Singer Sturgill Simpson is stirring up the world of country music with a Facebook post calling out the Academy of Country Music (ACM) honors, a ceremony taking place Tuesday night in Nashville.

Simpson posted a note saying that the legendary Merle Haggard, who died in April, had been “forgotten and tossed aside” by Nashville. He doesn’t like the fact that the ACMs have created an award with Haggard’s name on it, one that will be given out tonight at the Ryman Auditorium — to Miranda Lambert.

I am sure I will be “blackballed from the industry — and that’s perfectly fine with me.”

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“I’m writing this because I want to go on record and say I find it utterly disgusting the way everybody on Music Row is coming up with any reason they can to hitch their wagon to his name while knowing full and damn well what he thought about them.”

Haggard, he says, felt Nashville had turned its back on him. “In the last chapter of his career and his life, Nashville wouldn’t call, play, or touch him.”

Simpson says, “If the ACM wants to actually celebrate the legacy and music of Merle Haggard, they should drop all the formulaic, cannon-fodder bulls*** they’ve been pumping down rural America’s throat for the last 30 years — along with all the high school pageantry, meat parade award show bulls*** — and start dedicating their programs to more actual country music.”

It’s a lament heard often from hardcore country fans — that country has just gotten too pop.

Commenters under the post are praising Simpson. One fan wrote: “I’ve always loved Merle and the outlaws of the time period. Without them, Nashville would be nothing. But like so many of their contemporaries/friends who have been brushed aside, I’m glad Merle kept it going for as long as he could.”

Another said, “Personally, and it is just my opinion, Merle didn’t need a so-called last hit, his legacy and music will always stand on its own. What Nashville churns out today is NOT country music, they need to categorize it as something else. Not sure what, but it’s not country!”

Simpson goes on to tell an unrelated story of how he and Haggard were all set to appear on the cover of Garden & Gun magazine shortly before Haggard’s death, but editors at the last minute claimed to have photo problems and decided to use current country star Chris Stapleton instead.

Simpson, whose second album, “Metamodern Sounds in Country Music,” was nominated for an Americana album Grammy Award in 2013, updated his post to say he wasn’t attacking Lambert, but rather all the various groups who don’t recognize true country music.

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“My point was that all of these organizations don’t walk it like they talk it … Showing homage and handing lifetime achievement awards to the greats of yesterday while claiming to uphold and hold dear the original values and integrity of Country music’s legacy. Yet these are just hollow words … merely empty semantics. One needs only to look glancingly at the majority of the music that they, along with the [Country Music Awards], predominantly choose to recognize and promote at their award shows.”

As he points out, the ACM is not a Nashville organization. Its offices are in California — but in the last 11 years, Haggard was honored at four separate award shows. He collected a total of 20 ACM awards in the course of his career.

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Miranda Lambert presented him with that award and on Tuesday she’ll be receiving the award. Lady Antebellum will host the 10th Annual ACM Honors and for the first time the show is being produced for television. It will air Sept. 9 at 9 p.m. on CBS.

Honorees include Special Awards recipients Glen Campbell, Crystal Gayle, Eddie Rabbitt (posthumously), Tanya Tucker, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, Jeff Walker (posthumously), Jimmy Webb, Little Big Town. and The Statler Brothers.

Reigning ACM Entertainer of the Year Jason Aldean will also be honored with a special Triple Crown Award.

Meanwhile, Simpson acknowledges that his controversial Facebook post will likely not make him any friends in Nashville.

“I fully realize that as I type this, meetings and conversations are taking place on Music Row to ensure I am blackballed from the industry and that’s perfectly fine with me. I’m not sure how you can blackball somebody you don’t acknowledge in the first place anyway.”