JD Simo Releases Bluesy New Single “Know It All”

JD Simo

Critically Acclaimed Guitarist/Vocalist
JD Simo
Releases Bluesy New Single “Know It All”
From Upcoming Album, ‘Mind Control’ Out Nov. 5
JD Co-Headlines North American Tour with GA-20

August 27, 2021 (New York, NY) – Guitarist/vocalist, JD Simo, today releases the first single, “Know It All” from his upcoming LP. The new album, called Mind Control is due out on November 5, 2021. Pre-order and pre-save here.

“Know It All” is the first taste of what is to come on JD Simo’s new album. The bluesy rock song, along with the 9 other songs on Mind Control were recorded in his own studio, The House of Grease, in Nashville. JD says, “Like everyone, I was unprepared in how to deal with this new “normal” so I turned to the thing that always helps me: music,” he elaborates, “I just started playing, opening up my socials and jamming and from that, Mind Control was born.”

Mind Control, which is being released on November 5, is Simo’s most unique, original and rawest effort to date. During lockdown in 2020 along with playing live weekly on his socials, he began cutting tracks in his makeshift studio joined by longtime collaborator Adam Abrashoff on drums and the addition of his good friend, bassist-producer-engineer Adam Bednarik (Justin Townes Earle), where they mused and fused a proverbial “stew” of shared musical influences.

Watch “Know It All”

The songs are a mix of the hill country trance blues of Junior Kimbrough, RL Burnside and Asie Payton, the hypnotic Afro Beat of Fela Kuti and Tony Allen and the psychedelic warps of Captain Beefheart, Funkadelic, and Jimi Hendrix. In that swirling mix is also some old school blues of John Lee Hooker, Earl Hooker and Lightnin Hopkins and the spice as well as the raw fuzzy rock of The Stooges and Nirvana.

JD Simo is headed out on a co-headlining tour with Boston based blues band GA-20.

Mind Control TRACKLISTING
1 Go Away Satan
2 I’m In Love
3 Let Go
4 Know It All
5 Want What I Don’t Have
6 That’s When You Know That You’re Down
7 Fucked Up
8 Devil Is Always Watchin’
9 People Pleaser
10 Recovery

JD Simo is currently on tour. Tour Dates here

About JD Simo
The Chicago-born and Nashville-based singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer connects the missing link between Motown and Woodstock as he fuses fluid and fiery fretwork with vital and vulnerable vocals. JD has been acclaimed by Rolling Stone, NPR, Guitar Player, Relix, No Depression, and more. Logging hundreds of gigs annually, he has collaborated with Jack White, Tommy Emmanuel, Luther Dickinson, Blackberry Smoke, and more. Not to mention, he graced the bills of festivals, including Bonnaroo, Warren Haynes Christmas Jam, and Mountain Jam. Phil Lesh, iconic co-founder of The Grateful Dead, invited him to join Phil Lesh and Friends.