Travis Tritt

Travis Tritt wishes he had that quarter back.
Travis Tritt wishes he had that quarter back.

Ever wondered what happened to '80s piano-man cheeseball Richard "Right Here Waiting" Marx? Well, he shared the 2003 Song of the Year Grammy for co-writing Luther Vandross's "Dance With My Father," and, perhaps even odder, co-wrote two songs with Travis Tritt on the Georgia-born longhaired outlaw's 2007 LP The Storm. What's more, they're actually good — bluesy and funky, but very much still country. But that's not exactly new for Tritt. He may not be the hitmaker he was back in the early '90s, when songs like "Country Club," "The Whiskey Ain't Workin'," "Help Me Hold On," barrelhouse Elvis cover "T-R-O-U-B-L-E" and the brilliant kiss-off ballad "Here's a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)" competed with Garth Brooks and Alan Jackson for airplay and CMA hardware, but that's only because popular tastes have changed. Tritt hasn't, and this solo acoustic show should add an extra mouthful of grit to some of the orneriest, most outspoken songs of country's "New Traditionalist" era.

 
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