LABEL: High Top Mountain Records
CAT NO: 36602EXC
BARCODE: 793888436701
Tracklisting:
Side A
1. Prologue
1. Prologue
2. Ol’ Dood (part I)
3. One In the Saddle, One On the Ground
4. Shamrock
5. Played Out
Side B
1. Sam
1. Sam
2. Juanita (featuring Willie Nelson)
3. Go In Peace
4. Epilogue
5. Ol’ Dood (part II)
STURGILL SIMPSON
– The Ballad of Dood and Juanita
[*With Illustration Print]
CD – Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Natural Vinyl
(With 11′ x 11′ Illustration Print.)
This is the Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Sturgill Simpson‘s third album in twelve months and his most ambitious project to date.. Written and recorded in less than a week, and featuring the same ace musicians who played on last year’s Cuttin’ Grass albums, the record tells a classic American story of a Civil War-era couple torn apart by violence and reunited by love—what Simpson calls “a simple tale of either redemption or revenge.”
“I just wanted to write a story—not a collection of songs that tell a story, but an actual story, front to back,” says Simpson. He describes the concept album as a “rollercoaster ride through all the styles of traditional country and bluegrass and mountain music that I love, including gospel and a cappella.”
In a career marked by risk-taking and rule-breaking, Simpson has previously challenged genre conventions with 2016’s soul-inflected A Sailor’s Guide to Earth, which won the Grammy award for Country Album of the Year and was nominated for Album of the Year, and 2019’s Sound & Fury, which was nominated for Rock Album of the Year.
The Ballad of Dood and Juanita is available on indie-exclusive Translucent Natural vinyl, and will include another 11×11 print of the illustration on the front cover.
See below for tracklisting…