
John Sturgill Simpson (born June 8, 1978) is an American country music and roots rock singer-songwriter. Simpson was born in Jackson, Breathitt County, Kentucky, the only child of a secretary and a state policeman who formerly worked undercover narcotics. Due to his father's work, Simpson's family moved to Versailles, outside Lexington, where Simpson graduated from Woodford County High School. Simpson's mother's family were coal miners. Simpson is the first male on his mother's side of the family to not work in a strip mine or deep mine.
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Turtles All the Way Down
Sam
Breakers Roar
Long White Line
Life of Sin
In Bloom
All Around You
You Can Have the Crown
Brace for Impact (Live a Little)
Life Ain't Fair and the World Is Mean