Featuring Sturgill Simpson and Opening Act Fantastic Negrito
By Jennifer Lamontagne | Observer Contributor
A smoky boat fire clouded the Harbor air before Sturgill Simpson took to the stage and fired up his special brand of alternative country music Saturday night at the Blue Hills Pavilion in Boston. Simpson rocked the house with his Kentucky swagger and heartfelt lyrics.
Fantastic Negrito, touring in support of “Last Days of Oakland” opened the show. The band performed a forty-minute set of heavy bluesy roots rock, which included “An Honest Man” and “In the Pines”. The band’s funky/jazzy beats were upbeat and energizing and the lead singer Xavier Dphrepaulezz sure knows how to work a crowd by weaving in his past as a person and performer in-between songs.