Chris Stapleton doesn’t say a lot. And his songs, while personal, often don’t belie his most dark, tortured feelings. Which is what makes “Watch You Burn” so stunning. Over four fiery minutes, the country songwriter allows himself to get pissed off, furious even, as he recounts the 2017 mass shooting …
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Sheryl Crow returned to The Tonight Show to perform “Tell Me When It’s Over” alongside Chris Stapleton. The track appears on Crow’s recently released album Threads. The performance, which marked the first time Crow and Stapleton played their collaboration live together, came nearly two weeks after Crow covered Bob Dylan …
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The annual Forecastle Festival, launched in 2002, has announced its 2018 lineup, with Chris Stapleton, Arcade Fire and Modest Mouse headlining the three-day event in Louisville, Kentucky. Held on the banks of the Ohio River, Forecastle is set for July 13th through 15th. As in years past, the lineup is …
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U2 notched their eighth Number One album as the band’s Songs of Experience debuted atop the Billboard 200. Bono and company’s 14th studio album and follow-up to 2014’s Songs of Innocence sold 186,000 total copies in its first week of release, the best sales for a rock release since Metallica’s …
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“I was going to be completely elated if we sold 50,000 records and I got to make another record,” Chris Stapleton admits during the newest episode of Walking the Floor, talking to Chris Shiflett about his own expectations for 2015’s Traveller. One of the longer podcasts in Walking the Floor‘s …
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