Along the way, I wrote the song “Traveller" while everybody was sleeping. We flew out in Arizona in December and drove all the way back to Nashville in kind of a head-clearing moment. The whole album is sort of owing to her, right? My father passed away in 2013, October, and she bought me an old Jeep out in Arizona. It's an interesting and fun thing all the time. It's always wonderful that we get to sing together and travel together. Your wife was singing onstage with you-what's that like? To get to stand on that Sullivan Theater and play a song was a surreal thing, for sure. The song is by Dean Dillon-the songwriting icon who was George Strait's go-to guy-and Linda Hargrove, the low-key “Blue Jean Country Queen." Beyond being a fantastic throwback and a romantic cut, I like to think of the song as doing double duty: a tribute to that kind of writer country's always had, more than any other genre, where their solo work never feels like a shrewd career move so much as it does it does the inevitable spilling-over of some uncontainable talent.Ĭongratulations on your performance on Letterman last week. While most of the album was written by Stapleton, of course, it also includes a rendition of “Tennessee Whiskey," which I'm excited to debut today. Out May 5th, it's got the best parts of the genre: softness within toughness. Co-produced with Dave Cobb, who's made a name for himself doing rock-solid, tradition-minded work for Sturgill Simpson and Jason Isbell, Traveller is easily, and naturally, the year's strongest country debut.
This year, Stapleton is finally releasing an LP all his own: Traveller. Who else can say that? The songs he writes aren't lead singles, usually-they're the substantial, soulful cuts without which there would be no justification for someone's album in the first place. George Strait recorded a Chris Stapleton song, but then so did Adele.
In Nashville, where he moved from Kentucky 15 years ago, he's penned songs for the upper crust of country: Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney, Sheryl Crow, Luke Bryan. Chris Stapleton is one of those songwriters.
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