Like other country artists, Christopher Alvin Stapleton first caused a furore behind the scenes. He wrote big hits for , and . It was high time to stand on your own two feet and that decision was not a moment too soon. Stapleton's debut album reached the highest place in the US album top-100 and won the Grammy for best country album of 2015. In itself remarkable, because Stapleton does not play
… the smooth Nashville version that is so popular in America. No, Chris Stapleton is a miner's son from Kentucky and seems more like the rough shell, rough kernel type. A guy who drinks his whiskey without ice and prefers to drive his pickup truck across the interstate. But as befits a good country star Stapleton also shows his soft side. For example, in the tear-jerking Up To No Good Livin ', in which the background vocals of his wife nicely counterbalance Chris' gnawing voice. (PdK)more
