Chris Stapleton’s ‘Higher’ Was Around For A Long Time
Chris Stapleton released his new album Higher last week (11/10), just a few days after winning his seventh Male Vocalist CMA Award.
Chris said, “Whenever we’re releasing new music, we don’t have a specific ritual really, but I think there’s a little bit of apprehension, a little bit of excitement mixed together wondering how fans will react, really. I think that’s the main thing going on in our heads when we put something out is we hope whatever we’ve done will be something that people will gravitate to and enjoy.”
He said of the album’s title track, “‘Higher’ is a song that’s been around a long, long time. I wrote it in 2001 in the first few months of being a professional songwriter here in Nashville, and it was on the first demo session that I ever did here in Nashville. So, for it to come around 22 years later and wind up being the title track of an album is a pretty unique thing to me.”
Backstage at the CMA Award on Wednesday (11/8), Stapleton told us of winning Male Vocalist once again, “These things are always fantastic to win, but when you get nominated or invited to these parties, in my estimation, you’ve already won, and you’ve already gotten to be far beyond anything a musician could ever dream of getting to do.”
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He concluded, “We get to do that every day; we get to live it every day. As far as thinking about going into anything, I’m always genuinely surprised to win anything, and I’m always grateful for it.”
HIGHER Track List:
What Am I Gonna Do
South Dakota
Trust
It Takes A Woman
The Fire
Think I’m In Love With You
Loving You On My Mind
White Horse
Higher
The Bottom
The Day I Die
Crosswind
Weight Of Your World
Mountains Of My Mind
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