More albums followed, starting with 2017’s “From a Room Vol.
1,” followed by “From a Room Vol.
2” later that same year, and then “Starting Over” in 2020.
And while Stapleton may have seen like a new arrival to some, the reality is far more complex.
“I’m not new to a lot of people in Nashville,” he added.
“They’re like, ‘Man, I’ve known that guy for years.
He’s been buggin’ everybody!'”
To learn more, read on to find out what you don’t know about Chris Stapleton.
“It’s not really fragile,” he said of the coal, “it’s heavy.
That sat on my dad’s desk for years.
It was the first piece of coal he ever mined.”
I gotta figure out how to do that.'"
It didn’t take him long.
“Four days later I had a publishing deal,” he recalled.
When he first started, he toldPaste, there was a certain degree of trial and error.
“I wrote two and three songs a day just trying to figure it out,” he said.
He was also eager to collaborate with other songwriters to hone in on their secrets.
1 songs on the country charts for other singers, that is.
“Probably pushing 200, something like that,” he replied.
“I don’t know.”
That, he toldNPR, proved far more of an uphill climb than songwriting.
“I was writing songs about killing people and burying them,” Stapleton toldAmerican Songwriter.
“That’s what the SteelDrivers stuff was.
It was a lot of tradition.”
Chris Stapleton read that interview and disagreed so much that it spurred him to write Petty an open letter.
After telling Petty that many country artists would cite him as influential, he suggested a suggestion.
It was a highlight of the year for me."
When Chris asked her to write a song with him, it became their first date.
“We didn’t get much writing done that night,” she joked.
According toRolling Stone, the couple marriedin 2007 and welcomed their first child in 2009 (viaPeople).
AsThe Bootrecalled, she’s written songs that top country artists have recorded.
2 on iTunes, while “Traveller” became the No.
Since then, Stapleton has been nominated for 16 Grammys, including three with the SteelDrivers.
“I don’t make records to win awards,” Stapleton once toldTaste of Country.
“I make records to make records and hopefully make the records as good as they can be.
“Sometimes, when you’re 18, career paths are not clear.”
Of course, he traveled many other wrong roads on his way to finding his true path.
“I did that.
I was a car salesman, if you’ve got the option to believe it.”
As he recalled for The San Diego Union-Tribune, “everybody hates a car salesman!
They assume you’re lying to them the instant you open your mouth.
So I always make a run at treat car salesmen a little better than most people do.
It’s not an easy job.”
That particular experience has stuck with him.
But I like bourbon.
I’ll stick with that.”
Stapleton has managed to parlay his love of bourbon into philanthropy.
“The first glass of E. H. Taylor, Jr.
I ever had was in the studio.
“That week, we recorded an entire album, and that album was ‘Traveller.’
We’ve made it a point to keep a bottle around ever since.”
“They were gracious enough to let me come participate that way.”
“They knew we weren’t actors,” Stapleton conceded.
We had a crash course in that.”
Stapleton’s wife Morgane commemorated his cameo onInstagram, sharing a photo of his brief onscreen appearance.
“My wildling is a white walker,” she wrote in the caption.
