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Product Description: As a pioneer of Nashville s new traditionalist movement, North Carolina-born
Randy Travis changed the face of country music and helped reconnect
the genre with its authentic roots. It all started with STORMS OF LIFE,
the 4X GRAMMY®-winner's 1986 #1 debut LP and country s first-ever
multiplatinum album. Rediscover the riches of this country music
masterpiece, including its four Top 10 hits: the #1 smashes On The
Other Hand and Diggin Up Bones plus No Place Like Home (2),
and 1982 (6).Amazon.com essential recording: When Storms of Life's singles were climbing the charts in 1986, they sounded like a miracle. After all, at the time, Randy Travis was just about the only young exemplar of traditional country you could hear on the radio. Travis's first hits ("1982," "On the Other Hand," "Diggin' Up Bones") helped put twang, briefly, back in the saddle, inspiring what was quickly dubbed the new traditionalist movement. So, yeah, this is an important album, but what's really important here is Travis's beautifully expressive and quivering baritone. On the bridge of "No Place Like Home," he gets down on his knees and begs his wife to take him back in--and, with that voice, it's no wonder he pulls it off. --David Cantwell
Customer Reviews:
- Coming full circle: Unlike many albums in my collection, I feel a connection with Storms of Life. When I was a kid, My mother and I listened to this album in the car. Fast forward a decade or so. I had grown up, changed music tastes (going from country to Christian music with a dash of rock, pop, and R&B thrown in) and thought Country was music one lost brain cells listening to. This all ended when I rediscovered this album in her CD collection. It showed me what country should be: truthful and pure music about common emotions that people go through such as divorce ("No Place Like Home"), infidelity ("Reasons I Cheat") and others ("The Storms of Life"). These are favorites, but the singles such as "1982", "Diggin' up Bones", and "On the Other Hand" and other songs such as Send My Body and "My Heart Cracked (But It Did Not Break)" are good as well.In saying all of this, there are songs I've never been able to connect with such as "There'll Always Be a Honky Tonk Somewhere" and "Messin' with My Mind". For Country Music before it became about how much alcohol you can consume, a Republican Party auxiliary, or about the "badonkadonk" this is an album to own. I also recommend this to folks who like other genres as well but want to audition a country CD for your collection, try it! Come on down and sit a spell.
- Randy Travis...Storms of Life: I love this album...My favorite Randy Travis...it's great country music....when country wasn't cool....just another vinyl, being replaced by a CD.....
- Really good: I admit I bought this because I couldn't pass up an album that included a song called "Send My Body Home [On a Freight Train]", but there really isn't a bum track on there.
- Great Debut Album: This is Randy's mainstream debut album and one of the best country debut albums of the era, along with Dwight Yoakam's "Guitar, Cadillacs, etc, etc". The album is jam packed full of great songs, wonderful singing and playing and superb production from Kyle Lenning. There are quite a few of Randy's "Best Of" albums out there and all of them sample heavily from the "Storms of Life" album; a very good indication that the album was out of the top draw. It is incomprehensible that this album is now out of print although there are some Amazon re-sellers selling it for less than $5 which is amazing value for one sensational record. I'm not a big Travis fan (I only have two of his albums (vinyl) and one CD - this one) but the Storms Of Life albums is a necessary purchase for any traditonal country music fan.
- After 20 years, this is still the best album around!: I have nearly 50 years of recordings in my collection and this album has been in my top 5 from the day I bought it. The other reviews written here state the reasons why it is one of the best country music albums ever made. The main reason is the voice of Randy Travis and the other reasons are the songs themselves; each one is excellent. A perfect example of what is the best of country music.
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