Simpson returns to the music of his native Kentucky with his first bluegrass project, Cuttin’ Grass – Vol. 1 (The Butcher Shoppe Sessions). The album, which he calls “a mixtape for the fans,” was dreamed up while he was recovering from Coronavirus, and sees him reimagining songs from across his catalogue backed by some of Nashville’s finest acoustic virtuosos. “All the songs I’ve ever written were written on one guitar, my old Martin D-28, and sung in a fashion that’s probably closer to bluegrass than to anything else,” Simpson explains. “I had it in my mind for a long time that someday I want to cut as many of these songs as possible in this fashion, just organic and stripped down to the raw bones of the composition. If you can’t sit down and play a song like that, it’s probably a pretty shitty song.”

A1 All Around You
A2 All The Pretty Colors
A3 Breakers Roar
A4 I Don’t Mind
A5 I Wonder

B1 Just Let Go
B2 Life Ain’t Fair and the World is Mean
B3 A Little Light
B4 Life of Sin
B5 Long White Line

C1 Living the Dream
C2 Old King Coal
C3 Railroad of Sin
C4 Sitting Here Without You
C5 Sometimes Wine

D1 The Storm
D2 Time After All
D3 Turtles All the Way Down
D4 Voices
D5 Water in a Well