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Sturgill Simpson, The Ballad of Dood & Juanita, 2021 on High Top Mountain Records

The seventh studio album from Sturgill Simpson with guest Willie Nelson on “Juanita.” A concept album set in Kentucky during the Civil War, this may be the last album under his own name.

I just love Simpson’s approach to music and composition as well as the whole band here, which includes: Sierra Hull, Stuart Duncan, Scott Vestal, Tim O’Brien, Mike Bub, Mark Howard, Sam Bacco, Jelly Roll Johnson, Russ Pahl, and Miles Miller. (Bob Clement gets credited for “tacos, soup beans, brownies”).

My copy, via a private sale, is the 2022 “indie exclusive” on “natural” vinyl.

#2020s #2022 #Bluegrass #ConceptAlbum #Country #HighTopMountainRecords #MarkHoward #MikeBub #RussPahl #SamBacco #ScottVestal #SierraHull #StuartDuncan #SturgillSimpson #TimOBrien #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #WillieNelson

@livetapes #ThisIsRedRocks #Iguana #ColonelForbin #FamousMockinbird #TimOBrien #LifeOnMars Runaway Jim->Gypsy Queen->Jim Several #SongDebut #previouslyUncirculated Neumann KM184 recording from DAT

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Where The Wild River Rolls

Sturgill Simpson, Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 2: The Cowboy Arms Sessions, 2020 on High Top Mountain

Follow up to Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 1, released a couple of months later. More bluegrass renditions of Simpson’s catalog.

The band again includes many well known bluegrass musicians: Stuart Duncan, Sierra Hull, Miles Miller, Mark Howard, Tim O’Brien, Scott Vestal,and Mike Bub.

Although there isn’t an explicit recorded-at credit, The Cowboy Arms is Jack Clement’s studio in Nashvile. (Mark Howard and the Cowboy Arms link this release to Townes Van Zandt’s At My Window I posted earlier this week).

My copy is the “Indie Retail” edition on blue and white swirl vinyl with a “glow in the dark” jacket. Via a record fair at Mill No. 5.

#2020 #2020s #Bluegrass #CowboyArms #HighTopMountainRecords #JackClement #MarkHoward #MikeBub #MilesMiller #millNo5 #ScottVestal #SierraHull #StuartDuncan #SturgillSimpson #TimOBrien #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds

Sturgill Simpson, Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 1 (The Butcher Shoppe Sessions), 2020 on High Top Mountain Records

Sturgill Simpson is one of my favorite contemporary artists, who generally gets classified as a Country artist but here breaks out into bluegrass. The Butcher Shoppe is actually a studio in Nashville set up by David Ferguson and John Prine. (There’s also a Nashville studio called The Butcher Shop, operated by Butch Walker).

The band includes Scott Vestal, Stuart Duncan, Sierra Hull, Miles Miller, Mark Howard, and Tim O’Brien – some very strong bluegrass bona fides in that room.

These are bluegrass versions of Sturgill Simpson songs, so you get “Turtles All The Way Down” and “Life Ain’t Far and the World is Mean” and “Sitting Here Without You.”

My copy via a record fair at Mill No. 5 in Lowell MA

#2020 #2020s #Bluegrass #HighTopMountainRecords #LowellMA #MarkHoward #millNo5 #ScottVestal #SierraHull #StuartDuncan #SturgillSimpson #TimOBrien #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds

Musiikin ja kirjojen risteyskohtaan mahtui Tom Waitsin Soldier’s Things ja Tim O’Brienin The Things They Carried. Molemmat kauniita teoksia omilla tavoillaan. Eeppinen biisi, tsekit! Ja lukekaa kirjakin ❤️‍🩹

#TomWaits #TimOBrien

https://music.apple.com/fi/album/soldiers-things-2023-remaster/1695048997?i=1695049533

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Purple Bird
#Album #Country #FolkPop #BonniePrinceBilly #JohnAnderson #TimOBrien
https://www.musikblog.de/2025/01/bonnie-prince-billy-the-purple-bird/

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Our Home (feat. Tim O'Brien) - Neue Single
#Folk #FolkPop #News #BonniePrinceBilly #TimOBrien
https://www.musikblog.de/2024/10/bonnie-prince-billy-our-home-feat-tim-obrien-neue-single/

Trump's image as a "great businessman" was something created for TV. He was floundering before he was recruited by Mark Burnett to do "The Apprentice".
His real life board room was too shoddy to be used on the series and a set of a board room had to be created for the show. He was essentially a joke in NYC before the series started.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxxrNhEI3Jg
#DonaldTrump #WeirdDonald #USPolitics #TV #TheApprentice #MarkBurnett #JohnDMiller #TimOBrien #JoyReid #Election2024