Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide To Earth

180-gram vinyl

2017 Grammy for Best Country Album!

Produced by Sturgill Simpson, A Sailor's Guide To Earth was written — beginning to end — as a letter to his first child who arrived during the summer of 2014 and features eight original songs as well as a rendition of Nirvana's "In Bloom."

Recorded primarily at Nashville's The Butcher Shoppe, Simpson was joined in the studio by Grammy Award-winning engineer David Ferguson (Johnny Cash, John Prine, "Cowboy" Jack Clement) and assistant engineer Sean Sullivan. Along with members of his touring band, the album features Dave Roe on bass, Dan Dugmore on steel guitar, Dougie Wilkinson on bagpipes, Garo Yellin and Arthur Cook on cello, Jonathan Dinklage and Whitney LaGrange on violin and special guests The Dap-Kings.

A Sailor's Guide To Earth is Simpson's third full-length album and follows his breakthrough, Grammy-nominated 2014 release, Metamodern Sounds In Country Music. Beloved by critics and fans, the record was featured on year-end "best of" lists at The New York Times, Rolling Stone, the Village Voices' Pazz and Jop, Rolling Stone Country, NPR Music, American Songwriter, Stereogum, the Los Angeles Times, KCRW, Pitchfork, The Washington Post and many others.

1. Side 1

2. Welcome To Earth (Pollywog)

3. Breakers Roar

4. Keep It Between The Lines

5. Sea Stories

6. In Bloom

7. Side 2

8. Brace For Impact (Live A Little)

9. All Around You

10. Oh Sarah

11. Call To Arms

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