FROM A ROOM VOL 1 | CHRIS STAPLETON

8.2.17 Carrie Underwood is NOT country. And "real country" is not gone and forgotten. Just listen to this here record. Go on, git!

Stapleton nails it in every way here with this straight forward authentic comfort piece. Armed with a rich dust-filled soulful voice resembling the 1970s Outlaws, and Kenny Rogers, Stapleton delivers music that isn't about being award show or singing competition show glitzy shite that, unfortunately, I believe a lot of new pop country music is. 

The great Steve Earle brought my to attention to Chris Stapleton when he said in a Guardian interview, "The best stuff coming out of Nashville is all by women except for Chris Stapleton," "The guys just wanna sing about getting fucked up. They're just doing hip hop for people who are afraid of black people". 

From A Room Volume 1 is but a mule's tail hair better than Volume 2 with the same album cover with reversed colors.

I really enjoyed the beautiful vocal accompaniment by Chris's wife, singer Morgane Hayes-Stapleton.