Country's Sturgill Simpson performs at Petersen Events Center

A country singer who believes he’s best heard live, Sturgill Simpson will bring his “A Good Look’n Tour” to the Petersen Events Center in Pittsburgh’s Oakland neighborhood.

Simpson has produced four albums, winning a 2017 Best Country Album Grammy for “A Sailor’s Guide to Earth.”

Additional music comes from earlier albums “High Top Mountain” in 2013, “Metamodern Sounds in Country Music” in 2014 and “Sound and Fury” in 2019.

His 35-plus date tour, presented by AEG Presents, stops in Pittsburgh for a concert at 7:30 p.m. March 4. It kicked off earlier this month in Birmingham, Ala., and will include dates in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Boston before wrapping up on May 24 in Louisville, Ky.

“We are a live band. Everyone knows we are a live band. Steal the record or give it away, just come to the shows,” Simpson says in a release.

Simpson’s sound is a bit difficult to peg, says one promoter, who describes Simpson as appealing to both rural country music fans and urban hipster audiences.

“Sound and Fury” might have led to some of his popularity with the latter. According to a Rolling Stone review, the album is Simpson’s “most left field, decisively non-country offering” of his career. It’s also, the article states, the exact album those who have followed his career might have been waiting for him to record.

Supporting special forces

Following the release of “Sound and Fury,” Simpson embarked on a six-date club tour, donating all proceeds from those shows to the Special Forces Foundation.

According to a release, $1 from each ticket sold for the current tour also will go to the nonprofit that supports the Special Forces community and their families.

Simpson also released an anime film called “Sound and Fury” via Netflix.

“‘Sound and Fury’ is the best case for musicians using Netflix in wild ways,” said Indiewire, calling it “(the) year’s most hypnotizing long form music video.”

“(Simpson) can glide between synth-rock, glam, dancefloor-fillers; songwriting is king in his world. It doesn’t matter if he’s playing a dreamy campfire song or a two-minute-instrumental stomper. Simpson is the one dictating his sound,” says Pitchfork.

Opening for Simpson will be country musician Tyler Childers. Simpson is producer of both of Childers’ albums, including his August release “Country Squire,” which debuted at number one on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart.

“All Your’n,” the second single from “Country Squire,” was nominated for a Best Country Solo Performance Grammy Award.