61 Facts About Travis Tritt

James Travis Tritt was born on February 9,1963 and is an American country artist.

Travis Tritt has received two Grammy Awards, both for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals: in 1992 for "The Whiskey Ain't Workin'", a duet with Marty Stuart, and again in 1998 for "Same Old Train", a collaboration with Stuart and nine other artists.

Travis Tritt has received four awards from the Country Music Association and has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1992.

James Travis Tritt was born on February 9,1963, in Marietta, Georgia, to James and Gwen Tritt.

Travis Tritt first took interest in singing after his church's Sunday school choir performed "Everything Is Beautiful".

Travis Tritt received his first guitar at age 8 and taught himself how to play it; in the fourth grade, he performed "Annie's Song" and "King of the Road" for his class, and later got invited to play for other classrooms in his school.

Later on, Travis Tritt joined his church band, which occasionally performed at other churches nearby.

Travis Tritt began writing music while he was attending Sprayberry High School; his first song composition, entitled "Spend a Little Time", was written about a girlfriend whom he had broken up with.

Travis Tritt performed the song for his friends, one of whom complimented him on his songwriting skills.

Travis Tritt founded a bluegrass group with some of his friends and won second place in a local tournament for playing "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys".

Travis Tritt lived with his mother after she and his father divorced; they remarried when he was 18.

Travis Tritt worked at an air conditioning company while playing in clubs, but gave up the air conditioning job at the suggestion of one of his bandmates.

Travis Tritt's father thought that he would not find success as a musician, while his mother thought that he should perform Christian music instead of country.

In 1991, Travis Tritt received a second Horizon Award nomination, which he won that year.

Travis Tritt released his second album, It's All About to Change.

In June 1992, Travis Tritt received media attention when he criticized Billy Ray Cyrus' "Achy Breaky Heart" at a Fan Fair interview, saying that he did not think that Cyrus' song made a "statement".

Travis Tritt later apologized to Cyrus, but said that he defended his opinion on the song.

One month after the release of T-R-O-U-B-L-E, Tritt issued a Christmas album titled A Travis Tritt Christmas: Loving Time of the Year, for which he wrote the title track.

Travis Tritt joined the Grand Ole Opry, a weekly stage show and radio broadcast specializing in country music performances, and filled in for Garth Brooks at a performance on the American Music Awards.

In early 1994, after "Worth Every Mile" fell from the charts, Travis Tritt charted at number 21 with a cover of the Eagles' "Take It Easy".

When filming the music video for this song, Travis Tritt requested that the band, which had been on hiatus for over 13 years, appear in it.

Travis Tritt charted at number three in mid-1996 with "More Than You'll Ever Know", the first single from his fifth album, The Restless Kind.

The album accounted for one more top ten hit, a cover of Waylon Jennings's "Where Corn Don't Grow", which Travis Tritt took to number six in late 1996.

Unlike his previous albums, all of which were produced by Gregg Brown, Travis Tritt produced The Restless Kind with Don Was.

Travis Tritt told Billboard that the album showed a greater level of personal involvement than his previous efforts, as it was his first co-production credit.

Travis Tritt noted that he sang most of the vocal harmony by himself, played guitar on "She's Going Home with Me", and helped with the album's art direction.

Travis Tritt performed on Frank Wildhorn's concept album of the musical The Civil War, singing the song "The Day the Sun Stood Still".

Late in 1999, Travis Tritt recorded a cover of Hank Williams's "Move It On Over" with George Thorogood for the soundtrack to the cartoon King of the Hill.

Records, Travis Tritt signed to Columbia Records and released the album Down the Road I Go in 2000.

Travis Tritt wrote or co-wrote seven of the album's songs, including "Best of Intentions", and collaborated with Charlie Daniels on two of them.

Maria Konicki Dinoia gave the album a positive review on AllMusic, saying that Travis Tritt "hasn't lost his touch".

In September 2002, Travis Tritt released his second album on Columbia Records, Strong Enough.

Also in 2002, Travis Tritt performed on an episode of Crossroads, a program on Country Music Television which pairs country acts with musicians from other genres for collaborative performances.

Travis Tritt contributed guest vocals to Charlie Daniels' 2003 single "Southern Boy", and recorded a cover of Waylon Jennings' "Lonesome, On'ry and Mean" to the RCA Records tribute album I've Always Been Crazy.

Travis Tritt exited Columbia in July 2005, citing creative differences over My Honky Tonk History.

Travis Tritt signed to the independent Category 5 Records in February 2006, and served as the label's flagship artist.

In March 2007, a concert promoter in the Pittsburgh area sued Travis Tritt, claiming he had committed to play a show, but then backed out and signed to play a competing venue.

Travis Tritt's manager denied he had ever signed a contract with the promoter.

Travis Tritt released his first single for Category 5 in May 2007: a cover of the Richard Marx song "You Never Take Me Dancing".

In October 2008, Travis Tritt began an 11-date tour with Marty Stuart.

On this tour, they performed acoustic renditions of their duets; Travis Tritt performed five solo shows.

Travis Tritt signed a management deal with Parallel Entertainment in December 2010.

Travis Tritt continued to tour through to 2012 and into 2013, with most of his shows being solo acoustic performances.

Travis Tritt acquired the rights to the songs on The Storm and re-issued it via his own Post Oak label in July 2013 under the title The Calm After.

Travis Tritt's first acting role was in the 1993 made-for-television movie Rio Diablo.

In 1994, Travis Tritt made a special appearance as a bull rider in the movie The Cowboy Way, which starred Woody Harrelson, Kiefer Sutherland and Dylan McDermott.

Travis Tritt starred in a guest role on Yes, Dear as a rehabilitating criminal and in Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman as a gun slinger.

Bilko, which starred Steve Martin, Dan Aykroyd and Phil Hartman; Travis Tritt's cover of "Only You " appeared in the film's soundtrack.

Travis Tritt made an appearance in the 1997 film Fire Down Below, starring Steven Seagal and Kris Kristofferson.

In 1999 Travis Tritt appeared in Outlaw Justice with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson.

Travis Tritt appeared in the film Blues Brothers 2000 as one of the Louisiana Gator Boys.

Travis Tritt said that he took interest in how African-American singers put "all these bends and sweeps and curls" in their voices, and began emulating that sound.

Travis Tritt said that he found his songwriting began to develop during the creation of his demo tape, when he had written a song called "Gambler's Blues" that "felt a lot more connected to Southern rock" than his previous writings.

Travis Tritt cites country, rock and folk as his influences.

Travis Tritt described "Here's a Quarter" as "one of the simplest three-chord waltzes I've ever written", and said that label executives were reluctant to release it because they thought that it was a novelty song.

Travis Tritt said that, despite their low peaks, the more rock-influenced "Put Some Drive in Your Country" and "T-R-O-U-B-L-E" helped generate sales for their respective albums more so than the top ten hits from those albums.

Travis Tritt married his high school sweetheart, Karen Ryon, in September 1982.

Travis Tritt divorced her shortly after signing with Warner Bros.

Travis Tritt wrote the song "Here's a Quarter" the night he received his divorce papers.

Travis Tritt told Insight on the News that he is a strong supporter of Second Amendment rights and believes the answer to crime is not gun control but criminal control.

In September 2020, Travis Tritt gained notoriety for joining fellow Republican James Woods in blocking random Twitter users for using pro-Black Lives Matter and other anti-Trump tags in their posts, under the belief that it would counteract anti-Republican sentiment on Twitter.