it's just part of my personality. >> alfonsi: it is? chris stapleton: yeah, maybe. i-- i don't know. just-- my answer back was, "okay. i-- i'll do this. but-- i'm going to need to, you know-- do what i want to do." ♪ ♪ ♪ >> alfonsi: he went on to release his first single in 2013, but it went nowhere. >> chris stapleton: the same month that that single died my dad also passed away in that same month. it was-- it was a bad month, and i didn't, didn't feel great about it, and i was in a real bad spot. >> alfonsi: hoping to he morgane bought this vintage jeep chris had been eyeing online, even though it was 1,600 miles away in phoenix, arizona. ♪ ♪ ♪ they picked it up, and on the trip back to nashville, he wrote "traveller," the title track to his first solo album. the collection of 14 songs would be a turning point in his career. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> chris stapleton: we did that whole record in a week. >> alfonsi: you did "traveller" in one week? >> chris stapleton: yeah. >> alfonsi: you gotta be kidding me. >> chris stapleton: we were on a roll, and