{"id":59191,"date":"2026-03-02T16:11:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/sturgill-simpson-releases-new-album-mutiny-after-midnight-early\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:11:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:11:32","slug":"sturgill-simpson-releases-new-album-mutiny-after-midnight-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/02\/sturgill-simpson-releases-new-album-mutiny-after-midnight-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Sturgill Simpson Releases New Album &#8216;Mutiny After Midnight&#8217; Early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>After promising the new Johnny Blue Skies album <em>Mutiny After Midnight <\/em>would only be available on CD, vinyl, and cassette, the record has dropped early on YouTube<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sturgill-simpson-johnny-blue-skies-mutiny-after-midnight-1235514899\/\">Sturgill Simpson\u2019s new album<\/a> has arrived two weeks early, and you can actually listen to it online.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOver the weekend, the country innovator\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/sturgill-simpson-2025-tour-dates-1235266781\/\">latest record as Johnny Blue Skies<\/a>, <em>Mutiny After Midnight<\/em>, appeared in full on YouTube. The LP was previously scheduled to drop March 13, and was supposed to only be available on vinyl, CD, and cassette. As it stands, YouTube is the only place the album is available digitally, and it hasn\u2019t been released to any other streaming services.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<em>Mutiny After Midnight <\/em>marks Simpson\u2019s ninth studio album and second under his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/johnny-blue-skies\/\" id=\"auto-tag_johnny-blue-skies\" data-tag=\"johnny-blue-skies\">Johnny Blue Skies<\/a> moniker, following 2024\u2019s celebrated <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/sturgill-simpsons-passage-du-desir-1235058934\/\">Passage du Desir<\/a><\/em>. The album was recorded at Dan Auerbach\u2019s Easy Eye Studio in Nashville, with Simpson producing and his Johnny Blue Skies backing band, the Dark Clouds, providing accompaniment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MUTINY AFTER MIDNIGHT\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" 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><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhen the album was announced last month, Simpson explained that many of the songs were written on the spot, and the band\u2019s goal was to \u201cmake a dance record.\u201d He added, \u201c I wrote words to what is happening in the world and my life in real time, and played with a group of musicians I deeply love and respect. Together, we made an album that is very fun and will hopefully offer some relief from darkness in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<em>Mutiny After Midnight <\/em>also marks a return for Simpson to Atlantic Records, the label that released his landmark 2016 LP, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/best-albums-2010s-ranked-913997\/sturgill-simpson-sailors-guide-to-earth-917461\/\">A Sailor\u2019s Guide to Earth<\/a><\/em>. While his 2019 record, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/sturgill-simpsons-sound-and-fury-is-his-most-left-field-record-yet-890662\/\">Sound &amp; Fury<\/a><\/em>, was released on Elektra (another Warner Music subsidiary, like Atlantic), his last several releases have all been through his own High Top Mountain Records. (<em>Mutiny After Midnight <\/em>is a joint release between High Top and Atlantic.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/sturgill-simpson-new-album-mutiny-after-midnight-early-1235523669\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After promising the new Johnny Blue Skies album Mutiny After Midnight would only be available on CD, vinyl, and cassette, the record has dropped&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":59192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}