At a recent show in Milwaukee, Sturgill Simpson found himself face-to-face with a curiously irate audience member. Her issue: the Kentucky-born deep thinker was trying to secretly spread Gnostic ...

You have to hand it to Sturgill Simpson: He found a loophole in his own “quit after five albums” retirement plan. In April, Sturgill informed the world that he will now be known as Johnny Blue ...

About halfway through his new album, Sturgill Simpson sings about identity. In a tune aptly titled “Who I Am,” he tempers a sense of loss with “comfort in just knowing nothing ever stays the ...

A decade following the breakout success of his May 2014-released album "Metamodern Sounds in Country Music," Sturgill Simpson has announced not just his forthcoming eighth album — July 12's ...

Kentucky singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson, who made big waves a few years ago then virtually disappeared from the musical landscape, is back. On June 5, Simpson announced a new name, a new album ...

Sturgill Simpson clearly stated that he planned to release five albums as a solo artist and walk away. True to his word, he dropped his fifth and final album, The Ballad of Dood & Juanita in 2021 ...

“Sit down, baby,” Sturgill Simpson sings. “I got some things that you need to hear.” These words lead the last track on country singer Simpson’s most recent album, Passage du Desir. On the winding ...

Singer-songwriter Sturgill Simpson has always done things his way, and his iconoclasm will be in full force in July when he releases an album under the nom de plume “Johnny Blue Skies ...