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Randy Travis

Randy Travis, like the Beatles in rock, defines the coming of a musical era. Listen to any country radio station today, and you'll hear only a handful of acts who recorded before he did, and almost never will you hear a song recorded before Travis came on the scene. In the mid-'80s, as Nashville struggled over the passing of the Urban Cowboy fad and tried harder and harder to cross over into pop, Travis came along with a classic hard-country sound reminiscent of George Jones, Merle Haggard, and Lefty Frizzell and, more than any other performer of his time, brought country back to its roots.

Born Randy Bruce Traywick, on May 4, 1959, in Marshville, North Carolina, he performed as Randy Traywick and Randy Ray before settling on the stage name Randy Travis. He washed...
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