Chris Stapleton Celebrates 10 Years of ‘Traveller’
The country superstar’s acclaimed debut album will receive a special edition vinyl release later this summer.
Chris Stapleton is celebrating the 10 year anniversary of his debut album Traveller with a special edition vinyl. The vinyl variants are available for pre-order now and will be released later this summer.
Today, SiriusXM’s Chris Stapleton Radio (ch. 63) will mark the anniversary with stories about the making of the groundbreaking album and songs from the record played throughout the day.
Traveller was recorded at Nashville’s historic RCA Studio A with producer Dave Cobb. Stapleton was 37 when Traveller came out. The Kentucky-born musician was already well-known within Nashville music circles and he had been penning hits for mainstream country artists for the previous 15 years, including Thomas Rhett’s “Crash And Burn” and George Strait’s “You Don’t Know What You’re Missing.”
Traveller won Best Country Album at the 58th Grammy Awards, Album of the Year at both the CMAs and ACMs and went on to become the best-selling country album of the 2010’s. The title track also won a Grammy for Best Country Solo Performance. At the 2015 CMAs, Stapleton became the first artist to ever win Album of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year and New Artist of the Year in the same year. Soon after, Traveller became the first album in history to re-enter the Billboard 200 all-genre album chart at #1, where it stayed for two straight weeks. Additionally, the album has spent over 500 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart—the first country album to do so.
Stapleton has gone on to release four more studio albums including his most recent, 2023’s Higher. In 2024, he performed two songs from the record, “Mountains of My Mind” and the multi-Grammy winning “White Horse,” during his third appearance on Saturday Night Live. That same year, he unveiled Traveller Whiskey, a first-of-its-kind collaboration created in partnership with Buffalo Trace Distillery’s Master Distiller Harlen Wheatley, which went on to become last year’s Most Awarded Super Premium Whiskey.
Stapleton will continue his “All-American Road Show” tour through this summer including back-to-back nights at New York’s Madison Square Garden, Denver’s Ball Arena, Tinley Park’s Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre, Phoenix’s Desert Diamond Arena and Grand Rapids’ Van Andel Arena among others as well as a series of select stadium shows with George Strait.
