Chris Lane’s Drops Highly-Anticipated New EP, ‘From Where I’m Sippin”

Chris Lane released his highly-anticipated new EP Friday (October 20) titled From Where I'm Sippin'. The project features five must-listen country songs that cover everything from breakups to new perspectives.

The country star's EP, From Where I'm Sippin', includes his current and lead single now at country radio, "Find Another Bar." Lane's new chapter also showcases his songwriting skills with four of the five tracks listed below all co-written by the hitmaker himself.

"My new EP is out everywhere now!! 'From Where I’m Sippin'' is a special project to me, and I hope these songs transport you to cherished moments in your life, stirring up memories and emotions like never before. Your support and anticipation have meant the world to me for this release and I can’t thank y’all enough. You can now listen to it on all major music platforms, share it with your friends and I can’t wait to see y’all on the road soon! Now go TURN IT UPPPPPP Y’ALL," Lane posted on Instagram.

Lane's 2023 release is the first project to be launched with his new label home, a partnership of Rascal Flatts' Jay DeMarcus' Red Street Records and Voyager Records.

To coincide with the release of his new music, Lane also unveiled an official visualizer for both "Mistake" starring his wife, Lauren Lane, and "Way To Go Girl."

Lane will play at the Country Bay Music Festival in Key Biscayne, Florida in November and the Yuletide at Devon Festival in Devon, Pennsylvania in December. There has been no word on 2024 touring plans as of yet.

Track List for Chris Lane's EP From Where I'm Sippin':
1. "Mistake" (Chris Lane, Michael Lotten, Josh Miller)
2. "Way to Go Girl" (Casey Brown, John Byron, Ashley Gorley, Blake Pendergrass)
3. "Betcha" (Chris Lane, Casey Brown, Travis Wood)
4. "Find Another Bar" (Chris Lane, Justin Ebach, Josh Thompson)
5. "From Where I'm Sippin'" (Chris Lane, Josh Miller, Jordan Minton, Mark Trussell)

The CMA Awards' Male Vocalist category has existed since the CMA Awards began in the 1960s. During that decade, winners of the award included Johnny Cash and Glen Campbell. In the 1970s, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Charley Pride, Kenny Rogers, and Ronnie Milsap won the Male Vocalist Award. Milsap took home the honor three times, and Pride won it twice in that decade. The 1980s saw names like George Jones, Ricky Skaggs, Randy Travis, and George Strait win the honor. Vince Gill dominated the Male Vocalist category at the CMAs in the 1990s, winning the trophy five times.

The 2000s saw Alan Jackson, Tim McGraw, Keith Urban, and Brad Paisley take home the award. Blake Shelton won Male Vocalist five times in his career from the CMA beginning in 2010.

Flash forward to the late 2010s and the 2020s, and Chris Stapleton dominates the category with six wins, including a win for Male Vocalist last year (2022). Chris said when he won the honor for the sixth time. "Well, okay. Man, thank you so much for this. It means so much to get an award from my friends back here. I was sitting over there, and all the guys in the category all deserve this award. Everybody's killin' it. I am so honored to be a member of the country music community." He then wished his daughter Ada a happy twelfth birthday. There's a good chance Stapleton could win his seventh award in the category at the award show next month.

The 2023 CMA Awards  is only weeks away, and we will know who takes home Male Vocalist in 2023. The nominees are Chris, Luke Combs, Cody Johnson, Jelly Roll, and Morgan Wallen. We take a look at each nominee in this year's category to shed some light on who may walk away with the Male Vocalist prize this time.

Luke has won this award twice in his career from the CMA already in 2019 and 2020. At the top of his game, Combs has already won the Entertainer of the Year from the CMA twice in 2021 and 2022. Luke's voice and popularity make him a shoo-in to win this honor once again. It would be no big surprise if he walked away with the honor again in 2023.

Below is his first win for Male Vocalist presented by Trisha Yearwood, who noted before she gave out the award that Male Vocalist fifty years ago went to the Man in Black himself, Johnny Cash.

This is Jelly Roll's very first nomination in the Male Vocalist category for the CMA. With the on-fire year that Jelly has had in 2023, he very well could win. Jelly has yet to perform at the CMA Awards and will undoubtedly do so this year. In June, he made his debut performance on the CMA Fest stage and said that he was "trembling" when he performed, being nervous about stepping onto the stage that he has watched all of his life as a Nashville native.

This is Cody Johnson's second Male Vocalist nomination at the CMA Awards. A win in this category would be so important to the Texan who is lighting up country music and releasing his much-anticipated "Leather" album a couple of days before the CMA Awards are to be handed out this year on November 8. Cody performed his CMA winner for Single of the Year in 2022, "Til You Can't," at last year's CMA Awards.

Chris has won twenty-five CMA Awards in his career so far, including six Male Vocalist wins in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, and 2022. Known as one of country music's best vocalists ever, Stapleton has also won the Album of the Year award three times.

When he won last year, he wished his daughter Ada a Happy Birthday as he promised her he would if he won.

This Male Vocalist nod is Morgan's second nomination in the category. With his amazing success and selling out multiple nights at stadiums this past summer, a win for Morgan here would be no surprise. Although he has been nominated for eight CMA awards to date, including a nomination for the Entertainer of the Year this year (2023), he has only won a CMA once. He won the New Artist Award in 2020.