The Peak of the Week this Thursday evening is actually WNCW's Peak of the Year: the #1 Album pick among WNCW listeners in 2014's Top 100 Countdown (by a surprisingly solid margin). Produced by Dave Cobb (Jason Isbell among others), Simpson weaves swirling, psychedelic instrumentation with his strong Waylon Jennings outlaw country influence, for the best cosmic country soundtrack this side of the otherworld. His 82-year-old coalmining grandfather introduces it all, and from there we journey through Buddhism, mythology, hallucinations, and physics: not your typical country music subject matter, but as Jim Lauderdale has become famous for saying, "That's Americana!" Join us between 8pm and Midnight on Thursday.
Thursday Night January 8th: STURGILL SIMPSON - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
