After his amazing breakout year in 2015, Chris Stapleton will go into this year’s CMA Awards to win possibly five awards (six as artist and producer for Single of the Year for “Nobody to Blame”). In addition to Single, he is also up for Entertainer, Male Vocalist, Music Video of the Year for “Fire Away” and Musical Event of the Year with his wife Morgane Stapleton (her first nomination) for “You Are My Sunshine.”
The 50th Annual CMA Awards will be broadcast live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena November 2nd at 8pm ET on ABC.
Audio / Backstage at last year's CMA Awards, Chris Stapleton told the press he felt embraced by the Nashville music community after picking up trophies in three categories.
DownloadChris Stapleton (feeling of being embraced) OC: …a real one, you know? :17
“It’s surreal. Very unbelievable. I don’t have enough kind of adjectives to get there, but it’s a wonderful feeling. It’s a lot of love. I feel a lot of love. I feel very loved. It’s a short answer, but it’s a real one, you know.”
Audio / Chris Stapleton talks about coming up with the concept of the music video for “Fire Away.”
DownloadChris Stapleton (Fire Away video) OC: …grew from there. :25
“The song is kinda about loving somebody unconditionally through not so easy times. The concept of the video kind of came to me as that would be the hardest possible space in which to love somebody. I’ve been a huge fan of Ben’s [Foster] for a long time and so we tried to track him down and he was kind enough to take the phone call. And then it kind of grew from there.”
