THOUGHTS FROM TRAVIS TRITT

About the songs on “Set in Stone”:

“The last thing I would want is to hype people on a new album and then for some reason to do something different than I’ve always done. It’s been pretty consistent, and the last thing you want anyone to do is listen to a new album and go, ‘Really? What is this? This is not you. We know who you are, and this is not you.’ So, I think that when people hear this album, (those) who are already fans of mine will recognize all those same influences mixed in together and they’re going to relate to a lot of the songs.

About the role of country radio:

“I’m at a point in my career to try to chase after radio just doesn’t make sense. If I can be so bold to say it: it really doesn’t play the part it used to play. When I started my career, radio was the gatekeepers for everything. They’re no longer that. The thing that everybody is looking at now is your streaming numbers… I’m gonna take the same approach to this album that I’ve always had, and that is if radio plays it, great; I consider that to be gravy.”

About the more you play, the more you learn:

“Before I got signed, I was a human jukebox and playing everything from everybody. For whatever reason, if I did a Hank (Williams) Jr. cover or Waylon (Jennings) or Willie (Nelson), people accepted that from me. I tried doing George Strait songs and for whatever reason, my audience never would accept George Strait from me. That was extremely helpful. That made me realize right away, I need to gravitate more in this direction. It helps define you as an artist…i always tell (young musicians); every time you get an opportunity to entertain in front of an audience, you should do it. For all of the bad experiences I had from those early days, I would never take them away.”