Sturgill Simpson Is a Raging Horndog on Johnny Blue Skies’ Joyous ‘Mutiny After Midnight’

When Sturgill Simpson announced the existence of Mutiny After Midnight — his second album under the Johnny Blue Skies moniker, and his ninth overall — he promised a piece of physical media that could only be heard as a vinyl record, compact disc, or cassette tape. Railing against the status quo of streaming services and compressed bitrates felt very Sturgill, even if the promise of “a dance record” filled with “pure, unfiltered, unapologetic, relentless disco-hedonism” didn’t. Then, during a weekend filled with wartime anxiety, Simpson uploaded the entire album to YouTube,…