Project drops this fall

Chris Stapleton’s highly anticipated new album, Higher, will be released on CD and 2 LP on November 10th on Mercury Nashville. In advance of the release, the album’s first single, “White Horse,” written by Stapleton and Dan Wilson, is available now.

Produced by Dave Cobb, Morgane Stapleton, and Stapleton, Higher was recorded at Nashville’s RCA Studio A. Across its 14 songs, Stapleton showcases his supernatural voice and musical versatility with songs that span genres and defy easy categorization. Alongside Stapleton on vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and slide electric guitar, the album features Cobb on acoustic and electric guitar, J.T. Cure on bass, Paul Franklin on pedal steel, Derek Mixon on drums, Morgane on background vocals, synthesizer, and tambourine, and Lee Pardini on organ and piano.

Known for his electric live performances, the 8x Grammy, 15x CMA and 15x ACM Award-winner is currently in the midst of his extensive All-American Road Show Tour and joins George Strait for select stadium shows this summer including two shows next weekend at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium.

One of the country’s most respected and beloved musicians, in the past year Stapleton was named Entertainer of the Year at the 58th ACM Awards — resulting in a prestigious ACM Triple Crown Award — and Male Vocalist of the Year at the 2022 CMA Awards — his sixth time earning the award, setting the record for most wins ever in the category. Additionally, in February, he performed the National Anthem at Super Bowl LVII and has collaborated in recent years with Adele, Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran, Justin Timberlake, P!nk, Sheryl Crow, Santana, and many more.

Stapleton’s fifth album follows 2020’s acclaimed Starting Over, which went on to win three awards at the 67th Annual Grammys, including Best Country Album, Best Country Solo Performance (“You Should Probably Leave”) and Best Country Song (“Cold”), in addition to earning Album of the Year honors at both the CMA and ACM Awards. Prior to Starting Over, Stapleton released a pair of Platinum-certified releases in 2017 — From A Room: Volume 1 and From A Room: Volume 2 — as well as his 5x Platinum breakthrough solo debut album in 2015, Traveller.

  1. What Am I Gonna Do
  2. South Dakota
  3. Trust
  4. It Takes A Woman
  5. The Fire
  6. Think I’m In Love With You
  7. Loving You On My Mind
  8. White Horse
  9. Higher
  10. The Bottom
  11. The Day I Die
  12. Crosswind
  13. Weight Of Your World
  14. Mountains On My Mind