Editing Travis Tritt

{{short description|American country musician (born 1963)}}
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| name              = Travis Tritt
| image             = Travis Tritt concert 1-18-2014.jpg
| caption           = Tritt performing in 2014
| background        = solo_singer
| birth_name        = James Travis Tritt<ref name="AllMusic">{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p1848|pure_url=yes}}|title=Travis Tritt biography|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=September 22, 2010}}</ref>
| birth_date        = {{Birth date and age|1963|02|09}}
| birth_place       = [[Marietta, Georgia]], U.S.
| instrument        = Vocals, guitar
| genre             = {{hlist|[[Country music|Country]]|[[country rock]]|[[outlaw country]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1996/08/28/country-musics-new-pair-of-outlaws/11d095f0-9160-4d7c-95fb-fc7c60611b22/ |title= COUNTRY MUSIC'S NEW PAIR OF OUTLAWS |last=Himes |first=Geoffrey |date=August 28, 1996|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=2023-07-25 |quote=Tritt was an outsider, playing a mix of Southern rock and outlaw country in Atlanta bar bands before signing a record deal.}}</ref>|[[southern rock]]<ref name="Saenger">{{cite web|url=https://www.pnj.com/story/entertainment/2020/01/23/travis-tritt-performing-solo-acoustic-show-saenger/4546802002/|title=Travis Tritt performing solo acoustic show at Saenger|author=Stephens, Erin|date=January 23, 2020|newspaper=Pensacola News Journal|access-date=January 30, 2020}}</ref>}}
| occupation        = Singer, songwriter
| years_active      = 1987–present
| spouse = {{marriage|Karen Ryon|1982|1984|end=divorce}}<br>{{marriage|Jodi Barnett|1984|1989|end=divorce}}<br>{{marriage|Theresa Nelson|1997}}
| label             = {{hlist|[[Warner Records|Warner Bros.]]|[[Columbia Records|Columbia]]|[[Category 5 Records|Category 5]]|Post Oak|[[Nick Gross#Big Noise|Big Noise]]}}
| website           = {{URL|travistritt.com}}
}}

''' James Travis Tritt''' (born February 9, 1963)  is an American [[country music|country]] singer-songwriter. He signed to [[Warner Bros. Records]] in 1989, releasing seven studio albums and a greatest hits package for the label between then and 1999. In the 2000s, he released three studio albums on [[Columbia Records]] and one for the now-defunct [[Category 5 Records]]. Seven of his albums (counting the ''Greatest Hits'') are [[music recording sales certification|certified platinum]] or higher by the [[Recording Industry Association of America]] (RIAA); the highest-certified is 1991's ''[[It's All About to Change]]'', which is certified triple-platinum. Tritt has also charted more than 40 times on the [[Hot Country Songs]] charts, including five number ones—"[[Help Me Hold On]]", "[[Anymore (Travis Tritt song)|Anymore]]", "[[Can I Trust You with My Heart]]", "[[Foolish Pride (Travis Tritt song)|Foolish Pride]]", and "[[Best of Intentions]]"—and 15 additional top-10 singles. Tritt's musical style is defined by mainstream country and [[Southern rock]] influences.

He has received two [[Grammy Awards]], both for [[Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals|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. He has received four awards from the [[Country Music Association]] and has been a member of the [[Grand Ole Opry]] since 1992.

==Early life==
James Travis Tritt was born on February 9, 1963, in [[Marietta, Georgia]], to James and Gwen Tritt.  He first took interest in singing after his church's Sunday school choir performed "[[Everything Is Beautiful]]".<ref>Tritt and Bane, p. 2</ref> He received his first guitar at age eight and taught himself how to play it; in the fourth grade, he performed "[[Annie's Song]]" and "[[King of the Road (song)|King of the Road]]" for his class, and later got invited to play for other classrooms in his school.<ref>Tritt and Bane, p. 3</ref> At age 14, his parents bought him another guitar, and he learned more songs from his uncle, Sam Lockhart.<ref>Tritt and Bane, p. 4</ref> Later on, Tritt joined his church band, which occasionally performed at other churches nearby.<ref name="thirteen">Tritt and Bane, p. 13</ref>

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 with whom he had broken up.<ref>Tritt and Bane, p. 17</ref> He performed the song for his friends, one of whom complimented him on his songwriting skills.<ref>Tritt and Bane, p. 20</ref> He also founded a [[bluegrass music|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]]".<ref>Tritt and Bane, pp. 35–36</ref>

During his teenaged years, Tritt worked at a furniture store, and later as a supermarket clerk. He lived with his mother after his father and she divorced; they remarried when he was 18.<ref name="thirty-nine">, Tritt and Bane, pp. 39–41</ref> He 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.<ref>Tritt and Bane, p. 46</ref> 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.<ref name="AllMusic"/>

Through the assistance of [[Warner Bros. Records]] executive Danny Davenport, Tritt began making [[demo (music)|demonstration recordings]] (demos). The two worked together for the next several years, eventually putting together a demo album called ''Proud of the Country''.<ref name="AllMusic"/><ref>Tritt and Bane, p. 64</ref> Davenport sent the demo to Warner Bros. representatives in Los Angeles, who in turn sent the demo to their Nashville division, which signed Tritt in 1987.<ref name="stabler">{{cite book|last1=Stambler|first1=Irwin|last2=Stambler|first2=Lyndon|last3=Laudon|first3=Grelon|title=Country music: the encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d18K8QWcEo8C&q=%22travis+tritt%22&pg=PA500|year=1997|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=0-312-26487-9}}</ref> Davenport also helped Tritt find a [[talent manager]], Ken Kragen. At first, Kragen was not interested in taking an "entry-level act", but decided to sign on as Tritt's manager after Kragen's wife convinced him.<ref>Tritt and Bane, p. 102</ref>

==Musical career==

===1989–1991: ''Country Club''===
Tritt's contract with Warner Bros.  meant that he was signed to record six songs, and three of them would be released as singles. According to the contract, he would not be signed on for a full album unless one of the three singles became a hit.<ref name="stabler" /><ref>Tritt and Bane, p. 94</ref> His first single was "[[Country Club (song)|Country Club]]". Recorded in late 1988 and released on August 7, 1989,<ref>Tritt and Bane, p. 98</ref> the song spent 26 weeks on the [[Hot Country Singles & Tracks]] charts, peaking at number nine.<ref name="whitburn">{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|publisher=Record Research, Inc|year=2008|pages=427–428|isbn=978-0-89820-177-2}}</ref> It was the title track to his 1990 debut album ''[[Country Club (album)|Country Club]]'', produced by Gregg Brown. The month of its release, Tritt burst a blood vessel on his vocal cords, and had to take vocal rest for a month.<ref name="stabler" /> His second single, "[[Help Me Hold On]]", became his first number-one single in 1990.<ref name="whitburn"/> The album's third and fifth singles, "[[I'm Gonna Be Somebody]]" and "[[Drift Off to Dream]]", respectively, peaked at numbers two and three on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts, and number one on the Canadian ''[[RPM (magazine)|RPM]]'' country charts;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.1316&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=uvsk2ptt6nbkarbs9e98rh1n34|title=RPM Country Tracks for August 25, 1990|work=RPM|access-date=September 25, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?brws_s=1&file_num=nlc008388.1526&type=1&interval=24&PHPSESSID=05ij8b9g2celva9nckkrvfs936|title=RPM Country Tracks for May 25, 1991|work=RPM|access-date=September 25, 2010}}</ref> "I'm Gonna Be Somebody" also went to number one on the U.S. country singles charts published by ''[[Radio & Records]]''.<ref name="stabler" /> "[[Put Some Drive in Your Country]]", which was released fourth, peaked at 28 on Hot Country Songs.<ref name="whitburn"/> ''Country Club'' was [[music recording sales certification|certified platinum]] by the [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]] in July 1991 for shipments of one million copies, and no medals since in 1996.<ref name="riaa">{{cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH_RESULTS&artist=Travis%20Tritt&format=ALBUM&go=Search&perPage=50|title=Search results for Travis Tritt|work=[[Recording Industry Association of America]]|access-date=September 22, 2010}}</ref> In 1990, he won the Top New Male Artist award from ''Billboard''.<ref name="opry">{{cite web|url=http://www.opry.com/artists/t/Tritt_Travis.html|title=Travis Tritt Biography|work=[[Grand Ole Opry]]|access-date=September 23, 2010}}</ref> The [[Country Music Association]] (CMA) also nominated him for the Horizon Award (now known as the New Artist Award),<ref name="stabler" /> which is given to new artists who  have shown the most significant artistic and commercial development from a first or second album.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cmaawards.com/about/overview.aspx|title=About the awards|work=Country Music Association|access-date=September 26, 2010}}</ref>

[[Brian Mansfield]] of [[AllMusic]] gave the album a positive review, saying, "Put Some Drive in Your Country" paid homage to Tritt's influences, but that the other singles were more radio-friendly.<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r94384|pure_url=yes}}|title=''Country Club'' review|last=Mansfield|first=Brian|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=September 23, 2010}}</ref> Giving the album a B-minus, [[Alanna Nash]] of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' compared Tritt's music to that of [[Hank Williams, Jr.]] and [[Joe Stampley]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,316906,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091221043456/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,316906,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 21, 2009|title=We review new music from Travis Tritt, Kris Kristofferson, Alan Jackson, and more|last=Nash|first=Alanna|date=March 16, 1990|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|access-date=September 23, 2010}}</ref>

===1991–1992: ''It's All About to Change''===
In 1991, Tritt received a second Horizon Award nomination, which he won that year.<ref name="opry"/> He also released his second album, ''[[It's All About to Change]]''. The album went on to become his best-selling one, with a triple-platinum certification from the RIAA for shipments of three million copies.<ref name="riaa"/> All four of its singles reached the top five on the country music charts. "[[Here's a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)]]" and the [[Marty Stuart]] duet "[[The Whiskey Ain't Workin']]", respectively, the first and third singles, both reached number two, with the number-one "[[Anymore (Travis Tritt song)|Anymore]]" in between. "[[Nothing Short of Dying]]" was the fourth single, with a peak at number four on ''Billboard'';<ref name="whitburn"/> both "The Whiskey Ain't Working" and it went to number one on ''Radio & Records''.<ref name="stabler"/> "Bible Belt", another cut from the album (recorded in collaboration with [[Little Feat]]), appeared in the 1992 film ''[[My Cousin Vinny]]'' (the lyrics for the song, however, were changed for the version played in the movie to match the story line). Although not released as a single, it peaked at number 72 country based on unsolicited airplay and was the [[B side]] to "Nothing Short of Dying".<ref name="whitburn"/> "Bible Belt" was inspired by a youth pastor whom Tritt had known in his childhood.<ref>Tritt and Bane, pp. 12–13</ref>

Stuart offered "The Whiskey Ain't Workin' Anymore" to Tritt backstage at the CMA awards show, and they recorded it as a duet through the suggestion of Tritt's record producer, Gregg Brown.<ref>Tritt and Bane, p. 190</ref> The duet won both artists the next year's [[Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals]].<ref name="whitburn"/> Tritt and Stuart charted a second duet, "[[This One's Gonna Hurt You (For a Long, Long Time)]]", which went to number seven in mid-1992 and appeared on Stuart's album ''[[This One's Gonna Hurt You]]''.<ref name="whitburn"/> This song won the 1992 CMA award for Vocal Event of the Year.<ref name="opry"/>

In June 1992, 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".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lTkpAAAAIBAJ&pg=3077,2956775&dq=travis-tritt+billy-ray-cyrus+statement&hl=en|title=Tritt pans Cyrus tune, video|date=June 12, 1992|work=Sun Journal|access-date=December 2, 2010}}</ref> The following January, Cyrus responded at the [[American Music Awards]] by referring to Tritt's "Here's a Quarter".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=i9srAAAAIBAJ&pg=1859,2275018&dq=travis-tritt+billy-ray-cyrus&hl=en|title=Cyrus gives Tritt no quarter|date=January 28, 1993|work=Kentucky New Era|access-date=December 2, 2010}}</ref> Tritt later apologized to Cyrus, but said that he defended his opinion on the song.<ref>Tritt and Bane, p. 161</ref>

===1992–1993: ''T-R-O-U-B-L-E'' and ''A Travis Tritt Christmas''===
Tritt and Stuart began their No Hats Tour in 1992.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/orlandosentinel/access/78488388.html?dids=78488388:78488388&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+09%2C+1992&author=Jim+Abbott+of+The+Sentinel+Staff&pub=Orlando+Sentinel&desc=TRAVIS+TRITT&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104003318/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/orlandosentinel/access/78488388.html?dids=78488388:78488388&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct+09,+1992&author=Jim+Abbott+of+The+Sentinel+Staff&pub=Orlando+Sentinel&desc=TRAVIS+TRITT&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 4, 2012|title=Travis Tritt|last=Abbott|first=Jim|date=October 9, 1992|work=[[The Orlando Sentinel]]|access-date=September 25, 2010}}</ref> In August of that same year, Tritt released the album ''[[T-R-O-U-B-L-E (album)|T-R-O-U-B-L-E]]''. Its first single was "[[Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man]]", a song written by [[Kostas Lazarides|Kostas]]. This song, which featured backing vocals from [[Brooks & Dunn]], [[T. Graham Brown]], [[George Jones]], [[Little Texas (band)|Little Texas]], [[Dana McVicker]] (who also sang backup on Tritt's first two albums), [[Tanya Tucker]] and [[Porter Wagoner]] on the final chorus, peaked at number five.<ref name="whitburn"/> Its follow-up, "[[Can I Trust You with My Heart]]", became Tritt's third ''Billboard'' number one in early 1993.<ref name="whitburn"/> The album's next three singles did not perform as well on the charts: the [[T-R-O-U-B-L-E (song)|title track]] (a cover of an [[Elvis Presley]] song<ref name="trouble"/>), peaked at 13, followed by "[[Looking Out for Number One (Travis Tritt song)|Looking Out for Number One]]" at number 11 and "Worth Every Mile" at number 30.<ref name="whitburn"/> ''T-R-O-U-B-L-E'' became the second album of his career to achieve double-platinum certification.<ref name="riaa"/> [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] of AllMusic thought that ''T-R-O-U-B-L-E'' followed too closely the formula of ''It's All About to Change'', but said that the songs showed Tritt's personality.<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r123596|pure_url=yes}}|title=''T-R-O-U-B-L-E'' review|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=September 23, 2010}}</ref> Nash gave the album a similar criticism, but praised the rock influences of "Looking Out for Number One" and the vocals on "Can I Trust You with My Heart".<ref name="trouble">{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/1992/09/04/t-r-o-u-b-l-e/|title=''T-R-O-U-B-L-E'' review|last=Nash|first=Alanna|date=September 4, 1992|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=September 23, 2010}}</ref>

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.<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r123617|pure_url=yes}}|title=''A Travis Tritt Christmas: Loving Time of the Year'' review|last=Mansfield|first=Brian|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=September 23, 2010}}</ref> He also joined the [[Grand Ole Opry]], a weekly stage show and radio broadcast specializing in country music performances,<ref>Tritt and Bane, p. 115</ref> and filled in for [[Garth Brooks]] at a performance on the [[American Music Awards]].<ref>Tritt and Bane, p. 179</ref> By year's end, Tritt and several other artists appeared on [[George Jones]]'s "[[I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair]]", which won all artists involved the next year's CMA Vocal Event of the Year award.<ref>Whitburn, p. 215</ref>

===1994–1995: ''Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof'' and ''Greatest Hits''===
In early 1994, after "Worth Every Mile" fell from the charts, Tritt charted at number 21 with a cover of the [[Eagles (band)|Eagles]]' "[[Take It Easy]]".<ref name="whitburn"/> He recorded this song for the tribute album ''[[Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles]]'' (released through Warner Bros.' [[Giant Records (Warner)|Giant Records]] division), which featured country music artists' renditions of Eagles songs.<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r188406|pure_url=yes}}|title=Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles|website=AllMusic|access-date=September 25, 2010}}</ref> When filming the music video for this song, Tritt requested that the band, which had been on hiatus for over 13 years, appear in it. This reunion inspired the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over Tour, which began that year.<ref name="stabler"/>

His fourth album, ''[[Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof]]'', was released that May. Its lead-off single, "[[Foolish Pride (Travis Tritt song)|Foolish Pride]]", went to number one, and the fourth single, "[[Tell Me I Was Dreaming]]", reached number two. In between these songs were the title track at number 22 and "[[Between an Old Memory and Me]]" (originally recorded by [[Keith Whitley]]<ref name="tenfeet"/>) at number 11.<ref name="whitburn"/> The album included two co-writes with [[Gary Rossington]] of [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]], and guest vocals from [[Waylon Jennings]] and Hank Williams, Jr. on the cut "Outlaws Like Us".<ref name="bulletproof">{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r202312|pure_url=yes}}|title=''Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof'' review|last=Mansfield|first=Brian|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=September 23, 2010}}</ref> The album achieved platinum certification in December of that year, and later became his third double-platinum album.<ref name="riaa"/> AllMusic reviewer Brian Mansfield said that Tritt was "most comfortable with his Southern rock/outlaw mantle" on it, comparing "Foolish Pride" favorably to "Anymore" and the work of [[Bob Seger]].<ref name="bulletproof"/> Alanna Nash praised the title track and "Tell Me I Was Dreaming" in her review for ''Entertainment Weekly'', but thought that the other songs were still too similar in sound to his previous works.<ref name="tenfeet">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,302220,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081122073730/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,302220,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 22, 2008|title=''Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof'' review|last=Nash|first=Alanna|date=May 23, 1994|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|access-date=September 23, 2010}}</ref>

1995's ''[[Greatest Hits: From the Beginning (Travis Tritt album)|Greatest Hits: From the Beginning]]'' included most of his singles to that point, as well as two new cuts: the [[Steve Earle]] composition "[[Sometimes She Forgets]]" and a cover of the pop standard "[[Only You (And You Alone)]]". The former was a top-10 hit at number seven, while the latter spent only eight weeks on the country charts and peaked at number 51.<ref name="whitburn"/> ''Greatest Hits'' was certified platinum.<ref name="riaa"/>

===1996–1997: ''The Restless Kind''===
In April 1996, Tritt and Stuart charted a third duet, "[[Honky Tonkin's What I Do Best (song)|Honky Tonkin's What I Do Best]]", which appeared on Stuart's [[Honky Tonkin's What I Do Best|album of the same name]] and peaked at 23 on the country charts. The song won both artists that year's Country Music Association award for Vocal Event, Tritt's third win in this category.<ref name="whitburn"/> The two began a second tour, the Double Trouble Tour, that year.<ref name="stabler" />

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-10 hit, a cover of Waylon Jennings's "[[Where Corn Don't Grow]]", which Tritt took to number six in late 1996. This song's chart run overlapped with that of "Here's Your Sign (Get the Picture)", a novelty release combining snippets of comedian [[Bill Engvall]]'s "Here are Your Sign" routines with a chorus sung by Tritt.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Reece|first=Doug|date=March 22, 1997|title=Engvall Follows 'Sign' to His Own Success|magazine=Billboard|page=9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6g4EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Here%27s+your+sign+get+the+picture%22&pg=PA9}}</ref> "Here's Your Sign (Get the Picture)" peaked at 29 on the country charts and 43 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|'' Billboard'' Hot 100]], accounting for Tritt's first entry on the latter chart.<ref name="whitburn"/> The other singles from ''The Restless Kind'' all failed to make top ten upon their 1997 release. "[[She's Going Home with Me]]" and "[[Still in Love with You (Travis Tritt song)|Still in Love with You]]" (previously the respective B-sides to "Where Corn Don't Grow" and "More Than You'll Ever Know") were the third and fifth releases, peaking at 24 and 23 on Hot Country Singles & Tracks. In between was the number 18 "[[Helping Me Get Over You]]", a duet with [[Lari White]], which the two co-wrote.<ref name="whitburn"/>

Unlike his previous albums, all of which were produced by Gregg Brown, Tritt produced ''The Restless Kind'' with [[Don Was]].<ref name="restless">{{cite web|url=http://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/cdreview.asp?xid=2807|title=''The Restless Kind'' review|last=Yates|first=Don|work=[[Country Standard Time]]|access-date=September 23, 2010}}</ref> 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. He also 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.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Price|first=Deborah Evans|date=July 20, 1996|title=Travis Tritt gets personal in marketing new WB set|magazine=Billboard|pages=7, 70|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xQcEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA70}}</ref> It received positive reviews from Thom Owens of AllMusic, who said that it was the most country-sounding album of his career.<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r239290|pure_url=yes}}|title=''The Restless Kind'' review|last=Owens|first=Thom|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=September 23, 2010}}</ref> Don Yates of ''[[Country Standard Time]]'' also praised it for having a more "organic" sound than Tritt's other albums.<ref name="restless"/>

===1998–1999: ''No More Looking over My Shoulder''===
In 1998, several other artists and he contributed to Stuart's "Same Old Train", a cut from the collaborative album ''[[Tribute to Tradition]]''; this song charted at number 59 on Hot Country Songs and won Tritt his second Grammy for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals.<ref>Whitburn, p. 367</ref> He also performed on [[Frank Wildhorn]]'s concept album of the musical ''[[The Civil War (musical)|The Civil War]]'', singing the song "The Day the Sun Stood Still".<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.playbill.com/news/article/100347-Gettysburg-Welcomes-Wildhorns-New-Civil-War-Musical-For-the-Glory|title= Gettysburg Welcomes Wildhorn's 'New' Civil War Musical, ''For the Glory''|date= June 15, 2006|access-date= March 13, 2010|work= Playbill|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101104230958/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/100347-Gettysburg-Welcomes-Wildhorns-New-Civil-War-Musical-For-the-Glory|archive-date= November 4, 2010}}</ref> By year's end, Tritt also released his final Warner Bros. album, ''[[No More Looking over My Shoulder]]''. It was his first of four consecutive albums he produced with [[Billy Joe Walker, Jr.]], who is a session guitarist, producer, and [[New Age music]]ian. The album was led off by the ballad "If I Lost You", which peaked at number 29 on the country charts and number 86 on the Hot 100.<ref name="whitburn"/> [[Michael Peterson (singer)|Michael Peterson]] (who recorded for Warner Bros.' [[Reprise Records|Reprise]] label at the time) co-wrote and sang backing vocals on the title track,<ref name="liner">{{cite AV media notes |title=No More Looking over My Shoulder |others=Travis Tritt |year=1998 |type=CD insert |publisher=Warner Bros. Records |id=47097}}</ref> which went to number 38 country in early 1999. The album's third and final single was a cover of [[Jude Cole]]'s "Start the Car" (previously the B side to "If I Lost You"), which peaked at number 52.<ref name="whitburn"/>

Late in 1999, Tritt recorded a cover of [[Hank Williams]]'s "[[Move It On Over (song)|Move It on Over]]" with [[George Thorogood]] for the [[King of the Hill (soundtrack)|soundtrack]] to the cartoon ''[[King of the Hill]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r432858|pure_url=yes}}|title=''King of the Hill'' review|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=September 22, 2010}}</ref> This cut peaked at number 66 on the country charts from unsolicited airplay.<ref name="whitburn"/>

===2000–2002: ''Down the Road I Go''===
Soon after leaving Warner Bros. Records, Tritt signed to [[Columbia Records]] and released the album ''[[Down the Road I Go]]'' in 2000.<ref name="AllMusic"/> The album's first release was "[[Best of Intentions]]", his fifth and final number-one hit on ''Billboard''.<ref name="whitburn"/> It was also his most successful entry on the Hot 100, where it reached number 27.<ref name="whitburn"/> The next two singles, "[[It's a Great Day to Be Alive]]" and "[[Love of a Woman]]", both peaked at number two on the country charts in 2001, followed by "[[Modern Day Bonnie and Clyde]]" at number eight. All three songs also crossed over to the Hot 100, respectively reaching peaks of 33, 39 and 55.<ref name="whitburn"/> Tritt wrote or co-wrote seven of the album's songs, including "Best of Intentions",<ref name="down"/> and collaborated with [[Charlie Daniels]] on two of them.<ref name="spotlight"/> "It's a Great Day to Be Alive" was originally recorded by [[Jon Randall]], whose version was to have been included on an unreleased album for [[BNA Records]] in the late 1990s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/randall_jon/bio.jhtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040427100401/http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/randall_jon/bio.jhtml|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 27, 2004|title=Jon Randall biography|work=[[Country Music Television|CMT]]|access-date=September 27, 2010}}</ref>

Maria Konicki Dinoia gave the album a positive review on AllMusic, saying that Tritt "hasn't lost his touch".<ref name="down">{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r501574|pure_url=yes}}|title=''Down the Road I Go'' review|last=Dinoia|first=Maria Konicki|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=September 23, 2010}}</ref> ''Country Standard Time'' also gave a positive review, saying that it showed Tritt's balance of country and rock influences.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.countrystandardtime.com/d/cdreview.asp?xid=2806|title=''Down the Road I Go'' review|last=Oliver|first=Kevin|work=Country Standard Time|access-date=September 23, 2010}}</ref> An uncredited review in ''Billboard'' magazine called "Best of Intentions" a "gorgeous ballad", comparing it favorably to his early Warner Bros. releases.<ref>{{cite magazine|date=July 1, 2000|title=Single reviews|magazine=Billboard|page=20|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BxAEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Travis+tritt%22&pg=PA20|last1=Nielsen Business Media|first1=Inc}}</ref>

===2002–2005: ''Strong Enough'' and ''My Honky Tonk History''===
In September 2002, Tritt released his second album on Columbia Records, ''[[Strong Enough (Travis Tritt album)|Strong Enough]]''. Its first single was "Strong Enough to Be Your Man" (an [[answer song]] to [[Sheryl Crow]]'s 1994 single "[[Strong Enough (Sheryl Crow song)|Strong Enough]]"<ref name="strong">{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r609508|pure_url=yes}}|title=''Strong Enough'' review|last=Ruhlmann|first=William|access-date=September 23, 2010}}</ref>) which reached number 13. The only other release was "Country Ain't Country", which peaked at 26 on the country charts.<ref name="whitburn"/> William Ruhlmann gave the album a generally positive review on AllMusic, saying that he considered its sound closer to mainstream country than Tritt's previous albums.<ref name="strong"/>

Also in 2002, Tritt performed on an episode of ''[[Crossroads (CMT TV series)|Crossroads]]'', a program on [[Country Music Television]], which pairs country acts with musicians from other genres for collaborative performances. He performed with [[Ray Charles]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://new.music.yahoo.com/travis-tritt/news/travis-tritt-to-join-ray-charles-for-cmts-crossroads--12052314|title=Travis Tritt To Join Ray Charles For CMT's 'Crossroads'|date=August 2, 2002|work=[[Yahoo!]] Music|access-date=September 25, 2010}}</ref> 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''. Respectively, these songs reached 51 and 50 on the country charts.<ref name="whitburn"/>

Tritt's 10th studio album, ''[[My Honky Tonk History]]'', was released in 2004. This album included three charting singles: "The Girl's Gone Wild" at 28, followed by the [[John Mellencamp]] duet "What Say You" at number 21 and "I See Me" at number 32.<ref name="whitburn"/> Other songs on the album included a cover of [[Philip Claypool]]'s "Circus Leaving Town" and songs written by [[Gretchen Wilson]], [[Benmont Tench]], and [[Delbert McClinton]].<ref name="jurek">{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r704046|pure_url=yes}}|title=''My Honky Tonk History'' review|last=Jurek|first=Thom|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=September 23, 2010}}</ref> Thom Jurek rated this album favorably, saying that it was a "solid, sure-voiced outing"; he also thought that "What Say You" was the best song on it.<ref name="jurek"/>

===2007–present: ''The Storm'', ''The Calm After...'' and ''Set in Stone''===
[[File:Travis-Tritt.jpg|thumb|Tritt performing in 2009]]
Tritt exited Columbia in July 2005, citing creative differences over ''My Honky Tonk History''.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Stark|first=Phyllis|date=May 7, 2005|title=Tritt Splits Columbia|magazine=Billboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nBQEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22travis+tritt%22+%22columbia%22&pg=PA41}}</ref> He signed to the independent [[Category 5 Records]] in February 2006, and served as the label's flagship artist.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.countrystandardtime.com/news/newsitem.asp?xid=112|title=Travis Tritt is flagship artist for new label|date=February 6, 2006|work=Country Standard Time|access-date=September 23, 2010}}</ref> In March 2007, a concert promoter in the Pittsburgh area sued Tritt, claiming he had committed to play a show, but then backed out and signed to play a competing venue. Tritt's manager denied he had ever signed a contract with the promoter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nashvillepost.com/news/2007/4/3/country_star_tritt_backed_out_on_show_lawsuit_claims|title=Country star Tritt backed out on show, lawsuit claims|date=April 3, 2007| access-date=September 22, 2010|publisher=NashvillePost.com}}</ref> Tritt released his first single for Category 5 in May 2007: a cover of the [[Richard Marx]] song "You Never Take Me Dancing".<ref name="cat5">{{cite web|url=http://www.countrystandardtime.com/news/newsitem.asp?xid=615|title=Travis Tritt releases first single for new label|date=May 17, 2007|work=Country Standard Time|access-date=September 23, 2010}}</ref> It was included on his only album for Category 5, ''[[The Storm (Travis Tritt album)|The Storm]]'', which ''[[American Idol]]'' judge [[Randy Jackson]] produced.<ref name="nydaily"/> The album featured a more [[rhythm and blues]] influence than Tritt's previous works.<ref name="cat5"/><ref name="nydaily">{{cite web|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/2007/11/04/2007-11-04_travis_tritt_is_stormin_the_charts.html|title=Travis Tritt is stormin' the charts|date=November 4, 2007|work=Daily News|location=New York|access-date=September 27, 2010}}</ref> "You Never Take Me Dancing" peaked at number 27 on the country charts; a second single, "Something Stronger Than Me", was released in October,<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Price|first=Deborah Evans|date=October 27, 2007|title=Single review for 'Something Stronger Than Me'|magazine=Billboard|page=61|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rw4EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22travis+tritt%22+%22something+stronger+than+me%22&pg=PA61}}</ref> but it did not chart. Category 5 closed in November 2007 after allegations that the label's chief executive officer, Raymond Termini, had illegally used [[Medicaid]] funds to finance it.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://new.music.yahoo.com/travis-tritt/news/travis-tritt-sues-record-label--51947704 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120710171245/http://new.music.yahoo.com/travis-tritt/news/travis-tritt-sues-record-label--51947704 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 10, 2012 |title=Travis Tritt sues record label |date=December 11, 2007 |publisher=Yahoo! Music |access-date=September 25, 2010 }}</ref> A month later, Tritt filed a $10&nbsp;million lawsuit against Category 5, because the label had failed to pay royalties on the album, and failed to give him creative control on ''The Storm''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.countrystandardtime.com/news/newsitem.asp?xid=1205&t=Travis_Tritt_sues_record_label |title=Travis Tritt sues record label |access-date=September 22, 2010 |date=December 11, 2007 |work=Country Standard Time}}</ref>

In October 2008, Tritt began an 11-date tour with Marty Stuart. On this tour, they performed acoustic renditions of their duets; Tritt also performed five solo shows.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.countrystandardtime.com/news/newsitem.asp?xid=2191|title=Tritt, Stuart reunite for November tour|date=October 13, 2008|work=Country Standard Time|access-date=September 25, 2010}}</ref> Tritt signed a management deal with Parallel Entertainment in December 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicrow.com/2010/12/travis-tritt-signs-with-parallel-entertainment/|title=Travis Tritt Signs With Parallel Entertainment|last=Skates|first=Sarah|work=Musicrow|access-date=December 7, 2010|date=December 7, 2010}}</ref> He continued to tour through to 2012 and into 2013, with most of his shows being solo acoustic performances.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.travistritt.com/tour|title=Tours|work=Travis Tritt official website|access-date=February 6, 2013}}</ref> Tritt acquired the rights to the songs on ''The Storm'' and reissued it via his own Post Oak label in July 2013 under the title ''The Calm After...''<ref>{{cite news|last=Wyland|first=Sarah|title=Travis Tritt Releases Duet with Daughter Tyler Reese|url=http://blog.gactv.com/blog/2013/05/24/travis-tritt-releases-duet-with-daughter-tyler-reese/|access-date=May 28, 2013|newspaper=[[Great American Country]]|date=May 24, 2013}}</ref> The re-release included two covers: the [[Patty Smyth]] and [[Don Henley]] duet "[[Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough]]", which he recorded as a duet with his daughter Tyler Reese,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.musicrow.com/2013/04/travis-tritt-duets-with-daughter-on-new-single/|title=Travis Tritt Duets with Daughter on New Single|last=Parker|first=Eric T.|date=April 24, 2013|work=[[MusicRow]]|access-date=August 5, 2013}}</ref> and [[Faces (band)|Faces]]' 1971 hit "[[Stay with Me (Faces song)|Stay with Me]]".

In 2019, Tritt was featured on the [[country rock]] hit "[[Outlaws & Outsiders]]" by [[Cory Marks]].<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Cory Marks 'Outlaws and Outsiders' Is the 2019 Hit That Couldn't Be Confined|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/country/8546917/cory-marks-outlaws-and-outsiders-interview|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|first=Dave|last=Brooks|date=December 20, 2019}}</ref> "Set in Stone" was released in 2021; recorded around that time in 2019 and 2020, the album was pushed back in early 2021. In 2024, Tritt featured on another Cory Marks song titled "(Make My) Country Rock".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.1057thepoint.com/music-news/sully-erna-mick-mars-guest-on-new-cory-marks-song-make-my-country-rock/|title=Sully Erna, Mick Mars guest on new Cory Marks song, "(Make My) Country Rock"|work=105.7 The Point|date=July 26, 2024|access-date=August 22, 2024}}</ref>

==Acting career==
Tritt's first acting role was alongside fellow country singer [[Kenny Rogers]] in the 1993 [[television film|made-for-television]] movie ''Rio Diablo''.<ref>Tritt and Bane, p. 195</ref> In 1994, Tritt made a special appearance as a bull rider in the movie ''[[The Cowboy Way (film)|The Cowboy Way]]'', which starred [[Woody Harrelson]], [[Kiefer Sutherland]], and [[Dylan McDermott]]. In 1995, he appeared in season six of the horror anthology series ''[[Tales from the Crypt (TV series)|Tales from the Crypt]]'' in the episode called "Doctor of Horror". He also starred in various guest roles on ''[[Yes, Dear]]'' as a rehabilitating criminal, on ''[[Diagnosis Murder]]'' as a terminally ill criminal taunting Steve Sloan ([[Barry Van Dyke]]), and on ''[[Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman]]'' as a gun slinger<ref>{{cite news |last=Patterson |first=Jim |date=June 8, 1994 |title=Singer Travis Tritt is country's newest outlaw and keeper of Tall tales |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/644675471/ |url-access=subscription |access-date=September 25, 2010 |work=[[Fort Worth Star-Telegram]] |pages=E1-2 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |agency=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref> The following year, Tritt appeared as himself in ''[[Sgt. Bilko (film)|Sgt. Bilko]]'', which starred [[Steve Martin]], [[Dan Aykroyd]], and [[Phil Hartman]];<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DTNB&s_site=detnews&f_site=detnews&f_sitename=Detroit+News%2C+The+%28MI%29&p_multi=DTNB&p_theme=gannett&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F7539DE04367913&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Country star Travis Tritt heads 'Down the Road'with a stop at the State Fair|date=August 23, 2001|work=[[The Detroit News]]|access-date=September 25, 2010}}</ref> Tritt's cover of "Only You (And You Alone)" appeared in the film's soundtrack.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sun_sentinel/access/18409201.html?dids=18409201:18409201&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Dec+15%2C+1995&author=Tribune+Media+Services&pub=South+Florida+Sun+-+Sentinel&desc=TRITT%27S+GREATEST+HITS+COLLECTION+A+BIG+HIT&pqatl=google|title=Tritt's Greatest Hits collection a big hit|date=December 15, 1995|work=Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel|access-date=September 25, 2010}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> He also appeared as himself in the 1997 film ''[[Fire Down Below (1997 film)|Fire Down Below]]'', starring [[Steven Seagal]] and [[Kris Kristofferson]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sandiego/access/1243645831.html?dids=1243645831:1243645831&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+08%2C+1997&author=David+Elliott&pub=The+San+Diego+Union+-+Tribune&desc=Seagal+makes+creeps+cringe+in+new+%60Fire+Down+Below%27&pqatl=google|title=Seagal makes creeps cringe in new 'Fire Down Below'|last=Elliott|first=David|date=September 8, 1997|work=[[The San Diego Union-Tribune]]|access-date=September 25, 2010}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> In 1999, Tritt appeared in ''Outlaw Justice'' with Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson. Tritt appeared in the film ''[[Blues Brothers 2000]]'' as one of the Louisiana Gator Boys, performing alongside [[B. B. King]], [[Eric Clapton]], and [[Bo Diddley]]. In 2001, he guest-starred in ''Elmo's World the Wild Wild West''. In September 2010, filming began on a movie called ''Fishers of Men'', a Christian film.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=13146349|title=Movie begins filming in Bainbridge|last=Golden|first=Leilani|date=September 13, 2010|publisher=WALB|access-date=September 25, 2010}}</ref>

==Musical styles==
Although he had been singing since childhood, Tritt said that he began to put "a little more soul" in his voice after his church band performed at an African-American church. He 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.<ref name="thirteen"/> While performing at these churches, he also took interest in gospel singers such as [[Andraé Crouch]].<ref>Tritt and Bane, p. 14</ref> Later on, he began listening to [[Southern rock]] acts such as [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]] through the recommendation of a friend,<ref>Tritt and Bane, pp. 29–30</ref> as well as the bluegrass music to which his uncle exposed him.<ref>Tritt and Bane, p. 34</ref> 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.<ref>Tritt and Bane, p. 63</ref> He cites country, rock and [[folk music|folk]] as his influences.<ref name="opry"/> Stephen Thomas Erlewine contrasts him with contemporaries [[Clint Black]] and [[Alan Jackson]], saying that Tritt was "the only one not to wear a [cowboy] hat and the only one to dip into bluesy Southern rock. Consequently, he developed a gutsy, outlaw image that distinguished him from the pack."<ref name="AllMusic"/> Zell Miller, in the book ''They Heard Georgia Singing'', said that Tritt has an "unerring ability to walk the narrow path between his country heritage and his rock leanings to the acclaim of the devotees of both."<ref>{{cite book|last=Miller|first=Zell|title=They Heard Georgia Singing|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7kv8EdRRkiQC&q=%22travis+tritt%22&pg=PA293|year=1996|publisher=0865545049|pages=293–294|isbn=9780865545045}}</ref>

Regarding his songwriting style and single choices, Tritt said that he writes "strictly from personal experiences" and does not follow a particular formula.<ref>Tritt and Bane, pp. 22-23</ref> He described "Here's a Quarter" as "one of the simplest three-chord [[waltz]]es I've ever written",<ref>Tritt and Bane, p. 25</ref> and said that label executives were reluctant to release it because they thought that it was a [[novelty song]].<ref>Tritt and Bane, p. 136</ref> Also, he was told that "I'm Gonna Be Somebody" would not be a hit because it did not contain any rhymes,<ref>Tritt and Bane, p. 23</ref> and fought the release of the song "Country Club" because he did not think that it fit his style.<ref>Tritt and Bane, pp. 137–138</ref> He also 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-10 hits from those albums.<ref>Tritt and Bane, p. 138</ref>

==Personal life==
Tritt married his high school sweetheart, Karen Ryon,<ref>{{cite book|last=Ryon|first=Karen|title=Keep the Memories, Bury the Love: My Life with Travis Tritt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6LVPT8292hEC&q=%22Travis+tritt%22+%22karen+tritt%22|year=1995|publisher=Eggman Publishing|isbn=1-886371-19-9|page=136}}</ref> in September 1982. They were married two years before divorcing.<ref>Tritt and Bane, pp. 41–42</ref> After going to court, Tritt was ordered to pay [[alimony]] to Karen for six months.<ref>Tritt and Bane, p. 44</ref> When he was 21, he married Jodi Barnett,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=AT&p_theme=at&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB7D0EBED114FAE&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|title=Travis Tritt, performing with T. Graham Brown|date=September 19, 1991|work=[[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]]|page=D1|access-date=September 25, 2010}}</ref> who was 33 at the time.<ref>Tritt and Bane, p. 66</ref> He divorced her shortly after signing with Warner Bros. in 1989; the divorce was finalized one month before "Country Club" was released. Tritt wrote the song "Here's a Quarter" the night he received his divorce papers.<ref>Tritt and Bane, p. 70</ref>

He married Theresa Nelson on April 12, 1997.<ref name="spotlight">{{cite web|url=http://countrymusic.about.com/library/blttrittfacts.htm|title=Spotlight on Travis Tritt|date=August 23, 2004|work=[[About.com]]|access-date=September 25, 2010}}</ref> They have one daughter,<ref name="spotlight"/> and two sons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://new.music.yahoo.com/travis-tritt/news/travis-tritt-wife-theresa-have-baby-boy--12176415|title=Travis Tritt, Wife Theresa Have Baby Boy|date=November 25, 2003|publisher=Yahoo! Music|access-date=September 25, 2010|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20120924073820/http://music.yahoo.com/travis-tritt/news/travis-tritt-wife-theresa-have-baby-boy--12176415|archive-date=September 24, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On May 18, 2019, he was in his tour bus when it was involved in a motor vehicle accident that took the lives of two people driving the wrong way on Veteran's Highway leaving [[Myrtle Beach, South Carolina]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2019/05/18/travis-tritts-tour-bus-involved-fatal-crash-south-carolina/3722561002/|last=Moniuszko|first=Sara |date=May 18, 2019|title=Country star Travis Tritt's tour bus involved in fatal crash in South Carolina|work=[[USA Today]]|access-date=May 18, 2019|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20190518211336/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2019/05/18/travis-tritts-tour-bus-involved-fatal-crash-south-carolina/3722561002|archive-date=May 18, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Political views and advocacy===
Tritt is a member of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] and supported [[George W. Bush]] for president in 2000. The two met in 1996 at the [[Republican National Convention]] in San Diego, California, where Tritt sang the national anthem.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cmt.com/news/1474994/tritt-open-about-political-leanings/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190627194834/http://www.cmt.com/news/1474994/tritt-open-about-political-leanings/|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 27, 2019|title=Tritt Open About Political Leanings|publisher=Country Music Television|access-date=September 29, 2019}}</ref> 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. "I'm a pro-gun guy. I'm an NRA ([[National Rifle Association of America]]) member, a life member as a matter of fact. I'm more for the belief of making the punishment tougher for the criminals to start with. I think that sends much more of an incentive for people to not commit crimes of any type than taking away guns. Because you take away guns, and the next thing you know, stabbing murders are going to increase." He adds that he is "definitely pro-death penalty".{{citation needed|date=June 2019}}

In September 2020, 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://meaww.com/who-is-travis-tritt-musician-backs-james-woods-block-resisters-why-is-he-blocking-urge-trumpers/|title=Who is Travis Tritt? Musician backs James Woods against 'resisters', here's why he's blocking people on Twitter|date=September 7, 2020 |publisher=Meaww|access-date=September 7, 2020}}</ref>

In April 2023, as a protest against [[Bud Light]] for supporting transgender influencer [[Dylan Mulvaney]], Tritt tweeted, "I will be deleting all Anheuser-Busch products from my tour hospitality rider."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Travistritt/status/1643765186736553984 |url=https://twitter.com/Travistritt/status/1643765186736553984 |access-date=April 18, 2023 |website=Twitter |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Holpuch |first=Amanda |date=April 14, 2023 |title=Behind the Backlash Against Bud Light's Transgender Influencer |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/business/bud-light-boycott.html |access-date=April 18, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

===Alleged paranormal encounters===
In October 2015, Tritt appeared on Lifetime Network's ''[[The Haunting of...]]'' program to discuss his experiences with the paranormal. Tritt stated that beginning in 1993, he was awakened "regularly" by disembodied voices in a vacation cabin that he owned – the voices spoke in an unknown dialect. His wife, Theresa, eventually heard them, as well. According to Tritt, "Over the years, these voices started happening on such a frequent basis that we were afraid to come up here." He also asserted that footprints once appeared in the carpet of the cabin, and imprints in the bedspread, that belonged to neither his wife nor him.

The show's host, Kim Russo, concluded that an African-American medicine man had been stabbed and beaten to death on the property, and the voices that Tritt was hearing belonged to the murderers' angry spirits. A title card in the program notes, "On August 14, 1875, a group of men killed a '[[Hoodoo (folk magic)|hoodoo]] doctor' close to the land where Travis' cabin was built." Russo believed that the hoodoo doctor's spirit also lingered on the property because it found a "kindred spirit" in Tritt.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170926095641/http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/the-haunting-of/season-4/episode-9]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3di96b|title=The Haunting Of S05E22 – Travis Tritt – video|website=Dailymotion.com|access-date=September 29, 2019}}</ref>

==Discography==
{{Main|Travis Tritt discography}}
'''Studio albums'''
*''Proud of the Country'' (1987)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/Travistritt/status/866469859089162242|title=It was released. It was my 1st album that was released prior to getting my first major label record deal.|first=Travis|last=Tritt|date=May 21, 2017}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=December 2019}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/Travis-Tritt-Proud-Of-The-Country/release/7784848|title=Travis Tritt – Proud of the Country|publisher=discogs|access-date=September 29, 2019{{cbignore}}}}</ref>
*''[[Country Club (album)|Country Club]]'' (1990)
*''[[It's All About to Change]]'' (1991)
*''[[T-R-O-U-B-L-E (album)|T-R-O-U-B-L-E]]'' (1992)
*''[[Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof]]'' (1994)
*''[[The Restless Kind]]'' (1996)
*''[[No More Looking over My Shoulder]]'' (1998)
*''[[Down the Road I Go]]'' (2000)
*''[[Strong Enough (Travis Tritt album)|Strong Enough]]'' (2002)
*''[[My Honky Tonk History]]'' (2004)
*''[[The Storm (Travis Tritt album)|The Storm]]'' (2007)
*'' The Calm After...'' (2013)
*''Set in Stone'' (2021)

'''''Billboard'' number-one singles'''
*"[[Help Me Hold On]]" (1990)
*"[[Anymore (Travis Tritt song)|Anymore]]" (1991)
*"[[Can I Trust You with My Heart]]" (1992{{spaced ndash}}1993)
*"[[Foolish Pride (Travis Tritt song)|Foolish Pride]]" (1994)
*"[[Best of Intentions]]" (2000)

==Awards and nominations==
=== Grammy Awards ===

{{awards table}}
|-
|rowspan=2| [[34th Grammy Awards|1992]]
|rowspan=2| "[[Here's a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)]]"
|[[Grammy Award for Best Male Country Vocal Performance|Best Male Country Vocal Performance]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[Grammy Award for Best Country Song|Best Country Song]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|rowspan=2| [[35th Grammy Awards|1993]]
|"[[Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man]]"
|Best Male Country Vocal Performance
|{{nom}}
|-
|"[[The Whiskey Ain't Workin']]"{{Ref|1|[A]}}
|rowspan=5| [[Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals|Best Country Collaboration with Vocals]]
|{{won}}
|-
|[[37th Grammy Awards|1995]]
|"[[The Devil Comes Back to Georgia]]"{{Ref|2|[B]}}
|{{nom}}
|-
|rowspan=2| [[39th Grammy Awards|1997]]
|"[[Honky Tonkin's What I Do Best (song)|Honky Tonkin's What I Do Best]]"{{Ref|1|[A]}}
|{{nom}}
|-
|''Hope: Country Music's Quest for a Cure''
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[41st Grammy Awards|1999]]
|"Same Old Train"{{Ref|3|[C]}}
|{{won}}
|}

=== American Music Awards ===

{{awards table}}
|-
|[[American Music Awards of 1991|1991]]
|Travis Tritt
|[[American Music Award for Favorite Country New Artist|Favorite Country New Artist]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|rowspan=2| [[American Music Awards of 1992|1992]]
|''[[It's All About to Change]]''
|[[American Music Award for Favorite Country Album|Favorite Country Album]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|"[[Here's a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)]]"
|[[American Music Award for Favorite Country Song|Favorite Country Single]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[American Music Awards of 2002|2002]]
|Travis Tritt
|[[American Music Award for Favorite Country Male Artist|Favorite Country Male Artist]]
|{{nom}}
|}

=== TNN/Music City News Country Awards ===

{{awards table}}
|-
|[[25th TNN/Music City News Country Awards|1991]]
|rowspan=2| Travis Tritt
|rowspan=2| Star of Tomorrow
|{{nom}}
|-
|rowspan=4| [[26th TNN/Music City News Country Awards|1992]]
|{{won}}
|-
|Travis Tritt and Marty Stuart
|Vocal Collaboration of the Year
|{{nom}}
|-
|"[[Here's a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)]]"
|Single of the Year
|{{nom}}
|-
|"[[Anymore (Travis Tritt song)|Anymore]]"
|Video of the Year
|{{nom}}
|-
|rowspan=2| [[27th TNN/Music City News Country Awards|1993]]
|Travis Tritt and Marty Stuart
|rowspan=2| Vocal Collaboration of the Year
|{{won}}
|-
|George Jones and Friends{{Ref|4|[D]}}
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[28th TNN/Music City News Country Awards|1994]]
|''[[Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles]]''
|Album of the Year
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[30th TNN/Music City News Country Awards|1996]]
|"[[Tell Me I Was Dreaming]]"
|Video of the Year
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[31st TNN/Music City News Country Awards|1997]]
|Travis Tritt and Marty Stuart
|rowspan=2| Vocal Collaboration of the Year
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[32nd TNN/Music City News Country Awards|1998]]
|Travis Tritt and Lari White
|{{nom}}
|}

=== Academy of Country Music Awards ===

{{awards table}}
|-
|[[26th Academy of Country Music Awards|1991]]
|Travis Tritt
|[[Academy of Country Music Award for New Male Artist of the Year|Top New Male Vocalist]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|rowspan=5| [[27th Academy of Country Music Awards|1992]]
|rowspan=2| "[[Here's a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)]]"
|Single Record of the Year
|{{nom}}
|-
|Song of the Year
|{{nom}}
|-
|''[[It's All About to Change]]''
|[[Academy of Country Music Award for Album of the Year|Album of the Year]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|"[[Anymore (Travis Tritt song)|Anymore]]"
|Video of the Year
|{{nom}}
|-
|rowspan=2| Travis Tritt and Marty Stuart
|rowspan=2| Top Vocal Duo of the Year
|{{nom}}
|-
|rowspan=3| [[28th Academy of Country Music Awards|1993]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|"[[Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man]]"
|Video of the Year
|{{nom}}
|-
|rowspan=2| Travis Tritt
|rowspan=2| [[Academy of Country Music Award for Entertainer of the Year|Entertainer of the Year]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|rowspan=3| [[29th Academy of Country Music Awards|1994]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|"[[Can I Trust You with My Heart]]"
|Song of the Year
|{{nom}}
|-
|''[[Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles]]''
|Album of the Year
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[31st Academy of Country Music Awards|1996]]
|"[[Tell Me I Was Dreaming]]"
|rowspan=2| Video of the Year
|{{nom}}
|-
|rowspan=2| [[32nd Academy of Country Music Awards|1997]]
|"[[More Than You'll Ever Know]]"
|{{nom}}
|-
|Travis Tritt and Marty Stuart
|Top Vocal Duo of the Year
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[34th Academy of Country Music Awards|1999]]
|"Same Old Train"{{Ref|3|[C]}}
|Top Vocal Event of the Year
|{{nom}}
|-
|rowspan=4| [[37th Academy of Country Music Awards|2002]]
|Travis Tritt
|[[Academy of Country Music Award for Male Artist of the Year|Top Male Vocalist of the Year]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|"[[It's a Great Day to Be Alive]]"
|Single Record of the Year
|{{nom}}
|-
|''[[Down the Road I Go]]''
|Album of the Year
|{{nom}}
|-
|"[[Out of Control Raging Fire]]"{{Ref|5|[E]}}
|Vocal Event of the Year
|{{nom}}
|}

=== Country Music Association Awards ===

{{awards table}}
|-
|[[1990 Country Music Association Awards|1990]]
|rowspan=2| Travis Tritt
|rowspan=2| [[Country Music Association Award for New Artist of the Year|Horizon Award]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|rowspan=2| [[1991 Country Music Association Awards|1991]]
|{{won}}
|-
|rowspan=2| "[[Here's a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)]]"
|[[Country Music Association Award for Single of the Year|Single of the Year]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|rowspan=5| [[1992 Country Music Association Awards|1992]]
|[[Country Music Association Award for Song of the Year|Song of the Year]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|"[[Anymore (Travis Tritt song)|Anymore]]"
|[[Country Music Association Award for Video of the Year|Video of the Year]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|"[[This One's Gonna Hurt You (For a Long, Long Time)]]"{{Ref|1|[A]}}
|[[Country Music Association Award for Musical Event of the Year|Vocal Event of the Year]]
|{{won}}
|-
|rowspan=2| Travis Tritt
|[[Country Music Association Award for Male Vocalist of the Year|Male Vocalist of the Year]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[Country Music Association Award for Entertainer of the Year|Entertainer of the Year]]
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[1993 Country Music Association Awards|1993]]
|"[[I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair]]"{{Ref|6|[F]}}
|rowspan=2| Vocal Event of the Year
|{{nom}}
|-
|rowspan=3| [[1994 Country Music Association Awards|1994]]
|"[[The Devil Comes Back to Georgia]]"{{Ref|2|[B]}}
|{{nom}}
|-
|''[[Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles]]''
|rowspan=2| [[Country Music Association Award for Album of the Year|Album of the Year]]
|{{won}}
|-
|''[[Rhythm, Country and Blues]]''
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[1996 Country Music Association Awards|1996]]
|"[[Honky Tonkin's What I Do Best (song)|Honky Tonkin's What I Do Best]]"{{Ref|1|[A]}}
|rowspan=2| Vocal Event of the Year
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[1999 Country Music Association Awards|1999]]
|"Same Old Train"{{Ref|3|[C]}}
|{{nom}}
|-
|[[2002 Country Music Association Awards|2002]]
|"[[Modern Day Bonnie and Clyde]]"
|Video of the Year
|{{nom}}
|}

{{Note|1|[A]}}<small>Nominated alongside [[Marty Stuart]]</small><br />{{Note|2|[B]}}<small>Nominated alongside Marty Stuart, [[Mark O'Connor]], [[Charlie Daniels]] and [[Johnny Cash]]</small><br />{{Note|3|[C]}}<small>Nominated alongside [[Clint Black]], [[Joe Diffie]], [[Merle Haggard]], [[Emmylou Harris]], [[Alison Krauss]], [[Patty Loveless]], [[Earl Scruggs]], [[Ricky Skaggs]], Marty Stuart, [[Pam Tillis]], [[Randy Travis]] and [[Dwight Yoakam]]</small><br />{{Note|4|[D]}}<small>[[George Jones]]' "Friends" also includes: [[Vince Gill]], [[Mark Chesnutt]], [[Garth Brooks]], Joe Diffie, [[Alan Jackson]], Pam Tillis, [[T. Graham Brown]], Patty Loveless and Clint Black</small><br />{{Note|5|[E]}}<small>Nominated alongside Patty Loveless</small><br />{{Note|6|[F]}}<small>Nominated alongside George Jones and Friends</small>

==Filmography==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
|-
| 1990
| ''[[Hee Haw]]''
| Himself
| One episode: "Episode No.&nbsp;22.12"
|-
| 1993
| ''Rio Diablo''
| Benjamin Taber
| TV movie
|-
| 1994
| ''[[The Cowboy Way (film)|The Cowboy Way]]''
| Himself
| 
|-
| 1994
| ''Following Her Heart''
| Himself
| TV movie
|-
| 1995
| ''[[Tales from the Crypt (TV series)|Tales from the Crypt]]''
| Charlie
| One episode: "Doctor of Horror"
|-
| 1995
| ''[[The Jeff Foxworthy Show]]''
| Himself
| One episode: "He's Making a List, Checking It Twice"
|-
| 1996
| ''[[Sgt. Bilko]]''
| Himself
| 
|-
| 1996
| ''[[Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman]]''
| Zachary Brett
| One episode: "Tin Star"
|-
| 1996
| ''A Holiday for Love''
| Sheriff Tom Uhl
| TV movie
|-
| 1997
| ''Fire Down Below''
| Himself
|-
| 1998 
| ''Blues Brothers 2000''
| Himself
|-
| 1999
| ''[[The Long Kill]]''
| Sheriff Dalton
| TV movie
|-
| 1999
| ''[[Diagnosis Murder]]''
| Kurt Fallon
| One episode: "Down Among the Dead Men"
|-
| 1999
| ''[[Touched by an Angel]]''
| Dan McConnell
| One episode: "Hearts"
|-
| 1999
| ''[[Arliss (TV series)|Arliss]]''
| "Cooter" McCoy
| One episode: "The Cult of Celebrity"
|-
| 2001
| ''[[Elmo's World]]''
| Himself
| One special: "Wild Wild West"
|-
| 2002
| ''[[CMT Crossroads]]''
| Himself
| Performed with [[Ray Charles]]
|-
| 2003
| ''[[King of the Hill]]''
| Walt (voice)
| One episode: "Livin' on Reds, Vitamin C and Propane"
|-
| 2004
| ''[[Yes, Dear]]''
| Hank
| One episode: "Greg and Jimmy's Criminals"
|-
| 2004
| ''[[Higglytown Heroes]]''
| Farmer Hero
| One episode: "Halloween Heroes"
|-
| 2004
| ''[[Celebrity Poker Showdown]]''
| Himself
| Two episodes; 2004–2005<br />"Tournament 2, Game 1"<br />"Tournament 5, Game 5"
|-
| 2005
|''[[2001 Maniacs]]''
|Gas station attendant
|
|-
| 2005
| ''[[Blue Collar TV]]''
| Himself
| One episode: "Dating"
|-
| 2008
| ''[[Battleground Earth]]''
| Himself
| One episode: "Fast Fuel"
|-
| 2008
| ''[[The Girls Next Door]]''
| Himself
| One episode: "Kentucky Fried"
|-
| 2011
| ''Fishers of Men''
| Eddie Waters
| ''post-production''
|-
| 2017
| ''[[Let There Be Light (2017 film)|Let There Be Light]]''
| Dr. Corey
|-
| 2018
| ''[[Forever My Girl]]''
| Walt
|
|}

== Notes ==
{{reflist}}

== See also ==
* [[Travis (chimpanzee)]], named after Tritt

== References ==
* {{cite book |title=10 Feet Tall and Bulletproof |last1=Tritt |first1=Travis |first2=Michael |last2=Bane |year=1994 |publisher=[[Warner Books]] |isbn=0-446-51847-6 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/10feettallbullet00trit }}

== External links ==
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* {{Official website}}
*{{AllMusic}}
* {{IMDb name}}

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