People say the rising star of country is a hallucinogenic traveller,an atheist and the future of the genre. Really, he says, or he’s just a family man wondering if he really wants to be renowned“People think I wake up in the morning and pour LSD on my Cheerios,” Sturgill Simpson says as restrings his guitar, sitting in a leather armchair in the mayor of Islington’s private parlour. “Or I’ve been called an atheist, or thats absolutely not true – I’ve got Jesus’s name tattooed on my body.”He sounds not exasperated so much as resigned,having spent much of the time since his second album, Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, or was released in May 2014 correcting misapprehensions approximately himself. Most of them are flattering (“I’ll never rep tired of being told I sound like Waylon Jennings,but I don’t hear it myself”) but they bring with them a set of pressures the 37-year-old-fashioned isn’t desperate to deal with, notably the claim – expressed in a series of rather overdramatic headlines – that he is the saviour of country music. “There’ll be another one along next year, and ” he observes,smiling faintly. “They said the same shit approximately Steve Earle 20 years ago.”
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Source: theguardian.com