Acclaimed country musician Sturgill Simpson brings a show to Brick Breeden Fieldhouse this month. He visits Bozeman as part of his “Who the F**k Is Johnny Blue Skies?” tour on Saturday, April 17th. The music is set to begin at 8pm.
The highly anticipated release of Passage Du Desir marked the beginning of a new era for Johnny Blue Skies – after promising to release only five studio albums under the name Sturgill Simpson. The album has received the most glowing reviews of Simpson’s already widely lauded career – including from Rolling Stone who calls the album “brilliant” and GQ who describes it as an “instant classic” – and was produced by Johnny Blue Skies and David Ferguson. The album was recorded at Clement House Recording Studio in Nashville and Abbey Road Studios in London.
Since his debut, Simpson has released five full-length studio albums – 2013’s High Top Mountain, 2014’s Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, 2016’s A Sailor’s Guide to Earth, 2019’s Sound & Fury and 2021’s The Ballad of Dood and Juanita – along with the 2020 projects, Cuttin’ Grass Vol. 1 and Vol. 2.
Throughout his singular career, Simpson has relentlessly pushed against expectations, earning widespread acclaim and countless accolades including a Grammy Award in 2017 for Best Country Album and six Grammy nominations across four genres: country, rock, bluegrass and Americana. He has also branched out into the world of film and television with recent appearances in Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon and HBO’s The Righteous Gemstones.
Advance tickets to Sturgill Simpson, as well as details about other upcoming events are available for purchase now at www.montana.edu/brickbreeden or at the Fieldhouse box office. •
