“Where That Came From” was released in early May
Randy Travis woke up this weekend for his morning coffee in Oregon where he is preparing for a stroke awareness fundraiser and for the first time in nearly two decades, found himself on the Billboard Country Airplay charts. “Where That Came From,” released on May 3rd via Warner Music Nashville, debuted on the chart at No. 45 thanks to country radio’s warm embrace of that signature voice that changed a generation – Randy Travis.
The song received over 3.3 million first-week global streams with an astounding 82% of those organic, signaling fan appreciation and positive reception hearing the Country Music Hall of Fame member’s voice on new music again.
With the help of two amazing songwriters in John Scott Sherrill and Scotty Emerick, Travis’ longtime producer Kyle Lehning, the musicians who helped make his songs so iconic for decades of recording and special guest vocalist James Dupré providing a new musician credit “vocal bed,” and a revolutionary AI-powered voice model, Randy Travis recorded his first song in over a decade.
The Grammy Award-winning Grand Ole Opry member has had limited speech for over a decade, after surviving a devastating stroke in 2013 that left him with aphasia.
After the Oregon event, Travis will fly home to Dallas to present at the ACM Awards on Thursday and then to Abilene and Greenville, Texas where he and his original band along with guest vocalist James Dupré will present the More Life Tour, a musical journey through Travis’ catalog of hits with video highlights from a legendary career in music, film and television. A busy schedule that signifies the 65-year-old country icon has a lot of life left to live and thoroughly enjoys traveling, engaging with fans and participating in the genre he’s dedicated his life to – country music.
