Sturgill Simpson Confirms Extensive North American Tour

Sturgill Simpson will embark on an extensive North American tour this summer and fall, including dates at Brooklyn's Kings Theatre, D.C.'s DAR Constitution Hall, Denver's Paramount Theatre (two nights), Seattle's Paramount Theatre and L.A.'s The Wiltern (two nights). Tickets for the newly confirmed shows will go on-sale this Friday, May 20 at 10:00AM local time (unless otherwise noted). See below for the complete itinerary.

The tour celebrates Simpson's widely praised new album A Sailor's Guide To Earth, which sold 55,000 units in its first week (with over 52,000 in pure albums sales) debuting at #1 on the Billboard Country Albums chart, #1 on the Billboard Current Albums chart, #1 on Billboard Current Digital Albums chart and #3 on the overall Billboard 200 chart. A Sailor's Guide To Earth also debuted at #1 on the Billboard Vinyl Albums chart with over 9,400 copies sold.

Available now on Atlantic Records (purchase here), the album continues to receive overwhelming critical acclaim-Pitchfork proclaims, "A Sailor's Guide to Earth finds Sturgill Simpson weirder and more adventurous than ever, forging a bold new way forward" and goes on to assert, ""It's a deeply personal album that, while establishing Simpson as the defining songwriter of his class, displays an artistic growth that defies any sort of easy label." Additionally, Rolling Stone awarded the album 4-stars calling it, "a spectacular mic drop of a third LP," while The New York Times praises, "Sailor's Guide is rowdier, more emotionally insular and also far more musically surprising, an album of raw country cut with rich and messy Southern soul and sleek orchestral bombast" and Esquire Magazine declares, "It's hard to believe any other record this year will raise as many eyebrows, invite as many questions, or be as instantly beloved." Moreover, NPR Music describes "Brace For Impact (Live A Little)," as "thrilling new music," while Stereogum calls "In Bloom," "transcendent...Simpson turned 'In Bloom' into first a weepy, twangy ballad and then a celebratory blast of brass, his drawl doing justice to Cobain's lyrics all the while."

In celebration of the release, Simpson recently performed "Brace For Impact (Live A Little)" on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" as well as "In Bloom" and "Call To Arms" on "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" and "Oh Sarah" on "Conan." Additionally, Simpson and his band recently performed the new album-from beginning to end-for KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic. Recorded at L.A.'s legendary Apogee Studios, the complete performance can now be viewed/heard here.

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.

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 from 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.

A SAILOR'S GUIDE TO EARTH TRACK LIST

1. Welcome to Earth (Pollywog)

2. Breakers Roar

3. Keep It Between The Lines

4. Sea Stories

5. In Bloom

6. Brace For Impact (Live A Little)

7. All Around You

8. Oh Sarah

9. Call To Arms

STURGILL SIMPSON TOUR DATES

May 16-Lexington, KY-Lexington Opera House (SOLD OUT)

May 17-Lexington, KY- Lexington Opera House (SOLD OUT)

May 18-Chattanooga, TN-Tivoli Theater (SOLD OUT)

May 20-Knoxville, TN-Tennessee Theater (SOLD OUT)

May 21-Indianapolis, IN-Egyptian Room - Old National Centre (SOLD OUT)

May 22-Louisville, KY-Louisville Palace (SOLD OUT)

June 2-Royal Oak, MI-Royal Oak Theatre (Tickets)

June 3-Chicago, IL-Riviera Theatre (SOLD OUT)

June 4-Milwaukee, WI-Riverside Theater (Tickets)

June 5-Minneapolis, MN-First Avenue (SOLD OUT)

July 2-Roskilde, Denmark-Roskilde Festival

July 4-Göteborg, Sweden-Pustervik

July 5-Stockholm, Sweden-Berns

July 8-Lille, Belgium-Sjock Festival

July 9-Nijmegen, Netherlands-Doornroosje

July 11-Manchester, U.K.-Gorilla

July 12-Gateshead, U.K.-The Sage

July 13-Glasgow, U.K.-O2 ABC

July 15-London, U.K.-Shepherd's Bush Empire

July 16-Southwold, U.K.-Latitude Festival

August 4-Montreal, QC-Virgin Mobile Corona Theatre

August 5-London, ON-Centennial Hall

August 6 & 7-Toronto, ON-Danforth Music Hall

August 9-Green Bay, WI-Meyer Theatre

August 10-Fargo, ND-Fargo Theatre

August 12-Winnipeg, MB-Burton Cummings Theatre

August 13-Saskatoon, SK-O'Brians Event Centre

August 14-Edmonton, AB-Union Hall

August 16-Calgary, AB-MacEwan Hall

August 18 & 19-Vancouver, BC-Vogue Theatre

August 20-Victoria, BC-Royal Theatre

September 9-New Orleans, LA-Saenger Theatre

September 10-Memphis, TN-Orpheum Theatre

September 11-Birmingham, AL-Alabama Theatre

September 14-Columbus, OH-Newport Music Hall

September 15-Ashland, KY-Paramount Arts Center

September 16-Charlottesville, VA-nTelos Wireless Pavilion

October 7-Philadelphia, PA-The Fillmore

October 8-Brooklyn, NY-Kings Theatre

October 9-Boston, MA-Orpheum Theatre

October 11-Washington, DC-DAR Constitution Hall

October 13-Ithaca, NY-State Theatre

October 14-Cleveland, OH-Masonic Auditorium

October 15-Munhall, PA-Carnegie Music Hall of Homestead

October 28-Nashville, TN-Ryman Auditorium (SOLD OUT)

October 29-Nashville, TN-Ryman Auditorium (SOLD OUT)

November 1-Kansas City, MO-Midland Theatre

November 2-Des Moines, IA-Hoyt Sherman Place Theater

November 4 & 5-Denver, CO-Paramount Theatre

November 8-Missoula, MT-The Wilma Theater

November 9-Spokane, WA-Knitting Factory Concert House

November 11-Seattle, WA-Paramount Theatre

November 12-Portland, OR-Keller Auditorium

November 13-Redding, CA-Cascade Theatre (on-sale Friday, June 17)

November 15 & 16-Los Angeles, CA-The Wiltern

November 18-Bakersfield, CA-Fox Theater

November 19-Oakland, CA-Fox Theater

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