It's Friday night in Bakersfield, the week after the election, and the country musician Sturgill Simpson is on stage at the Fox Theater, singing a Nirvana song. In jeans and a denim button-up over a dark T-shirt, Simpson has led a full band through much of his own catalog, and also through When in Rome's "The Promise" and Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks." We are two hours and 22 songs deep. The crowd is rowdy. Venue staff are attempting to diffuse a mosh pit of sorts that formed near the s...
It's Friday night in Bakersfield, the week after the election, and the country musician Sturgill Simpson is on stage at the Fox Theater, singing a Nirvana song. In jeans and a denim button-up over a dark T-shirt, Simpson has led a full band through much of his own catalog, and also through When in Rome's "The Promise" and Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks." We are two hours and 22 songs deep. The crowd is rowdy. Venue staff are attempting to diffuse a mosh pit of sorts that formed near the s...
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