Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music [24.96 FLAC]

  Genre: Country
  Style: Outlaw Country
  Source: High Top Mountain Records HTM002 US Pressing vinyl
  Codec: FLAC
  Bit rate: ~ 2,700 kbps
  Bit depth: 24
  Sample rate: 96 kHz

  01 Turtles All the Way Down
  02 Life of Sin
  03 Living the Dream
  04 Voices
  05 Long White Line
  06 The Promise
  07 A Little Light
  08 Just Let Go
  09 It Ain't All Flowers
  10 Panbowl

  Equipment

  VPI Scoutmaster II
  VPI 10" 3D tonearm
  Benz Micro Glider SL
  Musical Surroundings Nova II
  Signal Cable Silver Resolution interconnects
  RME HDSP 9632, AI4S-192 AIO
  Phoenix Engineering Falcon PSU, Tachometer
  Gingko Cloud 11 (TT); Gingko Cloud Minis (motor)

  Sturgill Simpson won many fans with his 2013 debut album, High Top Mountain. It is unapologetic in its evocation of '70s outlaw country. For his sophomore date, he and his band entered a Nashville studio with producer/engineer Dave Cobb (Jason Isbell), and cut Metamodern Sounds in Country Music live-to-tape in four days. These songs and their production values, though immediately reconizable, are more varied and textured than those of his debut--there's no pedal steel here for one thing. The Waylon Jennings-esque quality in Simpson's singing voice remains, but that's built in. His songwriting and confidence have grown exponentially. The set is introduced by his 82-year-old coal-mining grandfather Dood Fraley on opener and first single "Turtles All the Way Down." The track features Cobb's nylon-string guitar, the wafting tapes of a Mellotron, electric bass, acoustic and electric guitars, and sharp drums framing Simpson's lyrics that refer to Jesus, the Old Testament, Buddha, mythology, cosmology, drugs, and physics, before concluding that "love is the only thing that saved my life," making it a glorious cosmic cowboy song