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New Orleans Brass Lifts Country Crooner Sturgill Simpson

August 29, 2016 by: Frank Etheridge

"He recorded [A Sailor’s Guide to Earth] with horns and then wanted his own guys to hit the road with,” saxophonist Brad Walker explains of sudden megawatt star Sturgill Simpson and his smash sophomore album. “He didn’t want a Nashville horn section; he specifically wanted a New Orleans horn section. His wife went to Tulane and he’s come down here to hang out a lot. So he knows this is where you come to get a good horn section that can do the type of loose and dirty shit he’s looking...

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