Artist: Randy Travis: mp3 download Genre(s): Country Other Pop Discography: Three Wooden Crosses Year: 2007 Tracks: 1 Glory Train: Songs Of Faith, Worship and Praise Year: 2005 Tracks: 19 The Very Best Of Randy Travis Year: 2004 Tracks: 20 Passing Through Year: 2004 Tracks: 11 Rise and Shine Year: 2002 Tracks: 13 A Man Ain't Made of Stone Year: 1999 Tracks: 12 This Is Me Year: 1994 Tracks: 10 Storms of Life Year: 1990 Tracks: 10 Old 8x10 Year: 1990 Tracks: 11 Heroes and Friends Year: 1990 Tracks: 13 Always and Forever Year: 1990 Tracks: 10 No Holdin' Back Year: 1989 Tracks: 10 Like the Beatles in rock candy, Randy Travis first Baron Marks of Broughton a generational transfer in rural area music. When his Storms of Life came out in 1986, farming music was still wallowing in the post-urban cowboy recession, chasing elusive crossover dreams. Travis brought the music gauge to its fundamentals, looking like cypher so practically as a thoroughgoing blending of George Jones and Merle Haggard. He became the dominant male voice in rural area until the rise of "lid acts of the Apostles" care Garth Brooks and Clint Black, cathartic seven back-to-back number one singles during i stretch along. He south Korean north Korean won the CMA's Horizon Award in 1986 and was the association's Male Vocalist of the Year in 1987 and 1988. Travis (born Randy Bruce Traywick, May 4, 1959, Marshville, NC) was born and raised in North Carolina, in a little township external of Charlotte. His founder bucked up his children to pursue their musical inclinations, as he was a winnow of honky tonkers like Hank Williams, Jones, and Lefty Frizzell. Randy began playing guitar at the historic period of eighter, and inside 2 days, he and his blood brother Ricky formed a duo called the Traywick Brothers. The couple played in local clubs and natural endowment contests. Both of the brothers had a wild streak, which resulted in Ricky loss to pokey after a elevator car chase and Randy linear away to Charlotte at the historic period of 16. While he was in Charlotte, he south Korean won a talent contest at Country City U.S.A., a bar owned by Lib Hatcher. Hatcher was impressed by Travis and offered him a regular gig at her bar, as well as a job as a cook. For several age, he panax quinquefolius and worked at Country City. He still had trouble with the police in his late teens. At his lowest words with the police, the guess told him if he saw Travis once more he should be prepared to go to gaol for a long time. Travis was released into the upkeep of Hatcher. In a short time, Hatcher became Travis' handler, and the geminate began to contract on his vocation. Joe Stampley helped Travis soil a undertake with Paula Records in 1978. The following year, Travis released deuce singles under his granted nominate; one of them, "She's My Woman," scraped the bed of the nation charts. In 1982, Travis and Hatcher stirred to Nashville, where she managed the Nashville Palace cabaret piece he panax quinquefolius and cooked. Within a brace of years, the couple independently released his debut album under the name Randy Ray; the record was called Randy Ray Live and sold principally in the Nashville Palace. Thanks to Hatcher's haunting efforts and the Randy Ray Live album, Warner Brothers signed Travis in 1985 and suggested that he change his playing list to Randy Travis. "On the Other Hand," his low gear single for the mark, was released in the summertime of that class and climbed to number 67. Despite its lusterless execution, radio set programmers were enthusiastic for Travis, as evidenced by the number six-spot placing of "1982," which was released previous in the class. "1982" was followed by a re-release of "On the Other Hand" in the spring of 1986. This time, the vocal hit number one. Storms of Life, Travis' full-fledged debut album, was released in the summertime of 1986 and became a vast success, finally marketing all over trine jillion copies. Travis was the low gear nation artist to go multi-platinum; before his success, most country artists had difficulty achieving gold position. With his mass appeal, he determine the stage for country music's crossing over success in the early '90s. However, Travis dominated the former '80s. The lowest 2 singles from Storms of Life, "Diggin' Up Bones" and "No Place Like Home," hit number one and 2, respectively. "Forever and Ever, Amen" -- the low gear single from his minute record album, 1987's Always & Forever -- began a streak of heptad straight number one singles that ran through 1989. Incessantly & Forever was more successful than his debut, stretch number 19 on the pop charts and going quadruple platinum; it also earned him the CMA's prize for Male Vocalist of the Year. Old 8x10 (1988) and No Holdin' Back (1989) weren't quite as successful as their predecessors, just they inactive spawned number one singles and both went atomic number 78. Travis was tranquil at the teetotum of his shape in the start of the '90s, starting the decade with his biggest hit, "Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart." However, his hold at the top of the charts began to slip later on Clint Black and, in particular, Garth Brooks. Nevertheless, Travis never fell away completely -- his albums continued to gold and he normally could crack the Top Ten. Wind instrument in the Wire, a soundtrack to his telecasting particular released in 1992, pronounced his first base unsuccessful album -- none of the singles skint the Top 40. This Is Me, released in 1994, was a successful replication to the top of the charts, featuring "Whispering My Name," his number one number one strike in two age. In August 1996, Travis released Full Circle, his last record album for Warner Brothers. He left the label in 1997, signing with the neophyte "super" label DreamWorks. His number one record album for the label, You and You Alone, was released in the springtime of 1998; Man Ain't Made of Stone followed a year later. Traveling the familiar rural area route, he released an album of traditional and contemporary religious songs, Inspirational Journey, which shoot the stores in late 2000. The record album went on to pull ahead 2 awards at The Gospel Music Association's 32nd Annual Dove Awards in 2001; Inspirational Journey took plate honors for Country/Bluegrass Album of the Year and Country Recorded Song of the Year for "Baptism." Select songs from the record album as well made their way in the two-way finale for Stirred by an Angel, which featured Travis in persona. Two geezerhood later, Travis continued with his creed fare with the acquittance of Rise and Shine, followed by the likewise reverent Worship & Faith, Passing Through and Glory Train. |
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