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Sturgill Simpson Reveals New Album, Tour - and Name

Sturgill Simpson is back with an upcoming new album, new tour - and a new name. Simpson revealed a new persona named Johnny Blue Skies, as well as a new album, Passage Du Desir, which is due July 12 via his own independent label High Top Mountain Records.

Johnny Blue Skies recorded and produced the project with David Ferguson at Nashville's Clement House Recording Studio, as well as at London's Abbey Road Studios. The upcoming project marks his first since 2021's The Ballad of Dood and Juanita .

The eight-song project will include compositions including "Mint Tea," "If the Sun Never Rises Again," "Swamp of Sadness" and "Jupiter's Faerie."

Simpson's new moniker will be introduced to his audiences on his upcoming Why Not? Tour this fall, which will launch Aug. 11 with a festival slot at Outside lands in San Francisco. His band includes drummer Miles Miller, guitarist Laur Joamets, bassist Kevin Black, and keyboardist Robbie Crowell.

The tour includes shows in Nashville (Oct. 11 at Bridgestone Arena), Detroit's Fox Theatre, The Gorge Amphitheater in George, Wash., as well as two shows at Toronto, Ontario's Massey Hall and two shows at Chicago's The Salt Shed.

See the track list for Passage Du Desir below, as well as the full tour dates listing:

Passage Du Desir  tracklist:

• "Swamp of Sadness"
• "If the Sun Never Rises Again"
• "Scooter Blues"
• "Jupiter's Faerie"
• "Right Kind of Dream"
• "One for the Road"

Tour dates:

• Aug. 9-11-San Francisco, CA-Outside Lands
• Sept. 14-Los Angeles, CA-The Greek Theatre*
• Sept. 15-Santa Barbara, CA-Santa Barbara Bowl*
• Sept. 17-West Valley City, UT-Maverik Center*
• Sept. 19-Bend, OR-Hayden Homes Amphitheater*
• Sept. 20-George, WA-The Gorge Amphitheatre†
• Sept. 22-Missoula, MT-KettleHouse Amphitheater*
• Sept. 24-Moorhead, MN-Bluestem Center for the Arts Amphitheater*
• Sept. 25-Minneapolis, MN-Roy Wilkins Auditorium*
• Sept. 27-Lexington, KY-Rupp Arena*
• Sept. 28-Detroit, MI-Fox Theatre*
• Oct. 1-Chicago, IL-Salt Shed*
• Oct. 2-Chicago, IL-Salt Shed*
• Oct. 4-Brandon, MS-The Brandon Amphitheater*
• Oct. 4-6-Austin, TX-Austin City Limits Music Festival
• Oct. 8-Oklahoma City, OK-Criterion*
• Oct. 9-Rogers, AR-Walmart AMP*
• Oct. 11-13-Austin, TX-Austin City Limits Music Festival
• Oct. 15-St. Louis, MO-Fabulous Fox Theatre*
• Oct. 18-Pittsburgh, PA-Petersen Events Center*
• Oct. 19-Forest Hills, NY-Forest Hills Stadium
• Oct. 21-Asheville, NC-ExploreAsheville.com Arena* 
• Oct. 22-Cary, NC-Koka Booth Amphitheatre*
• Oct. 24-Duluth, GA-Gas South Arena*
• Oct. 25-Nashville, TN-Bridgestone Arena*
• Nov. 12-Philadelphia, PA-The Met*
• Nov. 15-Hampton, VA-Hampton Coliseum*
• Nov. 18-Washington, DC-The Anthem*
• Nov. 20-Toronto, ON-Massey Hall*
• Nov. 21-Toronto, ON-Massey Hall*
• Nov. 23-Boston, MA-MGM Music Hall at Fenway*

*"An Evening with Sturgill Simpson"

†with very special guest Lord Huron

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A decade following the breakout success of his May 2014-released album "Metamodern Sounds in Country Music," Sturgill Simpson has announced not just his forthcoming eighth album — July 12's "Passage Du Desir" — under a new alias, Johnny Blue Skies, but also a 28-date North American tour.

Famously, Simpson noted he would only release five studio albums under his name. His Johnny Blue Skies debut will be released via his own independent label, High Top Mountain Records. Simpson (credited as Johnny Blue Skies) and David Ferguson co-produced songs recorded at Nashville, Tennessee's Clement House Recording Studio and London's Abbey Road Studios .

"Passage Du Desir" is currently available for pre-order at shop.sturgillsimpson.com .

The Passage du Desir is a shopping district in downtown Paris' 10th arrondissement, or district, located a 20-minute drive east of the Eiffel Tower.

In a 2021 feature for the Nashville Tennessean , part of the USA TODAY Network, Simpson noted that he idealized a career in which he was free of making records that sustained a self-branded industry as a machine.

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"To me, that sounds like prison. It's a job, you're a politician."

Instead, the past decade has seen him achieve Grammy-winning acclaim for five full-length studio albums, two COVID-19 quarantine bluegrass projects — "Cuttin' Grass Vol. 1 and Vol. 2" — and acting in film and television roles, including "The Dead Don't Die," " Queen & Slim ," " Killers of the Flower Moon ," and " The Righteous Gemstones ."

Regarding the sound that his Johnny Blue Skies debut could encompass, he offered to The Tennessean in 2021 that he would need to "(have) something to say" and be "really excited about" a "really great idea for a record." 

"I'll put it this way, if I go back into the studio it'll be because I thought of the complete and total reinvention that gets me excited," Simpson said. "But it won't be my name. I'm done with that all that."

Sturgill Simpson tour 2024 tickets: What you need to know

Fans are being asked to register before tickets go on sale. Registration for the pre-sale is open until June 10 at 8:59 p.m. PT or 11:59 p.m. ET via sturgillsimpsonlive.com  for early access to the artist pre-sale starting June 12 at 10 a.m. local time. A limited number of tickets will be available for the general public on June 14 at 10 a.m. local time while supplies last.

Sturgill Simpson tour 2024 dates

• Aug. 9-11 – San Francisco @ Outside Lands Festival
• Sept. 14 – Los Angeles @ The Greek Theatre
• Sept. 15 – Santa Barbara, California @ Santa Barbara Bowl
• Sept. 17 – West Valley City, Utah @ Maverik Center
• Sept. 19 – Bend, Oregon @ Hayden Homes Amphitheater
• Sept. 20 – George, Washington @ The Gorge Amphitheatre
• Sept. 22 – Missoula, Montana @ KettleHouse Amphitheater
• Sept. 24 – Moorhead, Minnesota @ Bluestem Center for the Arts Amphitheater
• Sept. 25 – Minneapolis @ Roy Wilkins Auditorium
• Sept. 27 – Lexington, Kentucky @ Rupp Arena
• Sept. 28 – Detroit @ Fox Theatre
• Oct. 1 – Chicago @ Salt Shed
• Oct. 2 – Chicago @ Salt Shed
• Oct. 4 – Brandon, Missouri @ The Brandon Amphitheater
• Oct. 4-6 – Austin, Texas @ Austin City Limits Music Festival
• Oct. 8 – Oklahoma City @ Criterion
• Oct. 9 – Rogers, Arkansas @ Walmart AMP
• Oct. 11-13 – Austin, Texas @ Austin City Limits Music Festival
• Oct. 15 – St. Louis @ Fabulous Fox Theatre
• Oct. 18 – Pittsburgh @ Petersen Events Center
• Oct. 19 – Forest Hills, New York @ Forest Hills Stadium
• Oct. 21 – Ashville, North Carolina @ ExploreAsheville.com Arena
• Oct. 22 – Cary, North Carolina @ Koka Booth Amphitheatre
• Oct. 24 – Duluth, Georgia @ Gas South Arena
• Oct. 25 – Nashville, Tennessee @ Bridgestone Arena
• Nov. 12 – Philadelphia @ The Met
• Nov. 15 – Hampton, Virginia @ Hampton Coliseum
• Nov. 18 – Washington, D.C. @ The Anthem
• Nov. 20 – Toronto @ Massey Hall
• Nov. 21 – Toronto @ Massey Hall
• Nov. 23 – Boston, Massachusetts @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway

Contributing: Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY

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Rush singer/bassist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson made a surprise appearance Thursday night at “Celebrating Gordon Lightfoot ,” the star-studded tribute concert to the legendary Canadian singer-songwriter lineup at the Carnegie Hall of the country’s music world, Toronto’s Massey Hall. Lightfoot, who wrote such classics as “If You Could Read My Mind” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” died last May at the age of 84 — he had played the historic venue 170 times.

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“It was important for us to pay tribute to Gordon,” Lee told Variety. “Not being folk or pop artists, Alex and I were looking for one of Gordon’s songs that might better suit our style of play and we found that in ‘The Way I Feel.’ Its structure was loose and more open to interpretation than many of his more popular tunes.”

The sold-out crowd of 2,750 — most of whom, to hazard a guess, might never have seen a show by Rush despite the musically ambitious trio’s 40-year-plus run — nonetheless responded ecstatically to the unexpected addition of the national heroes, who have sold 45 million albums worldwide, as did the beaming members of Blue Rodeo. Rush’s “All the World’s a Stage” live album was recorded over three nights at Massey Hall in 1976.

“After the gig, Gordon’s daughter Meredith [Moon] said to us, ‘Leave it to Rush to make ‘The Way I Feel’ sound prog,’ so I think we succeeded,” Lee added.

The last time Lee and Lifeson were onstage together at Massey Hall was in early December for Lee’s book tour supporting his memoir, “My Effin’ Life,” for which Lifeson was the surprise guest interviewer. That laughs-filled sold-out event was filmed by CBC Music for the Live at Massey Hall series. Thursday night’s “Celebrating Gordon Lightfoot” concert was also filmed for CBC.

The day before the book event, Lifeson performed on the Massey stage as part of the Andy Kim Christmas show, an annual charity concert by the “Sugar Sugar” writer that follows the same multi-act format with house band.  

Since Rush stopped touring in 2015 — drummer Neil Peart died from cancer in 2020 — Lee and Lifeson have played together in public just four times: the 2017 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction of progressive-rock legends Yes, for which they also gave the induction speech; both 2022 tribute concerts for late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, a massive Rush fan, in London and Los Angeles; and a cool surprise for South Park co-creator Matt Stone, also in 2022, when they showed up to jam with him and Primus for the animated series’ 25 th anniversary concert in Colorado.

Massey Hall has been dubbed “the House that Gord built” because Lightfoot performed there more than any other artist in the soft-seater’s 129-year history (Blue Rodeo is a distant second with 43 shows). He was also the last to play it in 2018 before the $135 million renovation and the first to open it, in 2021. Proceeds from “Celebrating Gordon Lightfoot” went to Massey Hall, which is now a not-for-profit institution. Doyle also announced onstage that “in accordance with Gordon’s wishes, The Estate of Gordon Lightfoot will be auctioning off memorabilia of Gordon Lightfoot, including his incredible and unique guitar collection.” The bidding will start in November via Heritage Auctions .

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The trek will support his upcoming debut album.

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Joshua Bassett is following the yellow brick road on a headlining tour this year, with stops planned for 39 cities across North America and Europe in support of his upcoming album The Golden Years .

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The tour will kick off just four days after the singer/actor releases his debut studio album The Golden Years , which he announced last month . So far, he’s shared just one single from the project, a soft rock number that serves as the LP’s title track.

“If I would’ve known those were the golden years/ I would’ve held you longer that night when you kissed me goodbye through your tears,” he sings on “The Golden Years.” “If I would’ve known those were the golden years/ I would’ve never left you alone when you needed me most, my dear.”

See Bassett’s announcement and The Golden Years Tour dates below.

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The Golden Years 2024 Tour dates

North America:

Sept. 16 — Dublin, IE — 3Olympia Theatre Sept. 17 — Belfast, UK — Ulster Hall Sept. 19 — Glasgow, UK — O2 Academy Sept. 20 — Birmingham, UK — O2 Academy Sept. 22 — Manchester, UK — O2 Apollo Sept. 23 — London, UK — Eventim Apollo Sept. 25 — Brussels, BE — La Madeleine Sept. 27 — Amsterdam, NL — Melkweg Sept. 29 — Paris, FR — Salle Pleyel Oct. 1 — Barcelona, ES — Razzmatazz Oct. 3 — Milan, IT — Fabrique Oct. 5 — Munich, DE — Muffathalle Oct. 6 — Cologne, DE — Carlswerk Victoria Oct. 7 — Berlin, DE — Huxleys Neue Welt Oct. 9 — Copenhagen, DK — Vega

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Joshua Bassett Announces The Golden Years Headline Tour

Debut Album Arriving July 26

Featuring special guest thomas day, tickets available starting tuesday, june 11 with artist presales, general onsale begins friday, june 14 at 10am local on joshuatbassett.com.

Today, singer, songwriter, and actor Joshua Bassett announces The Golden Years Tour featuring special guest Thomas Day. Produced by Live Nation, the 24-city North American leg kicks off on July 30 at Arizona Financial Theatre in Phoenix and makes stops in Houston, Atlanta, New York and more before wrapping up in Los Angeles at YouTube Theater on September 3. Bassett will kick off the European leg of the tour in Dublin on September 16, continuing to London, Paris, Milan, and more, before concluding in Copenhagen on October 9.

Bassett recently returned with the nostalgic new track “ The Golden Years ,” the lead single from his upcoming debut album The Golden Years , arriving July 26. Pre-save the album HERE .

“The Golden Years” is the first new track from Bassett this year, following 2023’s hopeful single “ Just Love .” Last year also saw him sell out venues across the globe on his spring headline run, as well as the release of season 4 of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series , in which he reprised the character Ricky. In 2022, he released the deeply personal Sad Songs In A Hotel Room EP as well as his equally intimate, 4-track EP Different .

TICKETS: Fans can register HERE for artist presales beginning today at 9am ET. Tickets will be available starting with artist presales beginning Tuesday, June 11. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general onsale beginning Friday, June 14 at 10am local time at joshuatbassett.com .

PRESALE : Mastercard cardholders have special access to presale tickets in Italy & France starting on Wednesday, June 12th at 10:00 AM local time. Preferred ticket access is available to Mastercard cardholders in the UK starting on Friday, June 14th at 10:00 AM local time. Visit www.priceless.com/music to find out more.

VIP: The tour will also offer a variety of different VIP packages and experiences for fans to take their concert experience to the next level. Packages vary but include general admission tickets with priority access to the floor, VIP exclusive Joshua Bassett content via a QR code, specially designed VIP gift item & more. For more information, visit vipnation.com .

THE GOLDEN YEARS 2024 TOUR DATES:

NORTH AMERICA

Tue Jul 30 — Phoenix, AZ — Arizona Financial Theatre

Thu Aug 01 — Irving, TX — The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory

Fri Aug 02 — Houston, TX — 713 Music Hall

Sat Aug 03 — Austin, TX — Austin City Limits Live at The Moody Theater

Mon Aug 05 — New Orleans, LA — Fillmore New Orleans

Tue Aug 06 — Jacksonville, FL — Daily’s Place

Thu Aug 08 — Atlanta, GA — Coca-Cola Roxy

Fri Aug 09 — Birmingham, AL — Avondale Brewing Co.

Sat Aug 10 — Nashville, TN — Ryman Auditorium

Mon Aug 12 — Raleigh, NC — Red Hat Amphitheater

Tue Aug 13 — Charlotte, NC — Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre

Wed Aug 14 — Baltimore, MD — Pier Six Pavilion

Fri Aug 16 — Philadelphia, PA — The Met Presented by Highmark

Sat Aug 17 — Boston, MA — MGM Music Hall at Fenway

Tue Aug 20 — New York, NY — Radio City Music Hall

Wed Aug 21 — Toronto, ON — Massey Hall

Fri Aug 23 — Rochester Hills, MI — Meadow Brook Amphitheatre

Sat Aug 24 — Chicago, IL — Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom

Sun Aug 25 — Minneapolis, MN — Armory

Tue Aug 27 — Denver, CO — Fillmore Auditorium

Wed Aug 28 — Sandy, UT — Sandy Amphitheater

Fri Aug 30 — San Francisco, CA — Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

Sun Sep 01 — San Diego, CA — Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre at SDSU

Tue Sep 03 — Los Angeles, CA — YouTube Theater

Mon Sep 16 — Dublin, IE — 3Olympia Theatre

Tue Sep 17 — Belfast, UK — Ulster Hall

Thu Sep 19 — Glasgow, UK — O2 Academy

Fri Sep 20 — Birmingham, UK — O2 Academy

Sun Sep 22 — Manchester, UK — O2 Apollo

Mon Sep 23 — London, UK — Eventim Apollo

Wed Sep 25 — Brussels, BE — La Madeleine

Fri Sep 27 — Amsterdam, NL — Melkweg

Sun Sep 29 — Paris, FR — Salle Pleyel

Tue Oct 1 — Barcelona, ES — Razzmatazz

Thu Oct 3 — Milan, IT — Fabrique

Sat Oct 5 — Munich, DE — Muffathalle

Sun Oct 6 — Cologne, DE — Carlswerk Victoria

Mon Oct 7 — Berlin, DE — Huxleys Neue Welt

Wed Oct 9 — Copenhagen, DK — Vega

ABOUT JOSHUA BASSETT

Emmy-Award winning Joshua Bassett is a skilled musician, songwriter, actor and multi-instrumentalist. Born in Oceanside, California, Bassett began his career with a string of lead roles in local stage productions and his music career began by playing drums in church, teaching himself ukulele, guitar, and piano, and writing his first song at 15 years old.

Bassett is most widely known for his portrayal of Ricky Bowen in the Disney+ original series, High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, for which he notably earned a Children’s and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Song in a Children’s or Young Teen Program. In 2019, Bassett inked a deal with Warner Records, marking the start of his solo career. His debut single, “Common Sense,” debuted in 2020, and the following year saw the release of his self-titled debut EP, Joshua Bassett , which included tracks “Feel Something” and “Crisis / Secret / Set Me Free”, for which we the proceeds were donated to various mental health organizations. Bassett unveiled two EPs in 2022, Sad Songs In A Hotel Room and Different, preceding the release of the uplifting single “Just Love” in 2023, following a sold-out global headline tour. Currently, Bassett prepares for the eagerly anticipated launch of his debut album, The Golden Years.

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6 amazing artifacts from the all-new World Golf Hall of Fame (now in Pinehurst!)

An exhibition at the World Golf Hall of Fame's new home in Pinehurst is dedicated to artifacts from 165 Hall of Famers.

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A teddy bear. A Girl Scout uniform. A Lego tractor.

For Donna Caponi, Nancy Lopez and Sandy Lyle, respectively, these nostalgic objects take them back to their childhoods. The items featured in each of their World Golf Hall of Fame lockers are portals to their youth, meaningful and tangible connections to the years before they won major championships and signed autographs for adoring fans.

It’s not just World Golf Hall of Fame members going back to their roots this spring; the institution itself is returning to its original home. In May, the Hall officially began a new chapter in Pinehurst, N.C., a few hundred yards from where it held its inaugural induction ceremony in 1974 and was located for nearly two decades. After a quarter-century in St. Augustine, Fla., the Hall of Fame has returned home.

The focal point of the new experience is the Member Locker Room, a space dedicated to the 165 Hall of Famers that showcases significant artifacts from their careers and personal lives. Visitors will be able to see everything from Tiger Woods ’ Havemeyer Trophy and the clubs Mark O’Meara used to win the Masters to Annika Sorenstam ’s Swedish passport and Colin Montgomerie’s cricket bat.

Here, six World Golf Hall of Fame members discuss the stories behind objects they chose for their lockers.

Curtis Strange’s U.S. Open driver

My MacGregor driver that I used in the late 1980s is so much more than just a grip, shaft and clubhead. It propelled me to do something that was life-changing. 

We were still in transition from wood to metal clubheads at that time, and in fact no one had won a major with a metal driver yet. I wasn’t the longest hitter on Tour, but I was extremely accurate, which is always a priority in the U.S. Open. 

Going into 1988 at The Country Club, I was playing some of the best golf of my career but had yet to win a major — something I was reminded of constantly. I was able to take that next step by beating Nick Faldo in a playoff, then backed it up the following year at Oak Hill. 

It was the first time someone had won back-to-back U.S. Opens since Ben Hogan in 1950-51 — and that driver was a big reason why. Those two victories defined my career and made me a Hall of Famer. — Curtis Strange

Beth Daniel’s gloves

In 1976, I had the honor of representing the United States in the Curtis Cup Match at Royal Lytham & St. Annes. Our entire team traveled to London early and was scheduled for tea at Buckingham Palace with Queen Elizabeth II. 

I was quite nervous. As we waited, a few of us practiced our curtsies and nibbled on biscuits and pastries. Then the doors opened, and in walked the queen. But nothing really happened for a few minutes because she was a bit shy and reserved herself, and we were told not to talk to her unless she spoke to us first.

Finally, Debbie Massey, one of the more outgoing players on our team, grabbed a couple of us and said, “Let’s go talk with her.” Debbie asked her about horses, and the queen just lit up. She told us that she had been riding that morning and described her passion for horses. 

We had been given white gloves to wear when we shook the queen’s hand to prevent the spread of germs. I took them back with me, and I’ve never worn them since my time at Buckingham Palace. — Beth Daniel

Tom Kite’s wedge

Most people know this 60-degree wedge as the one that I used to pitch in on the seventh hole of the 1992 U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, but what they may not realize is that I used it 10 other times that day. 

That final round at Pebble Beach was so windy, nobody could hit any greens, myself included, so it required a lot of up-and-downs to keep your score around par.

The seventh hole is one of the most famous in golf, albeit one of the shortest. It’s 105 yards and downhill, so it’s hard to imagine hitting anything other than an easy wedge, but that day it was blowing 40 miles per hour from right to left. Only one player in the last 15 groups hit that green in regulation. So while I was disappointed to miss my tee shot into the left rough, it wasn’t a huge surprise.

Thankfully, I drew a pretty decent lie, and I was playing my pitch back into the wind. The ball was carrying quite a bit of steam but hit the flagstick squarely and dropped in for a birdie 2. It’s one of those shots where you want to jump up and down and run around the green when it goes in, but there was so much golf left. I tried to stay calm, and thankfully I was able to bring it home. — Tom Kite

Larry Nelson’s jacket

Both my father and my father-in-law served in the military during World War II, so it was something I expected to do. The United States was involved in Vietnam in the mid-1960s, and in 1965 I got drafted into the U.S. Army, 10 days after my 19th birthday. 

This was the jacket I wore coming home from the West Coast after my time in Vietnam. I was very proud of my military service – it played a big part in shaping who I became, so I thought it was fitting to have this jacket in my locker.

I didn’t start playing golf until I was 21 years old. During my basic training, I met a fellow soldier, Ken Hummel, who played golf in college and told me how much he loved the game. I had never played before, but that always stuck in the back of my mind. Once I finally picked up a club when I was taking classes at Kennesaw (Ga.) Junior College, I got better every day and fell in love with it, too. — Larry Nelson

JoAnne Carter’s hat

One of the highlights of my career was captaining the 1994 USA Solheim Cup Team. 

A few weeks before, at a tournament in Canada, Beverly, a hairdresser who traveled the LPGA Tour with us, said, “I’ve got the perfect hat for you.” She gave me this red, white and blue sequined baseball cap that looked like the American flag. Fitting for an American captain, I suppose. I have a rather large head, so it wasn’t the best-looking hat on me, but I had fun with it. 

I like to needle other players, so I paraded around the locker room that week in front of Laura [Davies], Helen [Alfredsson] and some of the other Europeans. They kept trying to steal it there and tried to again during the match at The Greenbrier, which only made me want to wear it more often. 

The hat became our good-luck charm — I even took it to the White House after we won. — JoAnne Carter

Ben Crenshaw’s shirt

The Country Club [in Brookline, Mass.] is where my life in golf started. 

I played the 1968 U.S. Junior Amateur there, and it really nurtured my interest in competitive golf, course architecture and the game’s history. When I was named captain of the 1999 USA Ryder Cup Team, I was extremely sentimental – both for getting to represent my country and for the venue on which we’d play.

We were trailing by four points going into the final day, but there was a great sense of determination and optimism that we could win. Looking back, the moment that stands out most is Justin Leonard’s putt on No. 17, on the same green that Francis Ouimet made a key putt to win the 1913 U.S. Open.

Even more than Justin’s putt, I hear about the shirts our team wore on that Sunday. I oversaw the design and had them emblazoned with past winning USA Ryder Cup Teams as a nod to the history that had come before us. I’ll admit it didn’t make much of a fashion statement, but it worked that day. — Ben Crenshaw

Mike Trostel is the director of the World Golf Hall of Fame.

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