New York Times — New York Times music critics discuss Sturgill Simpson and Merle Haggard’s creative energy. more info

LargeHeartedBoy — PJ Harvey: The Hope Six Demolition Project I can also recommend Cate Le Bon's Crab Day, The Coathangers' Nosebleed Weekend, and Sturgill Simpson's A Sailor's Guide To Earth Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop's Love Letter For Fire is also... more info

Guardian Music — (Loose/Atlantic) Related: Sturgill Simpson: country music's young outlaw shifts shape again Sturgill Simpson has found a novel way to rebut all the claims that he is the future of Nashville. His third album takes a sharp turn away from the questing, ... more info

Newsday — Sturgill Simpson's breakthrough 2014 album "Metamodern Sounds in Country Music" was impressively eclectic in its attempt to redefine country. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Sturgill Simpson's new album, A Sailor's Guide to Earth, is out this week. It furthers his expansive view on country music, lyrically centered around the birth of his son, and features a cover of Nirvana's "In Bloom... Continue reading... more info

Rolling Stone — "I hope you don't grow up believing that you have to be a puppet to be a man." That's Sturgill Simpson, former Navy man, singing to his young son on "Call to Arms," an indictment of America's warmongering, media-stupefied culture that ends his specta... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Listen to "Brace For Impact (Live A Little)" from his upcoming third LP, and check out his upcoming tour schedule, too. Continue reading… more info

Mercury News, California — Sturgill Simpson combines country, jam-rock styles during his Oakland show. more info

Stereogum — Apparently the sweet sounds of Roy Orbison’s “Crying” make people want to fight. On Saturday night at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, country singer Sturgill Simpson covered this song, among others like Led Zeppelin’s “When The Levee Bre... more info

Stereogum — Sturgill Simpson and Jason Isbell are basically the dual high priests of a true bluegrass/folk/country revival. I happen to adore bro-country right alongside their gritty, old-school releases, but for the purists, Isbell and Simpson are proof that th... more info