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Metamodern Sounds in Country Music by Sturgill Simpson
Metamodern Sounds in Country Music is an album by Sturgill Simpson, released in 2014. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 10 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Turtles all the way Down”, on 10 lists with a best position of #28.
Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, Sturgill Simpson's second album, came out on May 13, 2014, through High Top Mountain and Thirty Tigers in the US and Loose in Europe, and its title is a two-way wink: a nod to Ray Charles's Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, and to metamodernism, the philosophical and cultural notion. Dave Cobb produced and engineered it.
The lean, twangy sound drew plenty of comparisons to outlaw country, but the songs keep drifting somewhere stranger, "Turtles All the Way Down" most of all. It earned a Grammy nomination for Best Americana Album, placed 18th on Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums of 2014 and made NPR's list of its 50 favorites that year, setting the stage for the major-label move of A Sailor's Guide to Earth.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Metamodern Sounds in Country Music on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Turtles all the way Down | 10 | #28 | – | 2014–2026 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.