Randy Travis To Celebrate 40th Anniversary As A Grand Ole Opry Member
(117) Country Music Hall of Fame member Randy Travis will celebrate his 40th Anniversary as a Grand Ole Opry member Friday, December 11. The special 40th Anniversary celebration will feature friends and fellow Opry members, including Josh Turner, Mark Wills, and Gary Mule Deer, as well as special guests Paul Overstreet, James Dupre, and more. The evening follows Travis's first original album release in 18 years, Same Old Way, on November 13.
Travis was first introduced on the Grand Ole Opry stage by Little Jimmy Dickens in March of 1986 while still a cook at the Nashville Palace. After the release of his massively successful debut album, Storms of Life, he was officially inducted as a member later that year on December 20, 1986 by Opry member Ricky Skaggs.
This year also marks the 40th anniversary of his three-time Multi-Platinum eight-week No. 1 debut album. Storms of Life made Travis the very first solo country artist to achieve a Platinum - and subsequent multi-Platinum - debut album. The album spent 100 weeks on the Billboard Top 200 chart and produced some of his signature hits including "On The Other Hand," "Diggin' Up Bones," "1982" and "No Place Like Home." Storms of Life catapulted him to several major award wins including the ACM Album of the Year, Single of the Year ("On The Other Hand"), Top New Male Vocalist and Top Male Vocalist as well as the CMA Horizon Award that same year as well as ending the year as a member of the Grand Ole Opry.
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