Chris Stapleton

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 8 November 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

20 years ago, Chris Stapleton left his small hometown in Kentucky and moved to Nashville to chase his dream of being a songwriter. Five years ago, the dream got bigger when he released his own album, won a pair of Grammy Awards, and established himself as one of the most distinctive voices in all of music. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together virtually with the country star to talk about that journey and his latest album, Starting Over.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:06.4	My thanks is always for clicking, listening along.
0:10.2	Very excited about today's conversation for you with one of the most talented and successful
0:14.7	artists in all of music his name is Chris Stapleton.
0:18.9	If you don't know Chris, he arrived in Nashville from his home state of Kentucky in 2001,
0:24.2	quickly became one of the most sought after songwriters in town, writing songs for the
0:29.3	biggest artist in Nashville, making a handsome living, doing really well still playing
0:33.8	in his own band.
0:34.8	And then in 2015, he releases his debut album Traveler, which has become an iconic album.
0:42.6	Goes multi platinum, wins him a bunch of awards, including Grammys.
0:46.6	2017, he released two more albums and now he's out with his fourth.
0:51.4	It's called Starting Over.
0:53.0	It's really good.
0:54.0	I got a chance to listen to it.
0:55.7	Be available for download soon if it's not already.
0:58.7	Stapleton and I got together a few years ago for a Sunday Sit Down on my show Sunday
1:03.4	today at his farm outside of Nashville.
1:08.2	His family has grown quite a bit since then.
1:10.2	He and his wife Morgan, a talented singer in her own right in the band with Chris plays
1:15.3	the tambourine.
1:16.3	You'll hear from her in our conversation in just a little while.
1:19.5	They now have five children and they've been locked down in quarantine.
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