Chris Stapleton
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Armchair Umbrella
4.6 • 69.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
Chris Stapleton (Traveller, Higher, Starting Over) is a multiple Grammy award winning singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Chris joins the Armchair Expert to discuss why he looks for silence, his unpreparedness for the academics at Vanderbilt University, and wanting to make a record his father would like after his passing. Chris and Dax talk about the formative folks that gave him a shot as a young, no-name songwriter, following the motto that ‘terms are better than money,’ and the potential blindspots that can exist when you’re very competent in one thing. Chris explains why there’s no such thing as a country music emergency, his preference for something being right over being done, and the safety he feels in the space of a song.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, welcome, welcome to armchair expert. |
| 0:03.3 | I'm Dan Shepard, and I'm joined by the miniaturist mouse in America. Hi, it's me. Ding, ding, ding. We've been working on this one for a while. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we've been begging and working and it happened. Hustling. Yeah, down in Nashville, too, right where it should happen. That's right. We were in the barn in Nashville, and we have Chris Stapleton today. |
| 0:25.7 | Chris Stapleton is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, and guitarist. |
| 0:29.2 | His albums are Traveler from a Room, starting over higher. |
| 0:33.5 | He's got his tour right now, the All-American Road Show, and you can get tickets for that at |
| 0:39.5 | www.crisdapleton.com slash tour. He also has his own show on Sirius, which you should check out. |
| 0:48.1 | Check it out. And lastly, you should drink some of his traveler whiskey, which he was reticent to promote, which he should because it's a magical whiskey. |
| 0:57.9 | It makes no, maybe he was reticent because you're sober, but no, he's just a guy with so much integrity he doesn't want to self-promote. |
| 1:05.3 | Oh, well, he definitely should have and he should have brought us some because I wanted it. |
| 1:09.3 | Yeah, it's from the the brewmasters. You don't call him brewmasters and whiskey. You brought us some because I wanted it. Yeah, it's from the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, man, the, the, the hell, whiskey, |
| 1:14.9 | Yeah, Whiskey Master. |
| 1:16.0 | I don't know what the hell. |
| 1:16.4 | Whiskey Masters from Pappies. |
| 1:19.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.7 | Big deal. |
| 1:20.7 | Big deal. |
| 1:21.6 | So drink his whiskey, listen to his music. |
| 1:24.0 | Go see him on tour and listen to him on serious. |
| 1:26.7 | Please enjoy Chris Stapleton. |
| 1:29.6 | He's an I'm chester. listen to his music, go see him on tour, and listen to him on Sirius. Please enjoy Chris Stapleton. |
| 1:47.5 | Is it lost? Yeah, where did I fucking put that down? |
| 1:49.7 | What's your looking for me? |
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