As he stepped onto the Rupp Arena stage Friday evening at exactly 8 o’clock, Sturgill Simpson made it clear he was not going to let his Kentucky homecoming be upstaged by a “(expletive) hurricane.” ...

It’s been a while since I read or studied Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” but I recall the part about the ailing monarch dividing his realm among his three daughters and their husbands. Two of them ...

You can take the man out of Kentucky, but you can’t take Kentucky out of the man. That’s the verdict from Sturgill Simpson who returns to the music of his native land with his first bluegrass project.