Chris Stapleton
Chris Stapleton
Christopher Alvin "Chris" Stapletonis an American country and bluegrass musician and songwriter. He is an established songwriter with six number-one songs including the five-week number-one "Never Wanted Nothing More" recorded by Kenny Chesney, "Love's Gonna Make It Alright" recorded by George Strait, and "Come Back Song" recorded by Darius Rucker. As a songwriter, over 150 of Stapleton's songs have appeared on albums by such artists as Adele, Luke Bryan, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley and Dierks Bentley. He has co-written with...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSongwriter
Date of Birth15 April 1978
CountryUnited States of America
It's such a strange marriage, a song and someone that sings it. When that works, it really works, and when it doesn't, it doesn't.
I've always been in touring bands in some capacity.
I like to put something on and want to listen to it again once I get done listening to it, not feel like I need an ear break.
I always just try to write the best songs that I can at any given time, and sometimes those songs are for me, and sometimes they're for other people. And that's to be evaluated after the fact.
The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.
I write the songs and hand it over to the world and see what happens. But the things that I've written for people that have been hits, I don't know that I would have directed them in the right path, but they definitely wound up on the right path.
At the end of the day, I just have to do what I do and let it be what it's gonna be.
You always hope for the best when you put something out and try to make the best music you can make, but you can't control what happens after that.
I just try to make the best music that I can. People are going to label it whatever they're going to label it.
I like songs that make me feel tough. Like 'Back in Black.' You want to hear it again and get in a fight.
I'm not a hustler. I don't pitch songs. I don't ask people to write with me. It's not what I do.