![]() ![]() Loving someone, accepting someone’s love, that’s it. If you’ve ever found yourself wondering if the human experience might be about more than just nurturing and then sustaining an intense romantic connection with another person, Stapleton’s here to say that he is sorry, he really is, but that’s what matters. Thematically, the album is concerned almost exclusively with affairs of the heart. ![]() The feel on “Higher,” his fifth solo album, is less Lothario and more lonesome cowboy, brooding under the stars. He has the sort of muscular, room-shaking voice that carries emotion well, but it is nevertheless gritty enough to avoid sentimentality. Stapleton, who is forty-five, is an understated, bluesy guitarist. Or, as he puts it in another new song, “When there’s a day I can live without you, baby, it’ll be the day I die.” When you’re in the business of singing burly, sorrowful tunes about the capriciousness of relationships, sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. The fact that a broken heart can mend is insulting to the grandeur and the spectacle of love. ![]() “What am I gonna drink / When I don’t have to think / About what I’m gonna do without you?” Stapleton worries. The song, which was written with Miranda Lambert, frets over what happens when the trembling and the yearning and the fear finally give way to more mundane emotions-ambivalence or, worse, acceptance. “What am I gonna do when I get over you?” the singer Chris Stapleton asks on “What Am I Gonna Do,” the opening track of his new album, “Higher.” Stapleton, like every big-voiced country singer worth his Stetson, recognizes that few feelings are richer-more generative, more vivid, more flush-than fresh heartache. ![]()
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