Later this fall, the big-voiced country-music statesman Chris Stapleton will release the new album Starting Over. Stapleton recorded the new LP, the follow-up to 2017’s twin From A Room albums, in Nashville’s storied RCA Studio A, doing things old-school. The album features appearances from Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench, two former members of Tom Petty’s Heartbreakers, and it finds Stapleton covering John Fogerty and Guy Clark. We’ve already posted the title track. Today, Stapleton shares a new song called “Cold.”

“Cold” is a massive, growly ballad of a song. It’s more of a bluesy rock song than a classically country one, and it has melodramatic strings that remind me of James Bond themes — a surprising thing for a damn Chris Stapleton song. But Stapleton really belts the thing out. When Stapleton gets back to touring, he’ll be headlining arenas, and this is the kind of song that’s built to echo around the upper rafters and to let Stapleton show the full power of the voice.

On many of his songs, Stapleton harmonizes with his wife Morgane, a singer just as powerful as Chris himself. (She might actually be more powerful.) “Cold” is a song about romantic desolation, so it makes sense that Stapleton sings it himself, but I think it’s missing something without Morgane. Stapleton co-wrote “Cold” with his producer Dave Cobb and his band members JT Cure and Derek Mixon. Listen to it below.

Starting Over is out 11/13 on Mercury Records Nashville.