Official Video: Sturgill Simpson Shares Cover Of ‘In Bloom’ By Nirvana

Country-rocker Sturgill Simpson will release his new album, A Sailor’s Guide To Earth on April 15 via Atlantic Records. The follow-up to 2014’s Metamodern Sounds in Country Music features eight original songs as well as a cover of “In Bloom” by Nirvana. Today, Simpson unveiled the official video for his version of “In Bloom.”

Members of The Dap-Kings add horns to Sturgill’s re-invention of the Nirvana classic which also features a string section and pedal steel guitar. Watch the “In Bloom” video which was directed by Matt Mahurin and contains wild imagery to accompany the sleepy rendition of “In Bloom”:

Simpson produced the LP which was written – beginning to end – as a letter to his first child who arrived during the summer of 2014. Sturgill recorded the LP primarily at Nashville’s The Butcher Shoppe, where he was joined by Grammy Award-winning engineer David Ferguson (Johnny Cash, John Prine, “Cowboy” Jack Clement) and assistant engineer Sean Sullivan. Members of Sturgill Simpson’s tour band are featured on the LP along with Dave Roe on bass, Dan Dugmore on steel guitar, Dougie Wilkinson on bagpipes, Garo Yellin and Arthur Cook on cello, Jonathan Dinklage and Whitney LaGrange on violin and special guests The Dap-Kings.

A Sailor’s Guide To Earth is currently available for pre-order.

A Sailor’s Guide To Earth Tracklist

1. Welcome to Earth (Pollywog)
2. Breakers Roar
3. Keep It Between The Lines
4. Sea Stories
5. In Bloom
6. Brace For Impact (Live A Little)
7. All Around You
8. Oh Sarah
9. Call To Arms