Garth Brooks took a moment to honor country music legend Randy Travis during his live CBS special Friday night. During his one man show, Brooks covered Travis’ hit song “Digging Up Bones.”
During Brook’s live CBS show, the showman took the audience through decades of his musical influences, so of course the great Randy Travis’ name was brought up. Brooks recalled one special memory when Travis learned that one of his records was a hit on the pop charts.
Travis was also honored during last Friday’s George Jones tribute show, when Jon Voight changed the focus of the show:
“I’m so deeply honored to be in the church of Jones with you all. George Jones had a good friend who was really all of our good friend, and that is Randy Travis. And Randy is going through a great challenge as we speak, and he’s making great strides. And as we know the most important thing, the most important thing to a person’s recovery is their will to recover, and I feel that with all our love and prayers Randy will receive that energy and perhaps, perhaps a miracle may be shown.I know Randy is going to be listening to this. He’s going to be watching this so we have an opportunity to speak to him. Let’s make a human chain of love for Randy. Hold the hand of the person next to you, and…we’ll shout Randy’s name. He’s not too far away from here, he can probably hear us from this building.”
Travis, himself, performed a touching tribute to his influence George Jones on his latest record. Travis told the Chicago Sun-Time:
“Both of us are obviously just country boys who came up through years of playing at nightclubs before actually having a record deal. We were both, no doubt, traditionalists all the way through. And I learned so much about singing from George Jones just by listening to him. There was a stretch of years where every hit he had, I was learning them to sing in clubs…I had a request through Warner Brothers to record the song as a tribute to George Jones, and after listening to it, I wanted to very much. It’s just a wonderful piece of writing. And what I wanted to accomplish by doing it is simply what it is--a tribute to George. Many people in this business will say that he’s the greatest country singer that ever lived, and I agree. I thought a lot of him.”
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