Metamodern Sounds In Country Music may be one of the best Country albums I have ever heard. Imagine Country meets prog rock meets Waylon Jennings and you kinda got it.
Sturgill recorded this superb album in just 4 days with Jason Isbell's producer Dave Cobb in early 2014 and they knew they had something special. Sometimes albums just capture something extra special and that is the case with this gem!
Sturgill mixes honky tonk Country twang with his inherent vocal ode to Waylon Jennings and blends in melloton and great guitar bits. But this album is anything but typical or boring Country music...in sharp contrast this album is deeply moving, interesting, expansive, slightly lunar and edging on psychedelic in a Country sort of way.
Sturgill's lyrics touch a lot of deep chords with odes to Jesus, budda, god, demons,drugs, sins and even Nashville! He also tastefully add in two covers with "Long White Line" and "The Promise" (which is a tune I love by "When In Rome").......this one caught me off guard when I first his rendition.
My favourite tune on the album is the epic "It Aint All Flowers" which offers awesome fuzz guitar and feedback in a twirling psychedelic fest.
Cosmic Country music......
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