I’m tired of listening to CDs today. I’ve been finding good stuff but it’s getting old listening to the same phrases over and over and over.
I want some meat in my songs, I want emotion, I want a story … good grief, do I want country music?!
Understand that if I had a choice, I wouldn’t listen to country music. But today, after scanning CD after CD with the same themes (“God is good, God is good, God is good”) I found myself wanting more.
Yes, God IS good, but I need a dose of reality, not repetition.

So I popped in Randy Travis’ latest album, Around The Bend.
Ahhh, now that’s what I was looking for.
Songs about faith, family, loss, and love sung by a familiar voice that’s soothing and inspiring. Makes me want to pull up rocker on my front porch and start jawing with the neighbors about the price of gas and Aunt Mabel’s arthritis.
And that would be a good thing.
For more than 20 years, Randy Travis has been entertaining audiences and with this album he comes back to his country roots – real country, not that commercialized pop crap that they’re pawning off as country these days. Instead, Around The Bend features steel guitars, bluegrass banjo, twanging guitars and Travis’ homespun charm.
Just what I needed.
Around The Bend released July 15. It debuted at #3 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and at #14 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, Travis’ high debut ever.
For more about Randy Travis, visit his website.