A Sailor's Guide To Earth
Produced by 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 break-through, 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.