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When he sings, it surely seems to. For his years, he has done a fair amount of living, not all of it above the law, and he has a voice that can really sidle around a lyric, sound smooth flowing and knowing at the same time. Forever and Ever, Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Trippin' Through The Crossroads | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

The heat is all in the suggestion and the styling, of course. On the surface, everything is on the up-and-up. If it weren't, Travis would not have scored the invitation last year to become the youngest male member of the Grand Ole Opry. The first time he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Trippin' Through The Crossroads | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

The Opry is well known to be the citadel of country conservatism -- an ornery character like Earle, more rock oriented and bolder lyrically, might use the word conformity -- but Travis will pay homage to tradition. Earle will joke about his "heavy-metal bluegrass" sound, and share, with Crowell and Griffith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Trippin' Through The Crossroads | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

And that's not for Travis. He speaks with reverence of the greats -- Patsy Cline and Hank Williams, Merle Haggard and George Jones, Lefty Frizzell and Jim Reeves -- but he has to be pressed to single out a contemporary. Even then, the answer doesn't come easily, and those he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Trippin' Through The Crossroads | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

It was likely that love that kept Randy's rocking peers reasonably respectful of his musical interests. The family was Baptist affiliated, but Daddy Harold Traywick, a hard-tempered turkey farmer and horse trader, and Mama Bobbie, a textile worker, bent the church rules a little bit and had the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Trippin' Through The Crossroads | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

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