In a newsletter i received online from the Country Music Hall of Fame yesterday, it appears there are plans for Randy to appear there on November 7.

The newsletter reads, in part:

"In-Store Appearances
Nashville Cats
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Interview and Performance:
Holly Williams
This program, orginally scheduled for October 4, has been postponed until a later
date. Please check back for the rescheduled time.
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October and November
Don't miss appearances by
Dailey and Vincent on October 25,
Randy Travis on November 7,
and more, only at the Museum Store.
Click here
http://www.countrymusichalloffame.com/site/otherSigningRules.aspx
for signing rules and regulations."

Always and Forever...An RT Fan
Linda and Guide, Greg

http://www.countrymusichalloffame.com/site/news_detail.aspx?cid=3925

COUNTRY MUSIC SUPERSTAR RANDY TRAVIS TO VISIT COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME
®
AND MUSEUM ON NOVEMBER 7 FOR RARE PUBLIC INTERVIEW
Posted: 10/14/2008
NASHVILLE, Tenn., October 14, 2008 - Country music superstar Randy Travis will visit
the Country Music Hall of Fame
®
and Museum’s Ford Theater on Friday, November 7, for a rare public interview.
Travis, whose powerful yet understated baritone and hard-country aesthetic changed
the course of country music in the mid-1980s and helped to usher in the New Traditionalist
era, will talk about his career and his new CD,
Around the Bend, with Museum Editor Michael Gray.
The program, which will begin at 1:00 p.m., is included with Museum admission and
is free for Museum members.
Immediately following the interview, Travis will sign copies of Around the Bend
in the Museum Store.
Please visit the Museum’s web site for signing details.
Born in tiny Marshville, North Carolina, in 1959, Randy Bruce Traywick was encouraged
early in life to play and sing country music.
His father, Harold, bought Randy and his three brothers guitars and exposed them
to the recordings of Lefty Frizzell, Hank Williams and others.
By the age of 10, Randy and his brother Ricky were performing at fiddlers’ conventions,
private parties and VFW halls throughout the South.
Randy dropped out of school in ninth grade to pursue music full-time, and fell into
a rough and rowdy lifestyle that led to a series of scrapes with the law.
At age 16, Randy entered and won a talent show in Charlotte hosted by Country City,
USA.
The club’s owner, Lib Hatcher, took Randy under her wing and set him back on the
straight and narrow.
She gave the fledgling singer a job performing at the club and began managing him.
Randy’s first taste of success came in 1978, when he enjoyed a minor hit on the country
charts, “She’s My Woman,” produced by Joe Stampley and released on the independent
Paula label.
In 1981, Hatcher and Travis, by then known as Randy Ray, moved to Nashville and took
jobs at the Nashville Palace, a club near the Grand Ole Opry.
Hatcher managed the venue while Randy performed, cooked and washed dishes.
Although Music Row was initially slow to respond, eventually Warner Bros. A&R executive
Martha Sharp took notice.
She heard in Randy someone who could shepherd traditional country fans - many of
whom had been put off by the
Urban Cowboy
-influenced pop sounds of the early 1980s - back to the fold, and signed him to the
label.
Warner Bros. changed his name to Randy Travis, and Sharp paired him with producer
Kyle Lehning, a fortuitous partnership that would endure for decades.
In late 1985, Travis enjoyed his first Top Ten hits.
The following year, Travis’s major label debut,
Storms of Life, was released.
Fueled by numerous hit singles including “1982,” “On the Other Hand” and “Diggin’
Up Bones,” the album became an instant classic, spending eight weeks at #1 and selling
more than three million copies.
Storms of Life
was followed up by the 1987 release of
Always and Forever
, which contained Travis’s first hit as a songwriter, “I Told You So,” and the career
record “Forever and Ever, Amen.”
Always and Forever
spent an incredible 43 weeks at #1 and sold more than five million copies.
Storms of Life and Always and Forever
helped reconnect the country genre with its authentic roots, and ushered in what
became known as the New Traditionalist era in country music, a return to classic
country instrumentation and plaintive, honest lyrics. Travis’s millions of fans included
everyone from George Jones to the Rolling Stones, and he was lauded with dozens of
awards, including the Country Music Association’s Horizon Award (1986) and Male Vocalist
of the Year Award (1987 and 1988) and Grammys for Best Country Vocal Performance,
Male, in 1987 and 1988.
Travis, who wed manager Lib Hatcher in 1990, continued to enjoy chart success throughout
that decade.
He also devoted time to acting, appearing in more than a dozen films and TV movies,
as well as in the TV series
Matlock and Touched by an Angel.
By the turn of the century, Travis had made a successful foray into gospel music,
and his Atlantic Records/Warner Bros. album
Inspirational Journey
won 2001 Dove Awards for Bluegrass Album of the Year and Country Recorded Song of
the Year for his single “Baptism.”
In 2003, Travis’s single “Three Wooden Crosses” (from the album
Rise and Shine
) won both the Christian Country Music Association’s and the CMA’s Song of the Year
Awards.
The following year, it was similarly honored with both a Dove Award and a Song of
the Year accolade from the Academy of Country Music.
Rise and Shine and its follow-up, Worship & Faith, each garnered Travis another Grammy.
Around the Bend, Travis’s first country album in nearly nine years, was released
in July 2008. The CD, which reunited him with producer Kyle Lehning, is a return
to the New Country sound that Travis made famous. In reviewing
Around the Bend, The Los Angeles Times
’ Randy Lewis wrote that “[Travis's] oaky baritone remains a rich sonic force,” and
Amazon.com declared that “Randy Travis has recorded the perfect country album…again.”

These programs are made possible, in part, by grants from the Metropolitan Nashville
Arts Commission and by an agreement between the Tennessee Arts Commission and the
National Endowment for the Arts.
With the purchase of a Museum membership ($25/adults and $10/youth), visitors can
attend most public programs free of charge for one year. Museum memberships also
include one year of unlimited admission to the Museum, discounts in the Museum Store,
SoBro Grill
SM
and Hatch Show Print, and more.
Accredited by the American Association of Museums, the Country Music Hall of Fame®
and Museum is operated by the Country Music Foundation, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3)
educational organization chartered by the state of Tennessee in 1964. The Museum’s
mission is the preservation of the history of country and related vernacular music
rooted in southern culture.
With the same educational mission, the Foundation also operates CMF Records, the
Museum’s Frist Library and Archive, CMF Press, Historic RCA Studio B, and Hatch Show
Print.
More information about the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is available at
www.countrymusichalloffame.com
or by calling (615) 416-2001.

Always and Forever...an RT Fan
Linda and guide, Greg

Linda,

Thanks for this post about Randy's visit to the Country Music Hall of Fame. I know where I will be on November 7th. I am counting down the days. Sorry you won't be able to join us, maybe next time.

Thanks again.

RTFan2006

That would be cool to be there, but I will not be able to go to it either. I am on the opposite side of the country and I have other things going on the next day, November 8th. Should be a lot of fun for anyone who can attend. I would have gone if I were able to. Maybe next time if he does it again, and if I take another trip back to Nashville. I wonder if the interview part will be on CMT or GAC?

Yes, thank you so much for reminding me that i can't make it (lol). I wish I could be there but at least he'll be here on 10/26 so that is something to look forward to anyway.

Always and Forever...an RT Fan
Linda and Guide, Greg

So you're going too, Linda? I'm in the 3rd row. I'll look for you and Greg. I can hardly stand it as the time draws near. Woooooooooohooooooo!!!! cowwoman60 (denise)

Yes, the planis for me to be there; wouldn't miss Randy for the world.

Counting down the days
9 days, 11 hours, 49 minutes and 52 seconds as of this writing.

Always and Forever...An RT Fan
Linda and Guide, Greg

Bet Randy will be so happy to see you two or three as the case may be.Wonder if he will be as Happy to see me ! I shall be there look for me.!!