Sturgill Simpson Releases Two New “Bastard Children” Songs
For those of you who couldn’t bear the thought of waiting another year+ for new music from country music rising star Sturgill Simpson, the music fairy has just left you a sweet little nugget under your country music pillow.
Sturgill has just released two new songs through Bandcamp, affectionately paired together and entitled Bastard Children. The pair includes the previously-unheard “Four Flame Candle,” and “Hey Now.” Hardcore Sturgill fans will remember “Hey Now” from when he initially released it a few days before his debut, breakout album High Top Mountain was released on June 11th, but the track didn’t make it onto the proper album. “Four Flame Candle” also didn’t make the album’s final cut. ” It was one of the first songs I ever wrote. At the time I didn’t think it fit with the album, but now I wish it was on there,” Sturgill told Saving Country Music on the phone from a hotel in Atlanta, waiting for his show tonight at the Eddie’s Attic.
The two songs come from the same High Top Mountain sessions that were recorded at Hillbilly Central in Nashville and were produced by Dave Cobb. “Hey Now” was recorded as a three piece, with Sturgill on guitar, Brian “Freedom Eagle Bear” Allen on bass, and Chris Powell on drums. “Four Flame Candle” features Robby Turner on steel guitar, Country Music Hall of Famer Hargus “Pig” Robbins on Piano, Bobby Emmett on Hammond organ, Kevin Black on bass, and Chris Powell on drums.
Listen below, and make sure to visit Sturgill’s Bandcamp page to pony up for the tracks.
BONUS: New video of Sturgill Simpson with new guitar player, playing “Railroad of Sin”:
September 9, 2013 @ 4:58 am
Good stuff! Is he holding the world’s biggest bag of popcorn?
September 9, 2013 @ 9:15 am
Because he’s Sturgill Simpson, and he can.
September 9, 2013 @ 5:04 am
Dear Sturgill, from now on, please just put everything out there and let us decide if we like it or not!
Four Flame Candle………that’s a good ol’, “cry in your beer” song if there ever was one!!
September 9, 2013 @ 8:47 am
These new songs are F’n phenomenal!! I swear Sturgill can create some really fun songs that get my toe tappin…makes me want to get drunk and dance. He then creates a great ballad that either makes you want to rub belly’s with some honey on the dance floor or sit at the bar and drown your sorrows with the some bartender.
September 9, 2013 @ 10:47 am
Trigger,
I was at Sturgill’s show last night at Eddie’s Attic. That boy was on FIRE! I’ve been fortunate to get to see a lot of great shows recently, but Sturgill Simpson? Hands down, the BEST show I have ever seen! Eddie’s is a small venue, so the whole show had a really intimate feel to . He was just incredible! After the show, I had the privilege to talk to him for a few minutes, and he was gracious enough to sign my VINYL copy of “High Top Mountain.” He was genuine and sincerely grateful for the support, and the gratitude I felt from him for supporting him and buying his music and going to his show was real. It was my first time seeing him, but it damn sure won’t be my last!
I can’t thank you enough for introducing me to such an incredible, talented ARTIST. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!
September 9, 2013 @ 3:12 pm
Jamie,
You’re welcome, but I really didn’t do much more than point at him and say, “Look at this dude!” Sturgill did all the heavy lifting. Guy like him make what I do easy.
September 9, 2013 @ 2:21 pm
Got an email from bandcamp about this the other day.
I don’t know if Sturgill checks this site, but I’m pretty much broke at the moment and living off iTunes and Amazon gift cards. If he’d throw the songs up on either of those, I’d buy them in a heartbeat.
September 9, 2013 @ 2:53 pm
Met him at my work recently. He’s the real deal. Humble as hell.
September 10, 2013 @ 4:47 pm
With artists like this Why would anyone listen to mainstream country
September 12, 2013 @ 1:36 pm
Because a certain percentage of the population is destined to be made up of pathetic douchebags. It’s just how the world works.
September 12, 2013 @ 1:38 pm
And for what it’s worth, this is pretty much exactly how I felt when I heard my first Dale Watson album ~15 years ago. On every track I remember looking at my wife and saying “I can’t believe how good this guy is!”
September 12, 2013 @ 1:43 pm
You may want to check an artist Billy Don Burns The man in the video isn’t him. You cam find out more about him by doing a google search or more videos on you tube. Billy Don is the real deal!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD5ZZRWX23s
September 13, 2013 @ 7:24 am
I can’t stop playing High Top Mountain.
January 18, 2017 @ 6:31 pm
Where did these songs go? Who’s got a source?
July 19, 2018 @ 5:16 pm
To Bad He is a Commie.
August 25, 2018 @ 10:40 am
Too bad you’re too stupid to put another O in your first word in your Simplistic comment. Maybe FOXNews has an online spelling tutorial you can use
December 10, 2018 @ 12:11 pm
songs are unavailable!