on High Top Mountain, the debut release from singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson. From furious honky-tonk and pre-outlaw country-rocking to spellbinding bluegrass pickin’ and emotional balladry, the album serves as a one-stop guide to everything that made real country music such a force to be reckoned with.Pure and uncompromising, devoid of gloss and fakery, High …