Chris Stapleton and Miranda Lambert delivered a powerful live performance of “What Am I Gonna Do” during a special collaboration. This marked the premiere of the song in a live setting, showcasing the undeniable chemistry between these two country music stars.

Chris Stapleton and Miranda Lambert are two of the biggest forces in country music today. And those forces combined are certainly something. The two country superstars co-wrote “What Am I Gonna Do,” the opening track on Stapleton’s highly acclaimed 2023 album Higher. On Saturday (Aug. 24), Lambert joined the “White Horse” singer onstage for their first-ever live duet of the song.

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Miranda Lambert Opened For Chris Stapleton in Houston

There are certain country songs you listen to when you want to move on from a breakup like yesterday. And there are others that you blast when you want to curl up inside your own heartbreak and stay there awhile. “What Am I Gonna Do” falls into the latter category: What am I gonna do / When I get over you? / What am I gonna be / When you’re just a memory? / What am I gonna drink / When I don’t have to think / About what I’m gonna do / Without you?

The quietly devastating number usually sees Chris Stapleton trading harmonies with wife Morgane. However, Miranda Lambert opened for Stapleton during his Saturday (Aug. 24) “All-American Road Show” stop at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas. Later, the “Wranglers” singer rejoined Stapleton onstage to stand in for Morgane on “What Am I Gonna Do.”

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The pair’s voices mingled perfectly as they performed the heartbreaking ballad live together for the first time: Been drinkin’ everything on that shelf / Feels like I’m killin’ myself / You’re gone, and it hurts like hell / Wishin’ I was anybody else.

And this wasn’t the first time Lambert had filled for Morgane Stapleton. When the singer-songwriter had to miss the 2021 ACM Awards, the “Dammit Randy” singer was there to take her place in a duet of “Maggie’s Song.”