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Nov 2020
45m 27s

Chris Stapleton

WILLIE GEIST, SUNDAY TODAY
About this episode
20 years ago,  Chris Stapleton left his small hometown in Kentucky and moved to Nashville to chase his dream of being a songwriter. Five years ago, the dream got bigger when he released his own album, won a pair of Grammy Awards, and established himself as one of the most distinctive voices in all of music. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets ... Show More
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