#Sturgill Simpson Announces New Bluegrass Album Cuttin’ Grass, Out This Week

Sturgill Simpson is releasing a new album this Friday, October 16. It’s called Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 1 – The Butcher Shoppe Sessions, and the cover art is a photo of him riding a lawn mower. (“And yes,..this is actually the album cover,” he confirmed on Instagram.) The tracklist features 20 songs from throughout his catalog—including music from 2014’s Metamodern Sounds in Country Music and 2016’s A Sailor’s Guide to Earth—performed with bluegrass musicians, as Rolling Stone notes. Check out the cover art and tracklist below.

Sturgill Simpson’s last album was 2019’s SOUND & FURY. He accompanied it with a Netflix movie and graphic novel. Back in February, he announced that he was “done” with his label Elektra Records. “I can go back to just doing it myself better than they do,” he said in an interview with Uproxx’s Steven Hyden. “That’s what I’ve learned. Because they don’t know what the fuck to do with me.”

Read about Sturgill Simpson in Pitchfork’s list “The Story of Outlaw Country in 33 Songs.”

Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 1 – The Butcher Shoppe Sessions:
01 All Around You
02 All the Pretty Colors
03 Breakers Roar
04 I Don’t Mind
05 I Wonder
06 Just Let Go
07 Life Ain’t Fair
08 A Little Light
09 Life of Sin
10 Long White Line
11 Living the Dream
12 Old King Coal
13 Railroad of Sin
14 Sitting Here Without You
15 Sometimes Wine
16 The Storm
17 Time After All
18 Turtles All the Way Down
19 Voices
20 Water in a Well