Comments on: 100 Greatest Men: #31. Randy Travis

By: V

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:04:31 +0000

u guys plan to fill this list up?

By: Leeann Ward

Leeann Ward — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 02:20:48 +0000

Randy Travis is among my all time personal favorite artists.

By: Erik North

Erik North — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:07:44 +0000

One wishes, though, that he’d take better care of himself, given that scrape with the law he got into just a little while ago. The last thing the music business, including the country music business, needs is another statistic (IMHO).

By: Ben Foster

Ben Foster — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 16:31:07 +0000

I do remember that show! I don’t think I saw it more than once or twice, but I do remember that episode. I didn’t even know until a recent Wikipedia trolling session that it was Randy Travis singing. Ah, memories…

By: Motown Mike

Motown Mike — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 04:12:19 +0000

I discovered Randy Travis from a kids cartoon of all places. I used to watch a show as a kid called “Hey Arnold” on Nickelodeon. Ben, you might remember that show. Anyways, Randy Travis had a cameo singing a song wrote for the show called “The Simple Things”. Travis himself was not drawn into the show, rather his voice was used when it was revealed that one of the characters on the show had a knack for signing country music. Ever since that episode of “Hey Arnold”, I’ve been a Randy Travis fan.

I would like to add “1982″ to the list of essential singles.

By: bob

bob — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 12:51:44 +0000

I didn’t discover Travis til the early 90′s – it may have been after seeing him on Matlack. I do like his music. The singles you mentioned are all great. Another favorite is an album track from his “Around the Bend” album, “Everything That I Own (Has Got a Dent)”, written by Tony Martin & Mark Nesler.

By: Auguste

Auguste — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 09:35:25 +0000

…he gave country music one of its defining works – the “storms of life” album – in 1986. he sang with a bariton voice that was simply beautiful to listen to. he was the last country-superstar before “real country-superstardom” started meaning that you had to become bigger than the genre itself to earn that title. and in some ways you could also call him a slightly tragic figure, when he was swept away by a movement – largely initiated by him – and peers, who made the 90′ the decade of a lifetime for the genre.

he resorted to god looking for some answers and found remarkable songs along the way – whether he found all the answers – god knows.

randy travis was a milestone, but to mix and mingle with the alltime greatest you would have to be an interstate intersection with a truck stop, 76 sign, motel, cracker barrel or a pancake house and such.

today, he is a slightly withered milestone, but as it stands, it still marks – so far – the last exit to a sound that that most people around the world would instantly recognise as country music. in a universe littered with terrific three minutes snapshots at life, the title track of that legendary album of his is a testament of how good it can get out there.

By: Paul W Dennis

Paul W Dennis — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 05:37:23 +0000

If you were to rate Randy on his vocal prowess alone, he would be a top ten entry here – very few male vocalists would rank with him in that regard – Jim Reeves, Ray Price, Gene Watson, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard, Carl Smith, Vern Gosden, George Jones and maybe a few others – would be his peers.

By: Ben Foster

Ben Foster — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 21:27:41 +0000

Country music will never get another Randy Travis, but it sure could use one right now.

Can’t wait to see the Top 30 entries!