Travis for first time in two decades
With the help of AI, Travis released "Where That Came From" on May 3. the song is 45 on the charts.
The song received over 3.3 million first-week global streams with 82 percent of those organic.
With the help of two songwriters in John Scott Sherrill and Scotty Emerick, Travis' longtime producer Kyle Lehning, the musicians and special guest vocalist James Dupe providing a brand new musician credit "vocal bed," and an AI-powered voice model, Randy Travis recorded his first song in more than a decade.
Travis has had limited speech for over a decade, after surviving a stroke in 2013 that left him with aphasia.
After an Oregon fundraiser, Travis will fly home to Dallas to present at the ACM Awards on Thursday and then to Abilene and Greenville, Texas where he and his original band along with guest vocalist Dupre will present the More Life Tour, a musical journey through Travis' catalog of hits with video highlights
More news for Randy Travis
- 09/17/24: Travis announces More Life Tour
- 05/07/24: AI helps Travis make new recording
- 05/02/24: Travis returns with first new song in a decade
- 08/03/23: Travis tribute show coming
- 05/30/23: Louisiana Music Hall of Fame inducts Travis
- 11/03/21: Travis offers new version of old clunb.
- 10/13/21: 34 years after the fact, Travis releases video
- 06/02/21: On the other hand, "Storms of Life" returns
CD reviews for Randy Travis
Not having heard Randy Travis' new material, one could mistakenly think a guest vocalist was taking the first licks of "I'm Movin' On," his new album's opening cut. Is that Hank Snow? No, can't be. Refrain ... still the same voice. Second verse - oh man, that's Randy Travis! Wow, his voice sure has changed. Well, yeah, when you've been singing professionally since the mid-1980s, the ol' pipes can slip a bit. And Travis, 54, has battled serious ...
Randy Travis hasn't had it easy in recent years with abuse, arrests and this past summer, a major health issue of a stroke. But one thing that hasn't changed is the ease with which the North Carolina native, credited with spearheading the Neo Traditionalist movement 25 years ago, tackles traditional material. That's what this disc is about - Travis doing his take on songs that influenced him.
From the sounds of it, Travis had a lot of good music kicking around the house, especially Merle Haggard. ...
When Randy Travis released "A Few Ole Country Boys" in 1990, it was plain to see the message of his duet with (and ode to) the legendary George Jones hit close to home. Just a few years removed from his stint as a cook at Music City bar The Nashville Palace, Travis' delivery of lyrics such as "Not too many years ago/When dreams weren't comin' true/I'd reach for inspiration/Sometimes it would be you" carried heavy-hitting meaning by the budding star. ...
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