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2	A CountryMusic singer known for his gruff appearance and Southern rock influences.
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4	James Travis Tritt (born 1963) grew up in Marietta, Georgia, performing locally before putting together a demo tape that was submitted to Creator/WarnerBrosRecords. Under their contract, he was to record six songs, and would not be signed for a full album unless one of the six became a hit. That first song, "Country Club", went on to become a Top 10 hit, and led off his album of the same name. Throughout the 1990s, he had a string of five consecutive platinum albums, which were dominated by his SignatureStyle: impassioned, lush ballads such as "Anymore", "Foolish Pride", and "Can I Trust You with My Heart"; twangy traditional honky-tonk such as "The Whiskey Ain't Workin'" and "I'm Gonna Be Somebody"; and hard-driving Southern rock such as "Put Some Drive in Your Country" and "T-R-O-U-B-L-E". Unlike his contemporaries, he wore long hair and didn't sport a cowboy hat, and many critics noted his ability to shift seamlessly between such styles.
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6	Although his style became somewhat outmoded after the TurnOfTheMillennium, he continued to record, switching to Creator/ColumbiaRecords for a trio of albums between 2000 and 2004. The first of these saw a momentary resurgence with the ballad "Best of Intentions" and the iconic "It's a Great Day to Be Alive", but the rest fared poorly. Tritt's last album was ''The Storm'', issued in 2007 on Category 5 Records, which closed soon afterward.
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8	Tritt is a frequent collaborator of country/bluegrass musician Marty Stuart, most famously on their 1991 duet "The Whiskey Ain't Workin'". He has also worked with Little Feat, Mark O'Connor, Music/PattyLoveless, and Creator/BillEngvall among others.
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10	!Albums
11	* ''Country Club'' (1989)
12	* ''It's All About to Change'' (1991)
13	* ''T-R-O-U-B-L-E'' (1992)
14	* ''A Travis Tritt Christmas: Loving Time of the Year'' (1992)
15	* ''Ten Feet Tall and Bulletproof'' (1994)
16	* ''Greatest Hits: From the Beginning'' (1995)
17	* ''The Restless Kind'' (1996)
18	* ''No More Looking Over My Shoulder'' (1998)
19	* ''Down the Road I Go'' (2000)
20	* ''Strong Enough'' (2002)
21	* ''My Honky Tonk History'' (2004)
22	* ''The Storm'' (2007) (reissued in 2013 as ''The Calm After...'')
23	* ''Set in Stone'' (2021)
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25	!Tropes present in his work:
26	* AnswerSong: "Strong Enough to Be Your Man" is one to Music/SherylCrow's "Strong Enough".
27	* ArtisticLicenseGeography: "Modern Day Bonnie and Clyde" begins in Johnson City, Tennessee, but the chorus has the line "It's a long way to Richmond, rolling north on 95". Getting from Johnson City to Richmond is far shorter by taking I-81 to Staunton, Virginia, and then going east on I-64; to take I-95 would first require one to go south to Asheville, North Carolina (especially keeping in mind that, at the time of the song's release, I-26 had yet to be completed between Johnson City and Asheville) and then traversing all the way across North Carolina on I-40 before picking up I-95 near Raleigh.
28	* BreakupSong: "Here's A Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)" is his most famous one.
29	* ChristmasSongs: ''A Travis Tritt Christmas: Loving Time of the Year''. His cover of "[[Music/BuckOwens Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy]]" got some seasonal airplay.
30	* TheCityVsTheCountry: "Where Corn Don't Grow" and "Country Ain't Country" both deal with farmers lamenting the more city lifestyle.
31	* CommonMeter: "She's Coming Home with Me" is common meter double.
32	* CoverSong:
33	** "T-R-O-U-B-L-E", which was originally performed by Music/ElvisPresley.
34	** "Take It Easy", originally recorded by the Music/{{Eagles}}.
35	** "You Never Take Me Dancing" was originally written and performed by Music/RichardMarx.
36	* EverythingIsAnInstrument: "Dixie Flyer", the closing track of his debut album, features the percussionist playing a folding chair at one point.
37	* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Tritt was told by various contemporaries that "I'm Gonna Be Somebody" would not be successful because it didn't have a rhyme scheme.
38	* LyricalColdOpen: "The Whiskey Ain't Workin'"
39	* MassiveMultiplayerCrossover: "Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man" featured several guests performing background vocals on the last chorus: Music/BrooksAndDunn, T. Graham Brown, Music/GeorgeJones, Little Texas, Dana [=McVicker=] (a former solo singer who also did backing vocals on his early albums), Music/TanyaTucker, and Porter Wagoner.
40	* NewSoundAlbum: ''The Restless Kind'' had a more nuanced and softer sound than its predecessors, with more traditional country and bluegrass instead of Southern rock. It was also his first to be produced by someone other than Gregg Brown (namely, Don Was of Music/WasNotWas), and it was the first to feature Tritt playing guitar.
41	* OutlawCouple: "Modern Day Bonnie and Clyde" features a husband and wife who commit an unspecified crime and compare themselves to the famous outlaw couple.
42	* RockstarSong: "I'm Gonna Be Somebody" follows a musician named Bobby through his rise to the top.
43	* SmokingIsCool: "Smoke in a Bar":
44	-->Daddies were Daddies and Mamas were saints\
45	What preachers were preaching, you could take to the bank\
46	Kids played outside up until it turned dark\
47	When the world turned slower, and you could smoke in a bar
48	* SpellingSong: "T-R-O-U-B-L-E" spells out "hey good L-double O-K-I-N-G" to rhyme with the also spelled-out title.

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