Traveller
by Chris Stapleton

Traveller by Chris Stapleton
Year: 2015
Release date: 2015-05-05
Overall rank: 2,757th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 122 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2015 (50th)
Award Top albums of the 2010s (453rd)
Award Best albums of all time (2,757th)

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Traveller is ranked as the best album by Chris Stapleton.

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This album (2,757th)
Traveller
Lower ranked (5,269th) »
Starting Over

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Traveller track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Overall rank: 2,757th | 2010s rank: 453rd | 2015 rank: 50th

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Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 122 votes)
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39 hours ago DaveH68  Ratings distribution  1,36376/100
 
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12/29/2025 17:19 mutant  Ratings distribution  1,67156/100
 
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12/03/2025 04:28 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  7,69970/100
 
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09/14/2025 18:08 RemainInLight  Ratings distribution  3,20936/100
 
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08/15/2025 01:57 baystateoftheart  Ratings distribution  2,82072/100

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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.3/100, a mean average of 74.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.7.

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From 02/19/2019 01:14 | #232165
I can detect an artist for miles and miles away, unlike many other fake and capitalist musicians, Chris Stapleton manages to create and maintain the essence that a true artist must have. Fantastic record, wonderful songs!
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From 08/24/2015 19:44 | #148425
This is a really, really solid debut album from an established Nashville songwriter. The issue is, I think I want to like it more than I actually do.

This album is a step in the right direction in terms of steering the "main stream country music" ship back around. It contains powerful vocals, traditional outlaw instrumentation, even videos surfacing of Bill Murray, fist in the air, enthusiastically singing along. Most importantly the album doesn't feel the need to marginalize, in an effort reach the populous.

Still, there is something that doesn't quite resonate with me, and I fail to ever really connect emotionally. I'd have to do a little research, but I'm sure Stapleton broke the record for most whiskey references in a single album. I think that shallow subject matter, while it makes for a couple good songs, is the reason the album feels a little one dimensional.

That being said, i like the album for what it is, and its head and shoulders above the majority of its contemporaries. There are some really good tracks like "Daddy Doesn't Pray" and "The Devil Named Music" but "Fire Away" is in contention for one of my favorite songs of the year.
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