“White Horse” by Chris Stapleton

Chris Stapleton launched his fifth album, Higher, with "White Horse" in July 2023, and the tags hung on it run from country rock through blues rock to plain hard rock. He wrote it with Dan Wilson and produced it with Dave Cobb and Morgane Stapleton. Chris sings and plays electric guitar, Morgane adds synthesizer and backing vocals, Cobb plays acoustic, and J.T. Cure, Derek Mixon and Lee Pardini fill in bass, drums and Hammond organ. Vance Powell recorded it with Gena Johnson and handled the mix.

It spent two weeks stuck at number two on the Country Airplay chart, held off by Nate Smith's "World on Fire", but the trophy shelf made up for it: Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song at the 66th Grammys, then Single and Song of the Year at the 58th CMA Awards.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.