Trivia / Travis Tritt

• Chart Displacement: Many of his most-famous songs got stuck at #2, most notably "It's a Great Day to Be Alive", along with "I'm Gonna Be Somebody", "Here's a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)", and "The Whiskey Ain't Workin'". Other famous songs that didn't make it to the top include "Put Some Drive in Your Country" (#28), "T-R-O-U-B-L-E" (#13), "Take It Easy" (#21). The former two were likely polarizing due to their harder rock sound, while the latter was from a tribute album and was not heavily promoted.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Category 5 Records closed not long after The Storm was issued, so the album has become very hard to find, even after Tritt re-released it independently in 2013.
• Old Shame: According to his autobiography, Tritt didn't like "Country Club" because he didn't think it fit his style.
• Production Posse: His first four albums had multiple overlapping musicians, including backing vocalists Dana McVicker and Dennis Locorriere, bassist Mike Brignardello, guitarists Richard Bennett and Wendell Cox (also a longtime member of Tritt's road band), and drummer Steve Turner. All four were produced by Gregg Brown, with several songs written by Jill Colucci, Stewart Harris, Marty Stuart, and Tritt himself.
• Technology Marches On: "Here's a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)". Payphones went up to 35 and then 50 cents by the end of the 1990s, and soon afterward, they became obsolete thanks to cell phones.
• Troubled Production: The Storm. Tritt tried to sue Category 5 Records for lying about the competence of its staff, along with allegations that they had spoken badly of him to other labels and fired most of the staff before releasing the second single. The label closed in early 2008, due in part to the owner committing wire fraud.

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