12 November 2020 - Sturgill Simpson - In Bloom

Admit it, you didn't see the phrase "nature is a whore" showing up in a country song, did you?

And yet, Sturgill Simpson takes a very loud song and makes it into a sweet coming of age tune - which is exactly what the original was for him when he was 13, when, as he puts it in an interview with Rolling Stone:

I remember in seventh or eighth grade, when [Nevermind] dropped, it was like a bomb went off in my bedroom. For me, that song has always summed up what it means to be a teenager, and I think it tells a young boy that he can be sensitive and compassionate — he doesn’t have to be tough or cold to be a man.” 

He does a masterful job with his remake, because he took the time to understand Kurt Cobain's lyrics, and because it touched him deeply.  This is, to date, his only song to chart on the Billboard Country Chart, peaking at #48 in 2016.  

I don't usually open with the live performance and put a music video later, but I wanted you to SEE the emotion Simpson poured into the song before you saw the images he chose to represent the song.