randy travis charged with DUI

[alocispepraluger102]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31749_162-57488993-10391698/randy-travis-charged-with-dwi-in-north-texas/

[Chuck Nessa]

Ugly mug shot.

[wesbed]

I have enjoyed Randy's music off & on through the years. More 'off' in recent years. More 'on' in the late 1980s.

However, the music stands apart from the man. He looks like trash, looks like he's not had a content life, mostly.

[Neal Pomea]

Country music got better for a little while, I think, when he was on top. I don't bother to listen anymore. Hope he can pull his life together. Sounds like a bitter breakup with his wife/manager.

[alocispepraluger102]

"Country music got better for a little while, I think, when he was on top. I don't bother to listen anymore. "

ditto here

[JSngry]

Get the local angle video!

http://www.nbcdfw.com/entertainment/music/Randy-Travis-Arrested-on-DWI-Charge-in-Tioga-165419146.html

[alocispepraluger102]

i'm not sure i've heard a country song THAT sad and i've been listening 60 years.

[JSngry]

Oh, it gets better!

http://www.nbcdfw.com/video/#!/entertainment/music/Police-Release-911-Call-in-Travis-Arrest/165545636

[BruceH]

You can't indulge so much bad production (particularly in recent years) without it having some bad personal repercussions.

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[slide_advantage_redoux]

Keepin' it real?

[sksmith66]

second arrest in less than a year and he was naked at the scene? sounds like he is hitting the sauce really hard

[BruceH]

"Country music got better for a little while, I think, when he was on top. I don't bother to listen anymore. "

ditto here

That's pretty much where I'm at, too. Early on, it seemed like he was part of a back-to-basics movement in country. Now however, country is...well I don't know what the fuck it is.

[Tom 1960]

"Country music got better for a little while, I think, when he was on top. I don't bother to listen anymore. "

ditto here

That's pretty much where I'm at, too. Early on, it seemed like he was part of a back-to-basics movement in country. Now however, country is...well I don't know what the fuck it is.

Dead silence is a hell of alot more appealing.

[sksmith66]

alt-country is pretty much the closest thing to "real" country music these days. the country stuff that is really popular is just pop music sang with a southern drawl. if you think country sucks go listen to some son volt, drive-by truckers, jason isbell, lucero, ryan bingham, justin townes earle, ryan adams, wilco, etc...

[wesbed]

Now however, country is...well I don't know what the fuck it is.

Ha!

I'm right there with you, my friend. I grew up with country music. However, where ever it has come is not where I have gone.

[slide_advantage_redoux]

When I want to hear country,. I dig out my Ernest Tubb, my Marty Robbins. Don Williams, Dwight Yoakum and a few others.

This new stuff is just cookie cutter, formulaic. what works before will work now shit. And most of the hits are all written by the same selct few. And a lot of the time, the band members are interchangeable on the hit CDs...same cats working with different big names.

Boring

[alocispepraluger102]

When I want to hear country,. I dig out my Ernest Tubb, my Marty Robbins. Don Williams, Dwight Yoakum and a few others.

This new stuff is just cookie cutter, formulaic. what works before will work now shit. And most of the hits are all written by the same selct few. And a lot of the time, the band members are interchangeable on the hit CDs...same cats working with different big names.

Boring

"When I want to hear country,. I dig out my Ernest Tubb, my Marty Robbins. Don Williams, Dwight Yoakum and a few others."

amen, brother douxy.

a few years ago, i listened as a successful nashville country pop song writer listed the criteria for the very specific demographics, words, and types of music the producer-artist types wanted. that stuff is as bland as common beer.

it is like using a recipe, sausage grinder, and canned ingredients to make sausage.

Edited August 15, 2012 by alocispepraluger102

[JSngry]

I'm waiting for something like a Randy Travis/Madlib joint that everybody digs and nobody bats an eye at, so if anybody's confused, it's probably me.

Is the wait almost over?

[rostasi]

Randy Travis allegedly in fight near Texas church.

[Soulstation1]

It's been a rough year for RT

[Chuck Nessa]

This is in Sangrey's neighborhood. Maybe he can report.

[JSngry]

If a man comes to my neighborhood to go to church naked, and then goes to the Valero to hit his girlfriend's boyfriend and then comes to my house to buy a pack of cigarettes, so long as he's not naked in front of my wife or daughter, I'm just gonna look the other way, even if it is Randy Travis.

Why? Because I've had the same courtesy extended to me by lesser men that Randy Travis. A man don't forget shit like that.