Randy Travis To Celebrate 40 Years Of ‘Storms Of Life’ At Special Nashville Palace Event
Randy Travis.
Randy Travis will celebrate 40 years since the release of his debut album Storms Of Life at a one-of-a-kind celebration at the Nashville Palace on June 3.
The celebration will kick off at 5 p.m. and will include live music throughout the evening, featuring a band led by longtime friends Steve and Becky Hinson. The general public can reserve free tickets here.
“In honor of the Storms of Life album and years of Randy Travis and The Nashville Palace, the front room will be renamed, forever and ever, The Randy Travis Room,” says Barrett Hobbs, owner of the Nashville Palace and grandson of John A. Hobbs.
The evening will be a full-circle moment for Travis, who in the late 1970s and early 1980s performed regularly at the Nashville Palace under his birth name Randy Traywick, and later under the stage name Randy Ray. The live album Randy Ray Live At The Nashville Palace, funded by John A. Hobbs, owner of the Palace, led to Travis’ longtime record deal and partnership with Warner Brothers’ Martha Sharpe and producer Kyle Lehning.
Storms of Life became the first debut country album to achieve Platinum status. His first No. 1 single, “On the Other Hand,” paved the way for his next standout track, “Digging Up Bones,” which spent two weeks at No. 1. Travis was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in December 1986, becoming one of the youngest members ever inducted at the time.
