{"id":2307626,"date":"2026-03-02T04:03:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2307626"},"modified":"2026-03-02T04:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T04:03:36","slug":"sturgill-simpson-released-the-new-johnny-blue-skies-album-early-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sturgill-simpson-released-the-new-johnny-blue-skies-album-early-on-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Sturgill Simpson Released The New Johnny Blue Skies Album Early On YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This Sturgill Simpson fella is full of surprises. First, he subverted his vow to only release five Sturgill Simpson albums by rebranding himself as Johnny Blue Skies for 2024&#8217;s brilliant <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2271399\/sturgill-simpson-johnny-blue-skies-passage-du-desir\/reviews\/premature-evaluation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Passage du Desir<\/a><\/em>. This month&#8217;s follow-up <em>Mutiny After Midnight<\/em> \u2014 promoted under the name Johnny Blue Skies &amp; The Dark Clouds \u2014 was promoted as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2489106\/sturgill-simpson-details-new-physical-only-johnny-blue-skies-album-mutiny-after-midnight\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a physical-only release<\/a> for mid-March. But now the thing&#8217;s out on YouTube nearly two weeks early.<\/p>\n<p>In his <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2489064\/sturgill-simpson-details-new-johnny-blue-skies-album-mutiny-after-midnight-in-letter-to-fans\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letter to fans<\/a> teasing the new album, Simpson said he and his bandmates aimed to make a dance record, and the first few minutes of <em>Mutiny After Midnight<\/em> bear that out. The Dark Clouds are cooking here in a way they barely touched on the melancholic roots-rock of <em>Passage du Desir<\/em>. This one begins with the funky &#8220;Make America Fuk Again,&#8221; then blasts off into the revved-up rock&#8217;n&#8217; roll of &#8220;Excited Delirium&#8221; and the swinging, midtempo, Seger-esque &#8220;Don&#8217;t Let Go.&#8221; Things get extra funky again on &#8220;Stay On That.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s as far as I&#8217;ve made it so far, but I&#8217;m excited to see where else the journey takes us. Dive into <em>Mutiny After Midnight<\/em> below.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MUTINY AFTER MIDNIGHT\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QKHGmFvzjJ4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2490827\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lede-admin.stereogum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2026\/03\/Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Under-The-Influence-1.png?w=710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lede-admin.stereogum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2026\/03\/Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Under-The-Influence-1.png?w=425&amp;quality=75 425w, https:\/\/lede-admin.stereogum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2026\/03\/Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Under-The-Influence-1.png?w=850&amp;quality=75 850w, https:\/\/lede-admin.stereogum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2026\/03\/Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Under-The-Influence-1.png?w=585&amp;quality=75 585w, https:\/\/lede-admin.stereogum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2026\/03\/Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Under-The-Influence-1.png?w=1170&amp;quality=75 1170w, https:\/\/lede-admin.stereogum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2026\/03\/Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Under-The-Influence-1.png?w=710&amp;quality=75 710w, https:\/\/lede-admin.stereogum.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2026\/03\/Copy-of-Copy-of-Copy-of-Under-The-Influence-1.png?w=1420&amp;quality=75 1420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 30rem) 425px, (min-width: 30rem) and (max-width: 40rem) 585px, (min-width: 40rem) 710px\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/figure>\n<p><em>Mutiny After Midnight<\/em> is out physically 3\/13 via Atlantic Outpost. Pre-order it\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/johnnyblueskies.lnk.to\/mam\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source stereogum.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sturgill Simpson fella is full of surprises. First, he subverted his vow to only release five Sturgill Simpson albums by rebranding himself as Johnny Blue Skies for 2024&#8217;s brilliant Passage du Desir. This month&#8217;s follow-up Mutiny After Midnight \u2014 promoted under the name Johnny Blue Skies &amp; The Dark Clouds \u2014 was promoted as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2307627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2307626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Sturgill-Simpson-Released-The-New-Johnny-Blue-Skies-Album-Early.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2307626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2307628,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307626\/revisions\/2307628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2307627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}