his album has been called equal parts otis redding and waylon jennings.y" in our studio. ♪ >> ♪ you don't feel it all i used to stay up all night and wonder what went wrong it has been hard to do that for so long we can just go on like this say the word, we will call it baby, you can go you can stay -- but iove you away wanna love you either way we can't just go on like this say the word, we'll call it quits baby, you can go or you can stay i wanna love you either way ♪ charlie: i am pleased to have chris stapleton at the table for the first time. welcome. country's reigning outlaw. what do you think they mean when they say country's reigning outlaw? chris: i am not much of an outlaw. what about the music? chris: i certainly always have a tip of the hat and have in my mind waylon and willie and merle haggard and that era of music is a lot of my favorite things. there were a lot of things musically they were doing right. not that there is a right and wrong. charlie: what were they doing? chris: being themselves and doing what feels good to them versus tryi

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