Johnny Blue Skies
Passage du Desir
80--97点相当
Progressive Country というカテゴリ
落ち着いた声で、
オーソドックスなカントリー(若干ブルース色)の範囲でもあり
最初からガツンと来る感じではない。
ただ、
さすがに高得点が出ているだけあって
後から確実にじわじわきそうな感触。
Mark Knopfler、Little Feat 的な。
と思って調べながら聴いていたら、
Sturgill Simpson の 別名義だった
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/johnny-blue-skies-sturgill-simpson-passage-du-desir/
Since that Grammy nomination, however, Sturgill has become much harder to pin down, for himself and for us. He seemed to get lost in different roles: first the guitar shredder on the 2019 manga soundtrack SOUND & FURY, then the bluegrass auteur on not one but two acoustic albums, and finally an outlaw troubadour on the song cycle The Ballad of Dood & Juanita. After rupturing his vocal cords in 2021, he announced his retirement from touring, then unretired for a short tour earlier this year. But he is still making good on his promise to record no more than five albums of new material, which represent “the traditional Christian narrative of the journey of the human soul.” The bluegrass records don’t count because they’re almost entirely retreads of older songs. And his latest is not technically a Sturgill Simpson album.
Credited to Johnny Blue Skies, Passage du Desir is simultaneously two things that seem completely contradictory. It’s the first album Simpson has released under a pseudonym, and it’s also the true follow-up to A Sailor’s Guide to Earth. In addition to ditching his given name, he chucks most of the R&B horns and Bakersfield riffs that punctuate his previous songs in favor of percolating percussion, cosmic string arrangements, and bluesier guitars. This is country music caught between earthiness and spaciness, and it reintroduces him as one of Nashville’s oddest artists, who understands and subverts both the square mainstream and the outlaw fringes of country music. It’s been only three years since Dood & Juanita, but Passage still feels like a comeback.
ケンタッキー生まれ、ナッシュビル育ち、現在はパリが拠点
スタージル・シンプソンのJohnny Blue Skies 名義での
1st
Sturgill Simpson
A Sailor's Guide to Earth <2016>
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