Album Info

Country Club

Country - 1990

Travis Tritt grew up singing gospel, bluegrass, and traditional country, and his naturally diverse talents made his debut album a... more

Tracklist

1

Country Club

3:10 min
2

I'm Gonna Be Somebody

4:04 min
3

Put Some Drive In Your Country

4:19 min
4

Help Me Hold On

4:00 min
5

Sign of the Times

5:17 min
6

Son of the New South

2:57 min
7

If I Were a Drinker

3:59 min
8

The Road Home

4:39 min
9

Drift Off to Dream

5:15 min
10

Dixie Flyer

6:03 min

About Country Club

Travis Tritt grew up singing gospel, bluegrass, and traditional country, and his naturally diverse talents made his debut album a smash in 1990. Hailing from Marietta, Ga., Tritt could easily play the lovable good old boy (“Country Club”) and then turn around and slay an audience with a genuine R&B tearjerker (“If I Were a Drinker”). Tritt’s crossover success was due to his ability to build bridges between opposing traits. He could be rural and cosmopolitan at the same time; he could be traditional and contemporary. He could even be black and white. Certainly Nashville wasn't accustomed to the funk-rock-country hybrid of “Put Some Drive in Your Country,” but Tritt made it seem as natural as the swift, banjo-inflected “Dixie Flyer.” He saw himself as a son of both Otis Redding and Waylon Jennings and never acted like there was anything contradictory about it. A line from “Son of the New South” epitomized his philosophy: “I hold on to some old ways, I ain't scared to try the new/But when it comes to what I change, I'll be the one to choose.”