![]() ![]() He’s taken home eight Grammy wins, as well as winning the CMA’s male vocalist of the year six times and the album of the year honor three times. 1 hits on Hot Country Songs, with “Starting Over” and “You Should Probably Leave.” 1 on Top Country Albums, as did his 2020 album Starting Over. “Tennessee Whiskey” helped propel Stapleton’s debut solo album Traveller to the peak of the Billboard 200 albums chart for two weeks, as well as a staggering 29 weeks at the pinnacle of Billboard‘s Top Country Albums. He’s also become an in-demand collaborator, for artists including Adele, Pink, Carly Pearce and Taylor Swift, known as a vocalist capable of extracting every ounce of emotion from a song.Ģ015 marked a breakthrough moment for Chris Stapleton’s solo career, when he teamed with Justin Timberlake for a collaborative performance at that year’s CMA Awards - performing a mashup of Stapleton’s “Tennessee Whiskey” with Timberlake’s “Drink You Away.” “Tennessee Whiskey,” a song previously recorded by both David Allan Coe and George Jones, would become a modern-day classic, thanks to Stapleton’s ruggedly soulful rendering. The song climaxes in a solo fight between guitars and fiddles before the vocals rip through a high-speed ode to whiskey: “ Kentucky, Tennessee, you better find whiskey / Not leaving, that’s a fact / Small batch, sour mash / Red nose, red face, gonna wreck the whole place.” You might not be sad at the end of this song, but you’ll probably be out of breath.Over the past 15 years, Chris Stapleton has ascended from his days as the mighty-voiced frontman and guitarist-writer for groups including the bluesy-bluegrass outfit The SteelDrivers and hard-charging rock group The Jompson Brothers to one of country music’s most formidable solo artists, having been nominated for the Country Music Association’s entertainer of the year trophy six times. Sure, if you read the lyrics, it’s still a song about turning to whiskey after a heartbreak, but the mood is definitely more upbeat. That’s why the dizzyingly fast, quick-witted “Whiskey’s Gone” from the Zac Brown Band is such a nice break. #4 “Whiskey’s Gone” – Zac Brown Band So many whiskey songs are downers: They’re about heartbreak, drowning your sorrows in a glass or (usually) both. ![]() #5 Jack Daniels – Miranda Lambert “ Daddy always said he was wrong for me / And in the end, he’d only bring me misery,” Lambert sings against guitar strums in the opening lines of “Jack Daniels.” She takes another verse of teasing the real subject of her song: He was “ born and raised in Lynchburg, Tennessee,” and she says that “w hen I’m with him, I get meaner.” The song builds and builds in pace and volume until Lambert admits what she’s really talking about when she sings “ I fell in love with Jack Daniel’s again.” It’s a deeply playful song, and hard to listen to only once. ![]() To see a list of The World’s Best Drinking Songs (see which George Jones Hit tops the list) see our blog HERE For a list of the Bartender’s Best Bottles of Bourbon click our Blog HERE For a list of Most Drinkable Ryes see our Blog HERE Here is The Boot’s List: Top 10 Country Songs About Whiskey
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