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REBLOG - Chris Stapleton Released A New Song Off His Upcoming November Album And It's Excellent.

Taste Of Country - Chris Stapleton's fourth studio album is due to arrive this fall. Starting Over is set for release on Nov. 13, the superstar singer-songwriter announced on Thursday (Aug. 27), after teasing the news earlier in the week.

Starting Over will feature 14 songs, per Rolling Stone: 11 brand-new tracks and three covers, of John Fogerty's "Joy of My Life" and Guy Clark's "Old Friends" and "Worry B Gone." Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench play on a few of the album's tracks, while Campbell also co-wrote two of its songs with Stapleton.

The first single from Starting Over, its title track, arrived on Thursday. It's one of the songs to feature Tench, and was co-written by Stapleton and original SteelDrivers member Mike Henderson, a frequent collaborator and former bandmate of Stapleton's. The teaser video that Stapleton posted on Monday (Aug. 24), features the song "Watch You Burn," which he co-wrote with Campbell and which features the All Voices Choir.

In addition to Campbell and Tench, Stapleton enlisted his touring band — bassist JT Cure, drummer Derek Mixon and Stapleton's wife and backup singer Morgane Stapleton — along with legendary pedal steel player Paul Franklin for Starting Over. Producer Dave Cobb, with whom Stapleton has worked since the start of his artist career, is back in the producer's chair, and plays acoustic guitar on the album.

Starting Over follows Stapleton's 2015 debut, Traveller, and 2017's From A Room, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. The star was supposed to be on the road this summer, playing another round of All-American Road Show dates, but the novel coronavirus pandemic has forced him to postpone the trek until 2021.

Chris Stapleton's Starting Over Tracklisting:

1. “Starting Over”
2. “Devil Always Made Me Think Twice”
3. “Cold”
4. “When I’m With You”
5. “Arkansas”
6. “Joy of My Life”
7. “Hillbilly Blood”
8. “Maggie’s Song”
9. “Whiskey Sunrise”
10. “Worry B Gone”
11. “Old Friends”
12. “Watch You Burn”
13. “You Should Probably Leave”
14. “Nashville, TN"

First off, Chief already blogged this on Thursday when it dropped. And he nailed it. The Stapleton shows at Wrigley would have been once in a lifetime. Really really hope they get rescheduled for next summer.

If anybody deserves a reblog it's Chris Stapleton. Especially since more information regarding his upcoming album has emerged since Thursday.

I admittedly don't know shit when it comes to Country Music. I wish I did but I don't. But I'm attempting to learn as it's really started to grow on me the past 5 years. I wish I gave it a chance sooner.

But I do think I know what good music sounds like. And Chris Stapleton is good sounding music. Damn good music.

He dropped his new song, as Chief covered, on Thursday. "Starting Over"

And it's hard to believe this song was written and recorded well before Covid hit and the shitstorm we've endured since. It's incredibly optimistic. With some great lines like -

“Well, the road rolls out like a welcome mat,
to a better place than the one we’re at,”

“This might not be an easy time
there’s rivers to cross and hills to climb,
Some days we might fall apart
and some nights might feel cold and dark.”

His wife lends backup vocals which is pretty fuckin awesome. 

But what really got me tingling was news that Stapleton is releasing an official cover of John Fogerty's "Joy of My Life"

AND that he is teaming up with Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench from Tom Petty's Heartbreakers. (Tench played organ on "Starting Over")

So November 13th gives us something to mark our calendars and look forward to. 

p.s. - This is a GREAT piece on the man behind the huge resurgence/renaissance of country western music in Nashville. Incredible producer Jay Joyce. Great read.

p.p.s. - is there a more badass instrument than the slide guitar? Always played by badass motherfuckers, sounds so cool and looks even fuckin cooler.