2 (The Cowboy Arms Sessions) by Sturgill SimpsonĪdditionally, Simpson and the Hillbilly Avengers performed “All The Pretty Colors” from Cuttin’ Grass Vol. That gave me the confidence to come in with songs that I was a little more worried how they would translate to bluegrass - but weirdly, it just underscored that, in the end, I guess I’m just a bluegrass songwriter.Ĭuttin Grass – Vol. Call to Arms Lyrics Verse 1 I done Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran North Korea, tell me, where does it end Well, the bodies keep piling up with every day How many more of 'em they gonna. But as a benefit of the musicians all getting to know each other and feeling more comfortable, we took more chances and felt more like a band. For that one, everything was more conventional bluegrass, sort of straight down the middle. On Volume 2, we recorded everything I was too afraid to do on Volume 1. 1 You Can Have the Crown (Cowboy Arms Session) Lyrics Verse 1 Well, I been spending all my money on weed and pills Trying to write a song thatll pay the bills It aint came yet so I guess. I was thinking about my kids, my grandfather, my wife.” Per Simpson, “It’s hard to deny that this is a much more personal record. There are also three tracks from his 2013 debut High Top Mountain and one from his old band Sunday Valley. The bulk of the material on Cuttin’ Grass Volume 2 is from Simpson’s 2016 opus A Sailor’s Guide To Earth, conceived as a message to his newborn son. Maybe I’ll recut it with a hard country band one day, but it just seemed like a beautiful way to end this chapter. Merle loved bluegrass, so it felt like a proper homage, really exposed and stripped down to the root of something. So I finished writing the song, and it just felt weird to imagine it with some big eight-piece band. This just popped up one day in the in box - he sent me these lyrics in a text and he said, ‘From one railroad man to another.'”Īfter four or five years, it was time to cowboy up and give this thing a go. When he got sick, he was still writing songs, even in his hospital bed. “He would call a lot, we’d talk on the phone. “We got to know each other in the last two years of his life,” Simpson says in a press release. Fittingly, the album ends with “Hobo Cartoon,” a previously unreleased song Simpson wrote with the late Merle Haggard. As of August 2017, he has released three albums as a solo artist. John Sturgill Simpson (born June 8, 1978) is an American country music and roots rock singer-songwriter. Simpson and friends recorded Cuttin’ Grass, Volume 2: The Cowboy Arms Sessions at the late Cowboy Jack Clement’s Cowboy Arms Hotel and Recording Spa, a venue once utilized by Simpson forebears like Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, and Waylon Jennings. Lyrics to Call To Arms by Sturgill Simpson from the A Sailors Guide to Earth album - including song video, artist biography, translations and more Login. After dropping Cuttin’ Grass Volume 1: The Butcher Shoppe Sessions in October, last night, without warning, Sturgill Simpson delivered a second volume of his bluegrass album series, which finds him tearing through another 12 songs from his catalog with a crack band of acoustic musicians known as the Hillbilly Avengers. Taylor Swift isn’t the only artist who followed up one of this year’s best surprise albums with a companion piece last night.
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