Chris Stapleton ended up with SIX awards at this year’s ACM Awards as both artist, producer and songwriter. The truckload of awards include Album of the Year for Traveller (as both artist and producer), Song of the Year for “Nobody to Blame” (artist and songwriter), Male Vocalist of the Year and New Male Vocalist of the Year.
Audio / Chris Stapleton says he’s very grateful for his ACM Awards and recent success.
DownloadChris Stapleton (grateful for awards) OC: …grateful for the moment. :30
“Well I’ll take ’em home with me I guess once they send ’em Yeah I guess you have to at some point but it still is a very um… I’m thankful for it and it’s very nice and there’s a lot of great people doing a lot of great things making a lot of great music and working really hard and so when you get this kind of a thing going, I don’t think anybody deserves it. It’s a lot of luck and a lot of stars lining up so, I’m grateful for the moment.”
Audio / Backstage at this year’s ACM Awards, Chris Stapleton says he doesn’t feel a lot of pressure performing on the show.
DownloadChris Stapleton (ACM performance) OC: …playing music. :22
“Well you hope so and you’re also just trying not to mess up ’cause they’re throwing you out there and it’s you know throw and go and you hope you’re in tune and all those things. And they put you later in the night tonight and I’m like, ‘Well this is kind of next to last’ (laughs) so there’s a little bit of pressure there I guess but no, we’re just trying to play music and it’s always a comfortable spot for me once the first note hits just to be playing music.”
Audio / Backstage at this year’s ACM Awards, Chris Stapleton talks about the opening monologue where everyone took credit for “discovering” him.
DownloadChris Stapleton (opening monologue) OC: …but me. :21
“You know it’s a strange thing and it’s a wonderful gift and I’m grateful for t. It was a pretty funny monologue I didn’t know anything about it and as soon as it started I though this is gonna go on and on. I thought it might have carried on throughout the night and I was a little worried about that ’cause it could have gotten darker and darker but I don’t know…it didn’t so were good. Who gets credit? Everybody. Everybody but me.”
