Randy Travis
11 articles
Audio interviews
Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages audio, June 1988
The First Gentleman of New Country talks about being on the road, his North Carolina roots, the New Country boom, his youthful indiscretions, and the nature of country music.
File format: mp3; file size: 36mb, interview length: 39' 22" sound quality: ***
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Randy Travis: Storms Of Life (Warner Bros.)
Review by Davitt Sigerson, Rolling Stone, 25 September 1986
OF ALL THE cool new Country stars, expect Randy Travis to last the longest. ...
Report and Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 18 December 1986
A year after The New York Times ran its obit, country music is stronger than ever, thanks to artists like Steve Earle, Dwight Yoakam and ...
New Country: Banjoing the Roy Rogers Image
Report and Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 27 March 1987
It may have had a hard time persuading people to take it seriously but, as Adam Sweeting reports, country music is winning ...
Report by Laura Fissinger, New York Daily News, 20 December 1987
Country is giving berth to rock these days ...
Randy Travis: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 21 June 1988
Timeless voice ...
Randy Travis, K.T. Oslin: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 10 August 1989
Travis, Oslin's Smooth and Easy Outing ...
Randy Travis: Heroes & Friends (Warner Bros 75992631)
Review by Mat Snow, Q, November 1990
IT'S A MEASURE of how far country golden boy Randy Travis has come in only five years that he can attract such a stellar cast ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001
b. Randy Bruce Traywick, 4 May 1959, Marshville, North Carolina, USA ...
Dwight Yoakam: The Very Best Of; Randy Travis: The Very Best Of
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, November 2004
ROUTE 88 WAS an ambitious cross-label campaign to establish several country stars in the UK, with Yoakam and Travis seen by many as the twin ...
Five Years That Revolutionized Country Music
Retrospective by Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, 2019
THE COUNTRY MUSIC situation in 1985 was so dire that The New York Times published an article that, if not quite an obituary, was a ...
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