Chris Stapleton Traveller

Chris Stapleton TravellerLike many country troubadours, Chris Stapleton cut his teeth as a songwriter in Nashville, churning out tunes that wound up hits in the hands of others. Kenny Chesney brought "Never Wanted Anything More" to number one and Darius Rucker had a hit with "Come Back Song," but those associations suggest Stapleton would toe a mainstream line when he recorded his 2015 debut, Traveller. This new release, however, suggests something rougher and rowdier an Eric

17 In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning with Chris Botti

"Highway Tune" ("The Rover")

Most of the album does move at a leisurely pace

2018's acclaimed 'It's A World Before You' and the re-press of his seminal 2008 sophomore album 'In Search Of Hope' last year

Audio Mixer: Ken Lomas

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) On "Runaway Trains" and "My Life/Your World" things take a decidedly '80s-sounding turn

Eying the milestone of 50

I Wanna Be Your Dog 5

This is yet another Roots album that lends itself to repeated

Though the remainder of the album is devoted to instrumentals

and there is the occasional bit of mixing trickery courtesy of the record's mix engineer Chris Coady