Country sensation Sturgill Simpson will continue his sold-out U.S. tour this spring, including dates at Austin’s Stubb’s Amphitheater on April 2 and San Francisco’s The Fillmore on April 18. Tickets are on-sale this Friday, January 23. In addition to the headlining shows, Simpson is also confirmed to perform at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Stagecoach, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Governors Ball, Bonnaroo and the Big Barrel Country Music Festival. See below for complete tour details.
The performances celebrate Simpson’s highly acclaimed 2014 release, Metamodern Sounds In Country Music, which was recently nominated for a Grammy Award for “Best Americana Album” (iTunes, Amazon, Bandcamp). Additionally, the record was included in year-end “Best of 2014” lists at The New York Times, Rolling Stone, NPR Music, the Village Voices’ Pazz and Jop, Rolling Stone Country, American Songwriter, Stereogum, the Los Angeles Times, KCRW, Pitchfork, The Washington Post, Paste, the Nashville Scene, No Depression and many others.
Since the album’s release, Simpson and his band—bassist Kevin Black, guitarist Laur Joamets and drummer Miles Miller—have performed on “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” “Conan” and the “Late Show with David Letterman” as well as on the BBC’s “Later Live with Jools Holland,” “Later…with Jools Holland,” American Public Media’s “A Prairie Home Companion,” and NPR Music’s “Tiny Desk Concert” series. Simpson was also recently awarded “Emerging Artist of the Year” at the 2014 Americana Honors & Awards.
Produced once again by friend and trusted collaborator Dave Cobb (Jason Isbell, Lindi Ortega, Jamey Johnson),Metamodern Sounds In Country Music was recorded live-to-tape at Nashville’s LCS studio over four days in late 2013. Of the album, Simpson comments, “Myriad worldly offerings—religion, drugs, and more—all claim to be the omnipotent universal truth, but in my experience, love is the only certainty. That’s what this record is about.”
STURGILL SIMPSON TOUR DATES
January 29—Knoxville, TN— Bijou Theatre (SOLD OUT)
January 30—Louisville, KY —Mercury Ballroom (SOLD OUT)
January 31—Covington, KY —Madison Theater (SOLD OUT)
February 3—St. Louis, MO —Old Rock House (SOLD OUT)
February 4—Madison, WI—Majestic Theatre
February 5—Detroit, MI—The Magic Stick
February 6—Grand Rapids, MI —The Intersection (SOLD OUT)
February 11—New York, NY —Bowery Ballroom (SOLD OUT)
February 12—Brooklyn, NY —Music Hall of Williamsburg (SOLD OUT)
February 13—Washington, DC —9:30 Club (SOLD OUT)
February 14—Asbury Park, NY—The Stone Pony
February 17—Northampton, MA—Pearl Street
February 18—South Burlington, VT —Higher Ground Ballroom
February 20—Boston, MA— Paradise Rock Club (SOLD OUT)
February 21—Philadelphia, PA— Theatre of the Living Arts
February 22—Charlottesville, VA— The Southern (SOLD OUT)
February 24—Richmond, VA —The Broadberry (SOLD OUT)
February 26—Raleigh, NC —Lincoln Theatre (SOLD OUT)
February 27—Asheville, NC —The Grey Eagle (SOLD OUT)
February 28—Nashville, TN —3rd & Lindsley (SOLD OUT)
March 1—Nashville, TN—3rd & Lindsley (SOLD OUT)
March 29—Tulsa, OK—Cain’s Ballroom (on-sale 1/23)
March 30—Fayetteville, AR —George’s Majestic Lounge (on-sale 1/23)
April 2—Austin, TX —Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater (on-sale 1/23)
April 3—Ft. Worth, TX—Billy Bob’s Texas (on-sale 1/30)
April 5—Lubbock, TX—Lubbock Memorial Civic Theater (on-sale TBD)
April 10—Santa Cruz, CA—The Catalyst (on-sale 1/23)
April 11—Bakersfield, CA— Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace (on-sale 1/23)
April 12 & 19—Indio, CA —Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
April 14—Reno, NV —Cargo at Whitney Peak Hotel (on-sale 1/23)
April 15—San Rafael, CA —Terrapin Crossroads (on-sale 1/23)
April 17—Sacramento, CA —Ace of Spaces (on-sale 1/23)
April 18—San Francisco, CA— The Fillmore (on-sale 1/23)
April 21—Fresno, CA—Fulton 55 (on-sale 1/23)
April 24—Indio, CA—Stagecoach Festival
April 25—Tucson, AZ—Rialto Theatre (on-sale 1/23)
April 26—Flagstaff, AZ—Orpheum Theater (on-sale 1/23)
April 30—New Orleans, LA— New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
June 7—New York, NY—Governors Ball Music Festival
June 11-14—Manchester, TN— Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival
June 23—Toronto, ON—Horseshoe Tavern (SOLD OUT)
June 26—Dover, DE—Big Barrel Country Music Festival
July 11—Morrison, CO—Red Rocks Amphitheatre*
*appearing with The Avett Brothers
