Search google news for "randy travis." The man is not having a good year.
Here's a story: country music legend with sixteen #1 hits to his name walks into a convenience store several days ago, stark naked, and sets a couple of packs of cigarettes on the counter.
Clerk eventually is forced to go, "How do you plan on paying for those?" At which point RT, naked, realizes that he's not carrying any cash. He walks out.
Later he is spotted lying on the pavement, stark naked, with his trashed 1998 Chevy (I think it was) a smoking hulk in a ditch.
Cops pick him up. They smell booze on his breath. He refuses a breath test, so they take his blood. During the ride to jail, he threatens to kill them.
How many ways can you spell "trouble"?
His wife of 19 years divorced him in 2010, but since she's been his manager for 30 years, he kept her on in that role--until, recently, she quit, claiming that he made it impossible for her to do her job.
He's has several DUI's this year.
How many ways can you spell "trouble"?
Later he walks out of jail barefoot, with a shirt somebody gave him and a baseball cap.
"Somebody call my manager!" Oh, that's right. Shoot.
Livin' large, I guess, in the great tradition of country music.
Last Edited by on Aug 13, 2012 12:41 PM
Getting drunk and raising hell doesn't hurt country singers. Never really has PRwise. Back in the day - and I'm talkign about Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers - you expected these people who sang about pain to feel pain and deal with it in such ways. It's an unrealistic notion, but a real perception nevertheless. Hank Williams did get fired from the Opry, but he was bigger than the opry and this stuff never hurt his career until he died in the back of a Cadillac on New Year's Eve on U.S. 19 in West Virginia. When I saw this, I thought of when George Jones got drunk and wife Tammy Wynette took his keys, so he rode the riding lawn mower into town for some brews and got picked up by the police. He's one of the last people in the country music scene still singing actual country music. As long as he can make it to the shows, he'll be fine careerwise... but then again, George Jones didn't make his shows half the time.
---------- David
____________________ At the time of his birth, it was widely accepted that no one man could play that much music so well or raise that much hell. He proved them all wrong. R.I.P. H. Cecil Payne
In the interest of keeping schadenfreude from getting the best of us, here's a video to remind us that Randy Travis was doing some great, old-school country in the mid-80's, when mainstream country was at an all-time low in terms of quality and popularity. Here's a good one, featuring Terry McMillan on harp:
Thanks for the story. I enjoyed it. It's not funny really, but then again, it's very funny. And tex Williams. Very nice, I have been thinking about working up a cover of his Smoke Smoke Smoke. ----------
My research team has failed me,and I am having a drink thinking about some great country harp solos played by I think Terry McMillen.Garth Brooks don't come home till the sun comes up,Brooks and Dunn Boot Scootin Boogie come to mind as country blues harp at its finest,maybe I'm wrong about terry anybody correct me on this.
I know I heard Terry play the best Amazing grace,with Todd Parrot coming in a close second.I heard Terry died fairly young,what a player.Randy's dipping his beak a tad too much but will have some great material for some new tunes.
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@CAPNJ, Just looked up boot scoot and boogie. THERE IS NO HARMONICA ON THAT SONG!!!! (Check YouTube) I know Brooks and Dunn have a harmonica on one of their songs, but I cant seem to find it. One thing I know, It's NOT Boot, Scoot, & Boogie.
If it wasn't Boot,Scoot & Boogie,which one was it? I know some song by Brooks & Dunn has some terrific harp on it. Which one was it and who was the player? Does anyone know? I could have sworn it was Boot Scootin'. Maybe an alternate take?
Seriously, this one has been bugging me for at least two years. I heard it once, was mesmerized, and then totally forgot the title of the song. HELP!!!!!
Stick the harp solo is on their cd hard working man,that's the version of boot scoot I referred too.All their music is harp friendly,probably my favorite country western outfit.Old Johnny paycheck take this job and shove it travelled,and recorded with a harp player,can't remember his name,but sounded spot on.Of course Micky Raphael with willy,and did some with my man waylon early in his career.
Last Edited by on Aug 14, 2012 12:13 PM
I decided to show everyone his new album.... ---------- Kyzer's Travels Kyzer's Artwork "Music in the soul can be heard by the universe." - Lao Tzu
Last Edited by on Aug 14, 2012 5:51 PM
98 trans am in the ditch. Gotta be a song in that. If he'd only remembered to take some money, probably no-0ne wooda ever knowed. See, mum knew what she was talking about, "always be sure to have clean underwear when you leave the house." if he'd had clean underwear he would have had somewhere to carry the money for one thing, and think what a different headline it would have been if you substituted "wearing clean underwear" for "naked". Listen to momma! ----------
Last Edited by on Aug 15, 2012 1:25 AM
Bee...that good ole boy musta had a belly for of the HARD STUFF to get that outta control - he probably could of shit his pants being that drunk and would of cared less. He might of soiled himself and that's why he was in his birthday suit?
Last Edited by on Aug 15, 2012 4:48 AM
