11/6/2022 0 Comments Remind me of you van morrison![]() Stapleton could easily be seen covering Van Morrison’s “Reminds Me of You” or Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine,” two other recordings with genetic similarity to “Tennessee Whiskey.” But the Genome also connects “Tennessee Whiskey” to a range of different artists such as Ray LaMontagne, Norah Jones, Bill Withers and Otis Redding. Keith Urban’s soulful “Blue Ain’t Your Color” is an obvious relative, too. Stapleton’s closest country kin might be Eric Church, an established star with some of Stapleton’s outsider edge - Stapleton’s song “Millionaire” is one of the top song the Eric Church station. Volume 2 again reaches into the R&B genre with a cover of “Friendship,” co-written by Stax Records artist Homer Banks and Stax session musician Lester Snell. Founded by country musician/executive Chet Atkins along with brothers Owen and Harold Bradley, Studio A has hosted musicians that traverse music’s taxonomy: country musicians like Dolly Parton and Willie Nelson crooner Perry Como and blues legend B.B. From A Room: Volume 1 and Volume 2 contain music recorded at famed RCA Studio A in Nashville. Known as ground zero for the country music industry, Nashville, like Stapleton, has surprising roots and influences. Human curators play a role, too, using their insights to construct more even connections. Pandora’s recommendation engine connect jazz musician Kamasi Washington to music of the past, such as drummer Idris Muhammad, and new artists like trumpeter Jukka Eskola. ![]() The same algorithms that link “Tennessee Whiskey” and “I’d Rather Go Blind” connect Smokepurpp-currently #8 on Next Big Sound’s Trendsetters chart-to Ski Mask the Slump God and Ugly God. Pandora’s ability to find connections between songs works for any artist and any track. REMIND ME OF YOU VAN MORRISON CODEMusic discovery begins at the code level. Nearly as similar is James cover of “Misty Blue” - country singers Wilma Burgess and Eddy Arnold each recorded hit versions the ‘60s - that appeared on her final album, 2011’s The Dreamer. So, if you like “Tennessee Whiskey,” you’re probably going to like “I’d Rather Go Blind,” and vice versa. The two are incredibly similar (as has been noted previously). Stapleton and James have a similar singing style, too. Listen to “Tennessee Whiskey” and then listen to James’ “I’d Rather Go Blind.” Both songs have the 12/8 rhythmic meter, are in the key of A, and have a chord progression often found in classic gospel and soul music. Take James, for example, a singer whose own career spanned R&B, soul, blues, jazz and rock. The songs tell a different story, however. On the surface, there appears to be no relation between “Tennessee Whiskey” and soul and R&B artists such as Etta James and Otis Redding. ![]() Rolling Stone critic Will Hermes called it correctly in the first sentence of his review of From a Room:Volume 1, “Chris Stapleton is a soul singer.” ![]() Over two decades later, Stapleton put his stamp on the classic by infusing elements of soul and R&B into his country roots. Two years later, “Tennessee Whiskey” was a hit for the late, great George Jones. ![]() David Allan Coe was the first to record the song in 1981. Turned into a soulful ballad by the Kentucky native, “Tennessee Whiskey” was written by Dean Dillon, a former recording artist who penned dozens of songs for George Strait, and Linda Hargrove, a ’70s recording artist. In other words, “Tennessee Whiskey” is so Pandora: a song that’s spun alongside the music of myriad genres because Pandora’s algorithms can predict which songs go together and be liked by a particular listener. In high school, it would traverse a diverse handful of cliques. In baseball, “Tennessee Whiskey” would be called a five-tool player. I duet with James Harden would be great, wouldn’t it?Ĭhris Stapleton, whose third album, From a Room Volume 2, was released today, struck cross-genre Pandora gold with his cover of “Tennessee Whiskey,” a song that first hit the top ten in the ’80s. ![]()
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