Chords for Chris Stapleton Full Interview On The Bobby Bones Show

_ Yeah, everybody clap your hands, Chris Stableton is here.
Yay!
How are you buddy?
You good?
I'm good, how are you?
I have so many questions for you.
Well ask them.
Every time a new song will come out, I'll play it every time.
Every time it comes out I'll play it.
I know you do.
But it's like, I play it and then I say, Chris Stableton is like pizza of artists.
Because everybody loves pizza.
Like all your songs are like pizza.
I like all the songs.
I thought you were going to say I was fattening and gave you heartburn.
_ _ Not me personally.
You gave me heart warm.
Heart warm.
Yeah, yeah.
But it's like pizza because everybody loves all of it and some better than others.
There's not pizza you don't like.
_ I'm not an olive, I don't like olives.
Yeah, but you can peel the olives off.
Yeah, I can.
So there [Abm] are certain lyrics I would turn down to turn the song back up.
Yeah, yeah, okay.
But you put out all these songs and every time they come out I play it, I play it, I play it.
But help me with this because you did volume one and then volume two.
_ _ What's the difference?
Like why on one, why on the other?
How do they complement each other?
Like what's the difference in these records?
What's the difference in the records?
Yeah, like why [N] would you do two?
There are different songs on there.
There are different songs.
But are they supposed to complement each other?
Is there a different sound on them?
A lot of them were recorded in the same like session of time.
So we just had more songs than we had records.
But how do you pick which goes where?
Oh, you just go with your gut and hope that that was okay.
You're telling me that album of the year just went with you going with your gut?
Like you cut all these songs.
I think anything good is going with your gut.
You know, yeah.
Did you put the second record out after Sequel and the album of the year two years in a row?
No, no, no, no, no.
Because that, that is smart.
No, we _ _ cut, here's how it happened.
We cut the amount of songs that we cut.
What are you thinking when you go on stage?
What's in your mind?
I'm not thinking when I go on stage.
Yeah, you're on stage.
It's like you walk up, it's still dark.
The light's about to come on in like 30 seconds.
Like what's going through your head right then?
_ Um, _ _ you know, I hope my fly's up.
You know, those kind of things.
_ Mainly just, you know, I hope I can, you know, get through the show and play the best show that is available out of me in that moment.
You know, that's what's going through my mind.
But also, right before the lights come up, there's this brief moment of, it's almost quiet, you know.
_ And then the lights come on and it gets louder.
_ And it's, I don't know, it's like for a minute you get to flip over and be in some other alternate reality, you know, out there.
I feel like your shows, people sing every song to all the songs.
Every word to all the songs.
They sing a lot of the words to a lot of the songs, yeah.
_ Unless they just don't know them.
Yeah, especially with Traveler.
I pull new stuff out all the time.
And you do.
Sometimes it makes people mad though.
When what?
When I play like something that nobody's ever heard of.
They're like, why didn't you play one that I knew?
I'm just like, I'm sorry man.
I thought you would like this other new.
Do your people get irritated when you play new songs before they're supposed to come out?
No, I don't think so.
No, I mean every now and then there's a guy that somebody would like _ wish that you had played something that he knew other than the, like I didn't play somebody's song.
Like you can't, but the show's not long enough at this point.
Somebody's song I'm not playing.
So I try to mix it up a little bit.
So do you play the full Traveler album?
No, not every night.
We have before maybe a couple times we've played the whole record.
If the crowd really is rocking, I've walked back out on the encore and said, hey, I'm going to finish it out.
Whatever we hadn't played, we'll finish that in the encore.
But _ _ that's only happened a couple times.
Not that the crowds aren't, you know, crowds are great.
Tell me.
Sometimes they have curfews and they make you cut off.
The curfew.
Ten thousand dollars a minute fines and things like that.
You know, crazy stuff.
You're just like, I don't know man.
You ever hate the curfew?
Pay the money?
_ _ _ _ I've done it in places where _ not where it was ten thousand dollars a minute.
No.
That's like a 900 number I call.
That's expensive.
_ _ _ I've done it where, you know, we've had to pay hands over time and things like that, you know, just because we wanted to go a little deeper.
But you need to start earlier if you want to go too deep.
Tell me about this encore philosophy because everybody has their own.
_ Will you come out if they're not that loud? _
No.
There are times when you won't, you just haven't come out.
Absolutely.
_ I like that.
Yeah.
I like that.
Pretty much they earn it.
You know, my folks are really good about that most of the time.
So you're saying that if they're loud enough, you're coming out.
But if they're not, you're good.
Appreciate the show.
Thanks for the night.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, I've before that even had the opportunity.
I've got on that.
We have a little mic on stage where I can talk to the crew guys and I just say house music.
_ Which means turn the lights, house music up so people know it's time for them to go home.
Yeah.
_ And why is that?
Because you feel like the crowd maybe wasn't into it so much?
Yeah, it was if it was or, you know, sometimes it would be on me, you know, like I'm done.
Like you can hear me talking this morning.
I don't sound real great this morning, but _ it's been that.
Or, you know, some particular crowds, some crowds can't behave.
They'll throw stuff at you or you get too many fights.
Wait, they'll throw stuff at you?
What is it like a saloon in the 1800s?
Yeah, man.
We have one and I blame Marty Stewart for a lot of this.
We've had Marty Stewart out for the last leg and he just gets more riled up right before we come on.
And I'm not saying anything I don't say to him.
I'm joking, of course, but not in some ways.
But _ yeah, we had a show.
Was it a couple of weeks ago?
We had six fights that I could see.
We had six fights and I get four, _ at least four beers thrown at me on the stage.
Not because they were mad because they were partying.
And then a dude took his shirt off and threw it at me, which I've never had a dude take his shirt off and throw it at me.
But it happened.
Why would someone throw a beer at you and think that's a good thing?
Well, they're partially empty and they are by the time they get up to the…
But still they're throwing something.
My guitar tech was freaking out.
Alex was walking out there.
He's like, did any of this get wet?
I'm like, no, man, it's good.
We'll finish this and hope they don't kill us before we get out of here.
Will you stop a show if you see a fight get out of control?
I've done that.
Yeah, I've stopped a fight.
I haven't personally stopped a fight.
I've stopped it.
Something I will do is if something's really disruptive like that, we'll make sure the security guys shut it down.
And then I'll start the song over.
I'll play the whole song again.
Sometimes I'll finish the song while it's going on.
And then I've played – more than once [E] I've played a song twice because somebody was ruining everybody else's good time.
Wow.
_ Man, listen to this guy