New music from the great Randy Travis is coming soon.
Few living artists have made an impact on country music the way Randy Travis has. With over 23 million albums sold worldwide, 23 #1 singles, seven Grammys and dozens upon dozens of awards from the likes of the ACMs and CMAs, the “I Told You So” singer has paved the way for over two generations of artists at this point.
Simply put, Travis’ journey over the past twelve years has been nothing short of incredible. If you recall, the “Three Wooden Crosses” singer suffered a massive stroke back in July 2013, which was caused by a complication of his congestive heart failure. At the time, doctors only gave him a 1% chance to live, but Travis pulled through.
The stroke, as we all know, did not come without its consequences, however. Despite surviving in what can only be described as a miracle, Travis has remained severely affected by it, developing aphasia and being extremely limited in terms of both speech and his ability to sing. In fact, Travis’ wife, Mary, recently revealed that the doctors advised her to “pull the plug” on the 7x Grammy winner after he developed a plethora of different hospital-born viruses, including Serratia, Pseudomonas and a staph infection while in the hospital.
Thankfully, the living legend has been seemingly making more appearances than ever over the past few years. Beyond releasing two new songs, “Where That Came From” and “Horses In Heaven,” with the help of AI (which has opened up an entirely new can of worms around the music industry recently) and guest vocalist, James Dupré, over the past year and a half, Travis has recently been touring extensively around the U.S. along with his original backing band and Dupré once again serving as a guest vocalist for all of his hits.
Back in November, he released yet another new track, this time pulling from the vault and dropping a beautiful Christmas song, “Where My Heart Is.” Undoubtedly, this gave fans hope that more unreleased, original music from Travis was on the horizon, much in the vein of recent releases from the likes of Waylon Jennings, Don Williams, Luke Bell and more.
Yesterday, during the grand opening of the Randy Travis Room at Nashville Palace, Mary and Randy would tell us here at Whiskey Riff that they do have plans of releasing a full-length album of even more vaulted tracks from the legend.
During our conversation, Mary revealed that they have an entire album’s worth of archived music, recorded before Randy’s stroke in 2013, that has already been mixed and mastered.
“We got a full deck. We have a whole new album coming out of archived music. It’s stuff that he had sang before the stroke. It’s been mastered, mixed and ready to go. We’ll be having a new album.”
When asked about a potential time frame for the release, Mary wouldn’t go into specifics. However, she would confirm that the album will be released by the end of the year.
As previously mentioned, this will mark the first album containing new, never-before-heard tracks from Travis since 2008 and his first full-length record in general since 2014. The world deserves a new Randy Travis project, and it looks like we will be getting one here very soon.
Before you go, fire up his most recent vault track, “Where My Heart Is.”
Randy Travis Tour Dates
Aug. 21 – Hiawassee, GA – Georgia Mountain Fall Festival – Anderson Music Hall
Aug. 22 – Richmond, KY – The Vine at Chenault Vineyards
Sept. 23 – Wilkes-Barre, PA – F.M. Kirby Center for the Performing Arts
Sept. 24 – Lansdowne, PA – Lansdowne Theater
Sept. 25 – Westbury, NY – Flagstar at Westbury Music Fair
Sept. 26 – York, PA – Pullo Center
Sept. 27 – Albany, NY – The Egg Performing Arts Center
Oct. 1 – New London, CT – Garde Arts Center
Oct. 2 – Keene, NH – Colonial Theatre
Oct. 3 – Plymouth, MA – Plymouth Memorial Hall
Oct. 4 – Northampton, MA – Academy of Music Theatre
Oct. 14 – Austin, TX – The Long Center for the Performing Arts
Oct. 15 – Dallas, TX – Longhorn Ballroom
Oct. 22 – Lubbock, TX – Buddy Holly Hall
Oct. 23 – Albuquerque, NM – Popejoy Theatre
Oct. 24 – Pueblo, CO – Pueblo Memorial Hall
Nov. 6 – Oklahoma City, OK – Civic Center Music Hall
Nov. 7 – Topeka, KS – Topeka Performing Arts Center
Nov. 8 – Branson, MO – Clay Cooper Theatre
