#1049 - Chris Stapleton

Joe Rogan (0:00)

Alrighty.

You. Boom, and we're live. What's up, man?

Chris Stapleton (0:07)

How's it going?

Joe Rogan (0:08)

Pleasure to meet you, finally.

Chris Stapleton (0:09)

Pleasure to meet you, yeah, man.

Joe Rogan (0:10)

I'm a fucking huge fan of yours.

Chris Stapleton (0:11)

Well, thank you very much.

Joe Rogan (0:12)

I listened to your, the last album, I've listened to that fucking thing hundreds of times. I listen to it all the time when I'm headed to the comics tour.

Puts me in a good mood.

Chris Stapleton (0:20)

Well, that's good, that's what music's supposed to do.

Joe Rogan (0:23)

I'm just stunned by the fact that for the longest time, you were basically doing the songwriting thing.

You were doing a lot of that. You were making your own music, but you were known more as a songwriter.

Chris Stapleton (0:35)

Yeah, well, you walk through the doors that are open.

Joe Rogan (0:37)

Yeah.

Chris Stapleton (0:39)

So you do the things that come up, and somewhere in the middle of all that, you find out what your thing is.

Joe Rogan (0:44)

But goddamn, your voice is so good, man. Thank you.

I mean, I don't want to fanboy out on you, but it's just such a classic male voice, singing those kind of songs. It's like, I'm glad someone's still doing it right.

Chris Stapleton (1:01)

Oh, well, I don't know.

Thank you. I'll also say thank you. I don't want to say I'm doing it right and somebody else is doing it wrong.

Joe Rogan (1:07)

Well, for me, it's not.

Chris Stapleton (1:08)

I'm doing what I do.

Joe Rogan (1:09)

Well, what you do, I like. So I'm just happy there's someone out there doing what you're doing. Thank you.

And what is going on with you right now? You got a new album that's about to come out.

Chris Stapleton (1:18)

We got a new album that's, yeah, it came out December 1st, and yeah, we're proud of it and hope people like it.

Joe Rogan (1:25)

Cause it's on iTunes and all that jazz?

Chris Stapleton (1:27)

It's on iTunes, yeah, you can get it everywhere. The music is available, as far as I know. That's what they tell me.

Joe Rogan (1:32)

How have the doors opened up for you now? Does everything feel like, ugh?

Chris Stapleton (1:36)

Yeah, we're sitting here talking, aren't we?

Joe Rogan (1:37)

Everything's good.

Chris Stapleton (1:40)

No, yeah, I mean, beyond good, good would be the understatement of the century for, you know, just so many things that sound like fake, you know, like fake life.

Joe Rogan (1:52)

Yeah.

Chris Stapleton (1:53)

You know, things that happen, phone calls you get, people you meet, people you get to talk to.

Joe Rogan (1:57)

Like what?

Chris Stapleton (1:59)

Shoot, man, just any of it, just, you know, getting to go play. This past year, we played three shows with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

Joe Rogan (2:07)

You know, that must have been amazing.

Chris Stapleton (2:09)

It was amazing. We played Wrigley Field with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

Joe Rogan (2:12)

Holy shit.

Wrigley Field. God, how many people was that?

Chris Stapleton (2:18)

I don't know. It was a bunch, but it felt just as cool as it sounds like it should.

Joe Rogan (2:25)

Man, Wrigley Field with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. It doesn't get any cooler than that.

Chris Stapleton (2:31)

Not to me, it doesn't. But maybe there's something else.

Joe Rogan (2:35)

So how long has success been happening? Like two years now?

Chris Stapleton (2:42)

To the degree that it's happening right now, probably since 2015, a couple years of Good Strong. We're going on three of playing shows to more people than we knew ever came to live shows. So yeah, it's been a strange life altering thing.

Joe Rogan (3:02)

When you hear, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Chris Stapleton, and what does that like? Does it freak you out?

Chris Stapleton (3:08)

Well, we don't usually do money announcements like that. We just kind of walk out there and play.

Joe Rogan (3:12)

That's the move.

Chris Stapleton (3:13)

Yeah, we don't hype them up too much. We just kind of walk out there and fire up.

Joe Rogan (3:19)

That might be the way to do it.

Chris Stapleton (3:21)

Well, I mean, everybody has their own thing, but I don't have like a hype guy doing that.

Joe Rogan (3:25)

You need like the Kiss guy. The hottest band in the world. I remember that when I was a kid. I went to see Kiss live a bunch of times. You'd get so fucking pumped up at the beginning because he would go, the hottest band in the world.