From A Room: Volume 1 is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Chris Stapleton, released on May 5, 2017 through Mercury Nashville. Primarily a country, blues, and roots rock record, it was produced by Dave Cobb and Stapleton. Upon its release, the album received critical acclaim.
Chris Stapleton coming out from behind the scenes, stepping into the solo spotlight, and putting out this music has helped saved country music from the pop-infested honky-tonk shit that's out there. Travelers kicked the door in on the country music party and stole the stage, and now with From the A Room Volume 1 and 2, Stapleton and his wife are rocking the whole structure down. His lyrical style is unmatchable and his musical ability impressive. This music has heart and soul and wisdom and emotion running through its chords, and it is absolutely beautiful.
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- Chris Stapleton From A Room: Volume 1. Release Date: May 5, 2017; Label: Mercury Nashville. Broken Halos; Last Thing I Needed; Second One To.
Contents. Background Stapleton released in May 2017, and confirmed the release of Volume 2 for later that year. Like its predecessor, the album takes its name from Nashville's RCA Studio A, where the recording sessions took place. The album tracks 'Tryin' to Untangle My Mind', 'Hard Livin' and 'Midnight Train to Memphis' have been featured in his prior to the release. The latter song was previously recorded by his former band.
The album opens with a cover of 's 'Millionaire', and closes with a cover of and Lester Snell's 'Friendship,' previously recorded. The tracks ', 'Scarecrow in the Garden' and 'Tryin' to Untangle My Mind' were released as a promotional singles with the album preorder on October 20, November 4 and 17, respectively. Music and themes. 'We recorded that song while in , but I've always continued to play that song even when I'm not in that band, so it got time to be recorded again like, 'Listen, I still play this song every night. We should record it.'
One's got a banjo on it, and the other one's got a little drums underneath it. It's still the same song at its core, it's just a song I've always loved.' —Stapleton in an interview with on re-recording 'Midnight Train to Memphis' for the album. A music journalist stated traditional country and Southern soul 'play into the record equally.' For a reviewer the album comprises country, folk, blues, Southern rock and soul. The opening track ' is a mid-tempo soul-influenced ballad driven by acoustic guitar, lyrically about 'spare love' and appreciating relationship closeness over material wealth, with his wife and music collaborator Morgane on background vocals.
The track 'Hard Livin' comprises phase-shifted guitar riff, with a Rolling Stone writer comparing it to 's '. Featuring verses, the ballad 'Scarecrow in the Garden' tells the story of an heir of a farm, who laments bad times not allowing him to enjoy the same prosperity of his ancestors, an immigrant family from.
The narrator in the and traditional country song 'Tryin' to Untangle My Mind' confesses his past habits of drinking whiskey, dating women and spending all his little money. 'Nobody's Lonely Tonight' is a slow soul ballad about looking for some comfort after giving up on love. 'A Simple Song' was written with Darrell Hayes, Stapleton's father-in-law, where the narrator is heartened by his family's presence while dealing with quotidian struggle. Lyrically, 'Midnight Train to Memphis' is about a person that gets to listen to the train's rumbling sound every day of his time in prison. Delivered alone, 'Drunkard's Prayer' finds the singer playing the part of a broken, lonely man who wants to change and seeks for forgiveness.
The cover of the song 'Friendship' is a track, that differs from the original for its R&B influences, 'deeper' groves and guitar. Critical reception Professional ratings Aggregate scores Source Rating 80/100 Review scores Source Rating A− 7.3/10 8/10 7/10 From A Room: Volume 2 received generally positive reviews from music critics. At, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an score of 80 out of 100, which indicates 'generally favorable reviews' based on nine reviews.
Writing for, Jewly Hight noted Stapleton 'chose several songs that dwell on, even savor, meaningful attachments', listing as examples 'Millionaire', 'A Simple Song', 'Friendship' and 'Scarecrow in the Garden'. Compared to Volume 1, Hight opined that its emotional center 'lies elsewhere.' She concluded saying 'folding these songs into his repertoire lends greater emotional weight to his entire body of work. Wise and sensitive storyteller that he is, he knows that deprivation and loss are felt the most deeply when it's clear what's at stake.' Robert Crawford of Rolling Stone described it as 'lean and live-sounding' while 'Stapleton's voice remains as titanic ever, but on these nine tracks, he packs an equally sized punch as both picker and bandleader.' Also from the music magazine, Will Hermes compared it to Volume 1 and opined, 'the band's the same but leaner, stripped to guitars, bass, drums and Stapleton's mighty voice, with harmonies by his wife, Morgane, smartly moved up in the mix.
Again, the songs feel like unearthed classics.' Reviewers from opined 'Stapleton's gravelly vocals sell his own openly emotive songs like no one else could,' adding that he 'runs the gamut of emotions and genres, traveling from the hard-rocking rumination on the difficulties of 'Hard Livin' to the minimalist blues of 'Nobody's Lonely Tonight.' Writing for, Chris Willman called it the second-best country album of the year, only behind Stapleton's own Volume 1. Terence Cawley in said the songs were 'expertly crafted.'
Mike Davies in called 'Scarecrow In The Garden' the best song in the album, followed by 'Drunkard’s Prayer'. From noted Volume 2 'leavens its heavier moments with songs that celebrate the simple joys of love and marriage and family, without lapsing into sentimentality.'
For Kentucky.com, Walter Tunis summarized his review writing 'Stapleton's vivid, unvarnished musical portraits are already striking in ways that distinguish him from pretty much any of his country contemporaries.' Stephen Thomas Erlewine of said it is 'a collection of moments, just like Vol. 1, but that's the charm of Vol.
2,' and opined that without 'crafting a major statement' the songs 'work on their own terms.' Accolades Publication List Rank Ref. The 25 Best Albums of 2017.Along with From A Room: Volume 1 Commercial performance From A Room: Volume 2 debuted at number two on the US with 125,000, of which 116,000 were in pure album sales.
With Volume 1, which also opened at number 2, Stapleton is the first country act to score two top-two charting albums in a calendar year on the Billboard 200 since in 2013. On the charts dated February 10, 2018, From A Room: Volume 1, and Volume 2 held the top-three spots on Top Country Albums, making Stapleton the third artist ever to do so, the others being in 1992 and in 1974. It was certified in the US in April 2018.
And has sold 451,800 copies domestically as of November 2018. Awards Year Award Category Result Ref. 2018 Nominated Nashville Music Awards Americana Awards Won 2019 Pending Track listing Track listing adapted from the.
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