Back in May, Chris Stapleton released the year's best-selling country album to date in From A Room: Volume 1, the warmly received sequel to his award-bedecked 2015 debut, Traveller. Traveller had already made Stapleton a star, and Volume 1 quickly set the stage for another huge year. Produced with Dave Cobb , the record refined and showcased Stapleton's gift for making country music indistinguishable from folk, rock and, especially, soul.
It also, given its title, promised a sequel — and now a second Cobb-produced nine-song set, From A Room: Volume 2, will arrive Dec. 1. As you might expect, it's a natural companion to and extension of its predecessor, with seven original compositions book-ended by a cover of "Friendship" (popularized by Pops Staples ) and the album's immensely ingratiating first single, on which the singer and collaborator/wife Morgane Stapleton cook up a slow-and-easy country-soul take on Kevin Welch's 2001 song "Millionaire."
From A Room: Volume 2 tracklist:
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