![]() He notably performed it as a duet with Justin Timberlake at the 2015 CMA Awards. Stapleton released his version of “Tennesee Whiskey” back in 2015 as part of his debut solo album, Traveller. Between 1979 ad 1983, Dillon charted eight times, including earning one Top 30 hit, “I’m into the Bottle (To Get You out of My Mind).” It was these early songwriting efforts that earned him a record deal with Capitol Records. He found success as a recording artist himself. After graduating from high school, Dillon hitchhiked to Nashville with hopes of starting a music career. Growing up in Lake City, Tennessee, he began playing guitar at the age of seven. In addition to “Tennesee Whiskey,” Dillon has many cuts with George Strait, including, “The Chair,” “Nobody in His Right Mind Would’ve Left Her,” “It Ain’t Cool to Be Crazy About You,” “Ocean Front Property,” “Famous Last Words of a Fool,” “I’ve Come to Expect It From You,” “If I Know Me,” “Easy Come, Easy Go,” “Lead On,” “I Believe” and more.ĭillon got his start in music early on in life. I had written with Stapleton and I knew what kind of throat he had, and the first time I heard him sing it, I thought, ‘Man, that’s got some big ol’ legs on it.'” ![]() He continued, “I was blown away when I heard Stapleton’s version. “David Allan Coe cut it, and Brad Paisley cut it, and then a couple of years ago Chris Stapleton was messing around with it during rehearsals and started playing it the way he plays it, and it had a whole new life of its own.” I pitched it to Jones and he had a number with it,” Dillon said. “I pitched it first to Strait, but he turned it down. The song has been recorded by the likes of George Jones, Brad Paisley, and of course, Stapleton. I had the idea for the song and we sat at her house at 4 o’clock in the morning and wrote that song. “It was 4 o’clock in the morning and I had been drinking all night and I met a young lady by the name of Linda Hargrove and we decided to go home together-but not for what everybody thought. I heard this song for the first time and thought about Justin sleeping peacefully in the other room, and how we once felt the same irresistible tug, and how the news turned out to be Good.“I wrote the song 35 years ago,” Dillon told Nash Country Daily. ![]() They’re singing about a connection that’s illicit or forbidden or maybe just Bad News, and undeniable all the same. They must have so much fun performing this together, inhabiting a song with this kind of erotic spark. Stapleton sings “You Should Probably Leave” alongside Morgane Stapleton, his frequent collaborator and wife. Put another way, I think the song has great bones. What would this song sound like in his hands, the Callahan who wrote “ Pigeons ” and “ Confederate Jasmine ” and “ Small Plane ” and hell, “ Dress Sexy at My Funeral ?” (My friends around here know I never shut up about “Dress Sexy at My Funeral.”) He can’t sing like Stapleton but I bet he makes “You Should Probably Leave” strange and funny and detail-oriented, the mention of early-morning sun-kissed skin becoming the keystone. ”Īnd while there isn’t much of a sonic resemblance, I can’t stop thinking about Bill Callahan and his miniature domestic scenes. There’s a fair bit of John Mayer in that smoldering, bluesy guitar melody, though his version of this song would probably come with a wink and an ostentatious solo something about the simmering chug and the male-female vocal interplay brought me back to “ Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around. It also sounds deeply familiar, like a song you’ve absolutely heard before but can’t quite place. Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Tennessee Whiskey Chris Stapleton Traveller 2015 Mercury Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. It’s glowing with this confident, smoky sensuality it’s willing to leave plenty to your imagination because we’re all adults here, and we’ve all felt that dangerous pull in the pit of our stomach. ![]() I’m not an ardent Stapleton fan - I’d recognize “ Tennessee Whiskey ” around a campfire and I like “ Either Way ” - but I can appreciate why diehards have kept tabs on this song for years, waiting for its official release. “You Should Probably Leave” is a gem tucked away near the end of Chris Stapleton’s new album Starting Over. ![]()
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