Chris Stapleton may have titled his debut album Traveller, but the restless country singer can’t abide driving in Nashville. After that 2015 LP exploded, going double platinum and becoming the top-selling country album of 2016, he hightailed it out of the increasingly congested city for the freedom of a newly purchased 311-acre ranch in the country.

“It used to take me 15 minutes to get down to Music Row and I was seven miles away. Then it was taking me almost an hour,” says Stapleton. “That was back when I wrote songs every day.”

Stapleton, 39, revisits those old song notebooks on his new album From A Room: Volume 1.

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