What Are You Listening To?

[CRAZY-HORSE]

STURGILL SIMPSON  "cuttin' grass volume 1: the butcher shoppe sessions"  vinyl 2020

a Christmas gift from Lynne
never bothered buying this one because it was a covers album of his own songs done in a bluegrass style
a double album, some twenty odd tracks which even with my love of Sturgill is too much for one sitting IMO
at least some of the songs have different arrangements to the originals which does make them slightly 'new'
album was recorded not long after Sturgill recovered from Covid and everything was locked down
"butcher shoppe" refers to the recording studio the album was recorded in
a good album just a couple of standouts and nothing i dislike so a score of 2.1 seems appropriate on this occasion
I LIKE THIS ALBUM

his greatest song in bluegrass style:





I've seen Jesus play with flames in a lake of fire that I was standing in
Met the devil in Seattle and spent 9 months inside the lions' den
Met Buddha yet another time
He showed me a glowing light within
But I swear that God is there
Every time I glare into the eyes of my best friend


Says my son, it's all been done
Someday you're gonna wake up old and gray
So go and try to have some fun showing warmth to everyone
You meet and greet and cheat along the way

There's a gateway in our minds
That leads somewhere out there far beyond this plane
Where reptile aliens made of light cut you open and pull out all your pain
Tell me how you make illegal something that we all make in our brain
Some say you might go crazy
Then again, it might make you go sane

Every time I take a look inside inside that old and fabled book
I'm blinded and reminded of the pain caused by some old man in the sky
Marijuana, LSD, psilocybin, and DMT, they all changed the way I see
Love's the only thing that ever saved my life

So don't waste your mind on nursery rhymes
And fairy tales of blood and wine
It's turtles all the way down the line
So to each their own 'til we go home
To other realms our souls must roam
To and through the myth that we all call space and time