Nice post Goldbrick. Sturgill Simpson is the best thing out of Nashville or Texas or wherever to hit country music in a very long time. I had the pleasure of seeing him several times this summer and his band is smoking hot and features a Estonian guitarist named Lil' Joe. Great songwriting , great singing, great performance, best act I have seen this year. AG posted something about Justin Timberlake on the CMT show the other night. Pretty pathetic when the biggest country music show neglects to put SS on the show, but then again, Sturgill was head lining the Ryman Auditorium that night. Excuse my french, but the CMT show was pure bunk without this guy.
Here;s some clips with his current band
"Turtles All the Way Down" brilliant song. The Dead wish they wrote a drug song as good as this.
I got to see Sturgill the night he was nominated for a Grammy. He was awesome! The show was spectacular and he was amazing. I love his tiny desk session.
Right-on guys!! There's been a not-so-underground movement for real country music and singer-songwriting stuff for quite awhile.... whether you call it Texas Country, Red Dirt, Americana, whatever, it beats the hell out of any Nashville pop crap. Sturgill is it, and there are lots of others putting in the time on the road.
I like blues, but am much more a country/honky tonk guy. I play my harp to lots of it. I'm always looking for something in this style, but when I put in Country Music & Harmonica, I get Home On The Range.... If I'm lucky I'll get Charlie McCoy.
Anyone out there with my craving & knows a thing or two and some licks, let me know.
(I like another thread about pop harp players, it was interesting. How bout some harp player on the real country side....)
Last Edited by LumberjackShark on Nov 10, 2015 1:32 PM
