My wife realized I was miserable before I even saw it. Simpson, who conducts the interview while changing his guitar strings before a show, talks frankly (and, sometimes, fiercely) about his time in the Navy, his career shift during his late twenties and, during some of the interview’s best moments, his real thoughts about all those Waylon Jennings comparisons. I think all the time about how lucky you are to be able to say no to everyone. I had a bunch of very traditional country songs. I don't really watch my language much, which I should and I know I should, but it's like I said [in the initial email]: Years in the Navy and on the railroad, those are both high-stress, tyrannical environments. I didn’t even know it was the wrong thing. What's Joe-Beth?Joseph-Beth is a bookstore in Lexington, Kentucky.

Now, maybe sometimes I do take it too seriously, but it's just because I know that this is only any semblance of a legacy that I'm gonna leave for my kids. I read all the biographies. You know, I waited 'til I was 35 to get into the music business. It’s a conversation between artists, essentially, with Shiflett — who joined the Foo Fighters in 1999, adding another bullet point to a resume that also includes a country-influenced solo project, Chris Shiflett and the Dead Peasants, as well as a 20-year run with the punk-rock cover band Me First and the Gimme Gimmes — asking questions that go beyond the standard Q&A fare. The path of a greasy, teenage pot dealer doesn’t usually lead to a $100,000 recording budget and a two-record deal with one of the largest labels in the United States.

The next thing you can do is just go the fuck away for a while, recharge your battery and ask yourself, honestly, do I have anything to say? The story was casual, just some screenshots of his funny account with commentary below. You can go crazy if you let yourself think, "How do I remain relevant?" I love Waylon; I like the funky disco kind of feel, and I incorporate a little bit of that in my music. Like, you’re stuck in a fucking box with a bunch of rapists and murderers and the only thing worse than that is being by yourself?
I’m never going to do that as good as those guys did it so I might as well take elements of that, combine it with the other stuff that I love, and continue trying to figure out who the fuck I am because I’m not sure I even know yet.

Same goes for Taylor Swift. In the mechanics of the industry, the art comes last.

Yeah. Then, when I moved to Nashville, I put out a very traditional country record because that's just what you do. Do you ever think of yourself as lucky? We had a sprawling, open-ended conversation with the Grammy winner and oft-heralded "savior of country music" about misconceptions, the media, feminism, punk, and the end of the world. Foo Fighters, Sturgill Simpson. It [the Dixie Chicks incident] still blows my fucking mind.What's even scarier? Do you ever feel pressure to speak out or say something and use your platform?No, no I really don’t. It’s going to be OK. Other than outright global nuclear war, which in any case it doesn’t matter much.

Whether Simpson’s motivation was to take a public stab at Dave Cobb and others, was to piss of his record label to the point where they drop him or let him out of his obligations (from my understanding, it was a 2-record deal, but maybe there were options afterwards), either way, it was Sturgill Simpson who controlled the agenda of the interview, not Steven Hyden. My manager got an email from Dave that night, at three in the morning, saying, ‘I wanna make a record with Sturgill.
Next thing you know, you're a country singer.

Scott Dudelson—Getty Images The first gig we played three years ago was at Hill Country BBQ and there was nobody in there except the wedding party who didn’t give a fuck about what we were doing on a Saturday night in Manhattan. It's worked out well for you so far.The last few years have been—I'm not really sure that all this is even happening because of me.

“I just thought you had a good point and I wanted to tell you that, that’s it,” he says. You don't worry about what's next?No. When Shooter Jennings — who would later give Simpson his first big break by introducing his music to producer Dave Cobb — first stumbled across the Metamodern Sounds in Country Music singer, it was on the Internet, where he found a clip of Simpson performing live. © Copyright 2020 Rolling Stone, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC.

I really believe that. I just don't see myself as a songwriter or a country singer or any of those things anymore. Who’s it for?Who is this really for? You’re so lucky to be able to do that.I’m very, very fortunate and it’s hard not to be—I dunno, I don’t ever stop to ask myself why it’s happening because I probably wouldn’t get any answers, but it’s happening. Gibson gave me a Les Paul that I haven’t put down since I got it because it’s an amazing guitar. I wrote an article called “A Brief Appreciation of Sturgill Simpson’s Instagram Account”. All rights reserved. Man, if I’m imitating anybody, I’m trying to sound like three or four other people.”, 5. Although…, I mean, you technically have more experience than the guy we’ve got right now just by being in the Navy.I can’t even talk about that man, it’s... it’s just…. Just raw expression. That would be a cool way to spend a year—helping people fucking drowning.

“You know what I honestly believe?” he asks during the interview’s final stretch. I just want to not waste it. I used to play a lot of electric guitar. A lot of the people reaching out and trying to shake hands now are the same people that passed ten times the first year.

I'm just so not there. The hardest part is to wake up every day with the internal structure of the business and constantly remind yourself that it’s not fucking about you, it’s about all these people that you’re affecting and maybe bringing 20 minutes of distraction to from their lives and their jobs that they fucking hate. A friend of mine said one time: the worst thing you can do to somebody in prison is put them in solitary confinement. 3. .sort of.

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