Watch Chris Stapleton Destroy the Grammy Viewers With ‘Chilly’

Chris Stapleton carried out his Grammy-winning tune “Chilly” on the 2022 ceremonies in Las Vegas, incomes a standing ovation within the course of.

“Why you bought to be so chilly/Why you bought to go and reduce me with a knife, put our love on ice?” the nation singer bellowed, bathed in blueish gentle and backed by a string part and his longtime band. Everybody onstage was enjoying stay too: Stapleton refuses to carry out to a pre-taped observe at awards exhibits.

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“Chilly,” which gained Finest Nation Track earlier within the day, seems on Stapleton’s newest album Beginning Over, this yr’s Grammy winner for Finest Nation Album. Written by Stapleton with producer Dave Cobb and his bandmates J.T. Treatment and Derek Mixon, the tune is framed by an angular minor-key piano half that evokes the moodiness of Radiohead. (The Heartbreakers’ Benmont Tench performed keys on the recording.)

“We wrote it on the street,” Stapleton mentioned within the Grammys press room. “That tune got here from a jam backstage. We hope they pop up typically. We didn’t sit it out and map it that method, it simply occurred.”

Stapleton additionally carried out “Chilly” with a string part ultimately November’s CMA Awards and, a month earlier, watched from the viewers on the CMT Artists of the Yr ceremony as Boyz II Males supplied their very own vocal-based rendition.

Stapleton was one of many high nation nominees at this yr’s Grammy Awards. Together with Finest Nation Album, he was nominated for Finest Nation Solo Efficiency for “You Ought to Most likely Go away” and for Finest Nation Track for “Chilly.”

Further reporting by Ethan Millman.