CHRIS STAPLETON (+Timberlake) LP Plat Award TENNSESSEE WHISKEY/TRAVELLER
From the Estate of Country Music’s premier gold and platinum awards maker, Ken Kittinger. Ken was my father and he made awards for 50 years until his death at 91. You can Google Ken at: Ken Kittinger Gold Records for more info.This – Chris Stapleton’s very first album – Traveller, was released when Chris was 37 and it’s one of the highly revered DEBUT albums in country music history. But while Traveller became a hit single, it was the dynamic duo of Chris and Justin Timberlake “crushing” one of the album’s tracks, Tennessee Whiskey on 2015’s CMA Awards that skyrocketed the album and the new single into the stratosphere. Rolling Stone Magazine said that the TV duet is the greatest country duet ever seen on television.Many do not know that Chris was actually a Kentucky transplant to Nashville for 15 years before his debut album – Traveller – was released. My father attended many a meeting with the Tennessee Songwriters with Chris over the years as he penned songs for