A Little Night Music: Sturgill Simpson on the Letterman Show

Sturgill Simpson made his late night TV debut the other night on the Letterman Show. I’ve been taken with Sturgill Simpson’s sound since I first heard his song The Promise on the radio a few weeks ago. Rolling Stone reports Simpson’s performance on the Letterman Show prompted Dave Letterman “to herald the barn-burner as one that makes you want to hit the open road. “Every now and then, stop someplace and start a fight,” Letterman riffed. “[Then] get back in the car, keep driving.””

Watch Sturgill Simpson perform Life of Sin on the Letterman Show:

Sturgill Simpson’s new CD Metamodern Sounds in Country Music is evocative of the Outlaw Country Western Music of the late 1960’s and 1970’s made popular by Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson and others. I was a big fan of the Outlaw music genre back in the day, and I’m swiftly discovering a new affection for it listing to Metamodern Sounds in Country Music. In fact, Sturgill Simpson has a velvety baritone voice that reminds a lot of Waylon Jennings and why I enjoyed his music so much.

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