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Hard-Earned Wisdom

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by Chris Stapleton

With unruly long hair, a Stetson and ragged beard falling to his chest, Kentucky’s Chris Stapleton looks like the guy on a reality show building an off-grid cabin in Alaska.

But this gifted songwriter – eight Grammys, 14 Country Music Association awards and nine from the Academy of Country(which got her on to the country charts), collaborated with Ed Sheeran and Sheryl Crow, and wrote huge country hits for George Strait and Kenny Chesney, among others. He’s recorded with Taylor Swift (I and Justin Timberlake (Say

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