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Travis Tritt - My Honky Tonk History (CD)

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Album Details: My Honky Tonk History

Release Date:08/30/2004
Label:Sony
UPC:827969208427

User Reviews: My Honky Tonk History

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    Die Hard Travis does it again and again

    By AstridM  Dec 22, 2004

    Pros: The music is not a sell out

    Cons: Girls Gone Wild

    This is an awesome recording. The tear jerker "I See Me", the fun song "Monkey Around", the spirited duet with Jphn Mellencamp, and the additional of Gretchen Wilson on vocals just really make the CD. Tritt vocals are strong an...d passionate on each track. Love you Travis. Read more Less

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    travis still has it

    By gary  Aug 22, 2004

    Pros: hes a seasoned vet

    Cons: none

    my honky tonk history is one of the best albums of the year.Travis has only got better with age.he is no flash in the pan one hit wounder every song could be a hit infact girls gone wild could be the worst song on the hole c.d. this is a must have

Pro Reviews: My Honky Tonk History

  • All Music Guide

    It's difficult to believe that Travis Tritt has been kicking it form Nash Vegas for nearly 15 years. For most of that time, Tritt has been remarkably consistent. He has espoused his own vision of outlaw country since the beginning. While marketed as one of the first "new traditionalists" and then refashioned as a progenitor of "young country," Tritt has followed his own redneck way throughout and for the most part made the records he wanted to make. My Honky Tonk History, is another chapter, though this one rocks pretty hard. Coproduced with Billy Joe Walker, Tritt assembled a stellar cast of pickers including Reggie Young, Pat Buchanan, Brent Mason, Pig Robbins and Eric Darken in a very large cast for this date as well as some special guests. The title track opens the set with a rollicking firebrand and burning electric guitars all but covering a lone banjo that stands in for tradition. It's a juxtaposition that works, since Tritt's celebration of a hungry life of hustling is timele...ss. "Too Far to Turn Around," is a bluesy dobrofueled ballad that is lean and mean, with Gretchen Wilson (one of the song's three writers) guesting on backing vocals. The intro to "What You Say," feels like a track off John Mellencamp's Lonesome Jubilee, but perhaps that's because Mellencamp duets with Tritt here on this workingclass anthem. It's easily the best cut on the set, and the two singers are particularly suited to one another as electric guitars, mandolins, fiddles, a B3, and Béla Fleck's banjo crisscross in a swirl of rocking countrysoul. Honky tonk music proper enters the fray in Philip Claypool's "Circus Leaving Town," a modern take on the music that made the careers of George Jones and Ray Price. Texas RB meets the country bar's sawdust floor in "Monkey Around," written by Delbert McClinton, Benmont Tench, and Gary Nicholson. It's greasy, raucous, and freewheeling with killer piano lines by Robbins. Of the ballads, slick as it is, Tritt's and Marty Stuart's "We've Had It All," works well. Tritt brings the emotion in the tune right upfront and sings with conviction and grace, but the whining pedal steel in "Small Doses" makes the slow step of this lowdown country tearjerker really stand out. Tritt's protagonist is a man on a barstool talking to himself, trying to buoy his courage to face the empty space left by a longgone lover. In all, My Honky Tonk History is a solid, surevoiced outing from an enduring and committed artist. Bravo. - Thom Jurek, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Travis Tritt

Travis Tritt was one of the leading new country singers of the early '90s, holding his own against Garth Brooks, Clint Black, and Alan Jackson. He was the only one not to wear a hat and the only one to dip into bluesy Southern rock. Consequently, he developed a gutsy, outlaw image that distinguished him from the pack. Throughout the early '90s, he had a string of platin... Read more