John Sturgill Simpson (born June 8, 1978) is an American country music singer-songwriter and actor. As of August 2019, he has released three albums as a solo artist. He released two albums independently, High Top Mountain in 2013 and Metamodern Sounds in Country Music in 2014. His second album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Americana Album, listed 18th on Rolling Stone\'s "50 Best Albums of 2014," and named among "NPR\'s 50 Favorite Albums of 2014." His third studio album, A Sailor\'s Guide to Earth, was released on Atlantic Records and was Simpson\'s first major-label release, later earning him Best Country Album at the 59th Grammy Awards while also being nominated for Album of the Year.\n', 'Simpson was born in Jackson, Breathitt County, Kentucky, the only child of a secretary and a Kentucky State Police Trooper, who formerly worked undercover in narcotics. Due to his father\'s work, Simpson\'s family moved to Versailles, outside Lexington, where Simpson graduated from Woodford County High School. Simpson\'s mother\'s family were coal miners. Simpson is the first male on his mother\'s side of the family to not work in a strip mine or deep mine.\n', 'He described his educational career by noting that he was "not a great student". His parents divorced when he was in the seventh grade, and he sold drugs and experimented with LSD during high school. He enlisted in the United States Navy his senior year of high school, and only "barely graduated".\n', '

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