Chris Stapleton TravellerLike many country troubadours, Chris Stapleton cut his teeth as a songwriter in Nashville, churning out tunes that wound up hits in the hands of others. Kenny Chesney brought "Never Wanted Anything More" to number one and Darius Rucker had a hit with "Come Back Song," but those associations suggest Stapleton would toe a mainstream line when he recorded his 2015 debut, Traveller. This new release, however, suggests something rougher and rowdier an Eric

One by One All Day 3

and at her most explicit

sounds more like TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe

even the rarities collection INCESTICIDE ("Sliver") and the pre-fame album BLEACH ("About A Girl") are represented

” A few weeks later the song would receive a Grammy nomination for Record of the Year

Maimouna Youssef

his fortunes fell

Tracey Thorn

and some switch between a handful of different time signatures over the course of a few minutes

initiates the listener into the song's strange space

not unlike fellow composers Jan Jelinek or Andrew Pekler

assisted by some serious singing from Black Thought and an inspiring chorus from Dice Raw