Sturgill Simpson’s a Sailor’s Guide to Earth Out April 15

8 MARCH 2016

Sturgill Simpson’s a Sailor’s Guide to Earth
Out April 15 on Atlantic Records

HEAR FIRST SINGLE ‘BRACE FOR IMPACT (LIVE A LITTLE)’ NOW

Sturgill Simpson’s highly anticipated new album A SAILOR’S GUIDE TO EARTH will be released April 15 on Atlantic Records and is now available for pre-order.

In advance of the release, the first single, ‘Brace For Impact (Live A Little),’ can now be heard at SturgillSimpson.com. An instant download of the single is included with each album pre-order.

Produced by Simpson, A SAILOR’S GUIDE TO EARTH was written—beginning to end—as a letter to his first child who arrived during the summer of 2014 and features eight original songs as well as a rendition of Nirvana’s ‘In Bloom.’

Recorded primarily at Nashville’s The Butcher Shoppe, Simpson was joined in the studio by Grammy Award-winning engineerDavid Ferguson (Johnny Cash, John Prine, “Cowboy” Jack Clement) and assistant engineer Sean Sullivan. Along with members of his touring band, the album features Dave Roe on bass, Dan Dugmore on steel guitar, Dougie Wilkinson on bagpipes, Garo Yellin and Arthur Cook on cello, Jonathan Dinklage and Whitney LaGrange on violin and special guests The Dap-Kings.

A SAILOR’S GUIDE TO EARTH is Simpson’s third full-length album and follows his break-through, Grammy-nominated 2014 release,Metamodern Sounds In Country Music. Beloved by critics and fans, the record was featured on year-end “best of” lists at The New York Times, Rolling Stone, the Village Voices’ Pazz and Jop, Rolling Stone Country, NPR Music, American Songwriter,Stereogum, the Los Angeles Times, KCRW, Pitchfork, The Washington Post and many others.

A 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

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