This guy is 52?
Posted on 02/06/2012 1:13:04 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
It may seem that we're talkin' foolish, but Randy Travis was arrested early this morning, allegedly drunk in a car parked in front of a Baptist church in the Denton County town of Sanger. (Travis reportedly owns a ranch in Tioga, 25 miles east of Sanger.)
TMZ broke the story. They reported that a citizen notified police of a suspicious vehicle parked in front of the church with a man inside. When cops arrived, they found the one-time platinum-selling honky-tonker inside with an open bottle of wine at hand.
Hold up...Wine? Wine? What kind of honky-tonker gets busted with wine? At least he was apparently swilling it from the bottle, as no there was no report of a receptacle of any kind, but still....
In a follow-up story, TMZ further reported that Travis told the cops he had been fighting with his girlfriend. The cop also reportedly said that Travis was slurring so heavily he could hardly be understood.
Since Travis was not seen driving the car, he was charged with public intoxication rather than DWI, and he was booked into the Denton County Jail around 1:30 am. and was released upon sobering up a few hours later.
You might have missed it, but Travis has been pitchforking the tabloids fodder by the bale since 2010.In September, the singer made news when he collapsed onstage at a Fort Worth gala performance; his camp later put out notice that the reaction between a cup of coffee and some allergy medicine was to blame.
In July of that year, the National Enquirer reported that the 51-year-old singer's 19-year marriage to his 69-year-old manager was coming to an end because Hatcher had caught him cheating with the wife of his dentist, 51-year-old Mary Beougher. Travis and Hatcher's divorce was finalized in October of 2010.
The next month, the Enquirer reported that Travis and Beougher were house-hunting together even before she was divorced, reportedly eying a $10 million mansion near Gainesville, Texas
Unnamed sources predicted disaster for the couple. Not only was Travis drinking again for the first time in many years, but Beougher was oft-married and still unready to settle down, according to the tabloid's always unimpeachable sources.
The article went on to recount Travis's mid-1990s rebirth as a Christian singer, and noted that recent developments might cast the sincerity of that new direction in a less-than-positive light.
"[W]ith adultery, divorce and drinking in his life, Randy is likely to lose some Christian fans," an unnamed source told the paper.
Perhaps that was the real reason he was found outside a church: he was just trying to win back some of those fans.
The 1991 marriage to Hatcher had tongues wagging in Music City. The couple were wed just as Travis was beginning to be publicly confronted with rumors that he was gay, rumors that Travis has always vehemently denied, not least in his Behind the Music-style CMT biography.
All this cowboy Peyton Place carrying-on would seem to put the lie to those rumors, but no doubt for some red-ass country fans, the fact that Travis was caught with wine and not Bud Light or Jim Beam will confirm every suspicion their bigoted hearts have ever held.
Interesting:
In 1991 Travis took part in Voices That Care, a multi-artist project that featured other top names in music for a one-off single to raise money for the allied troops in the Gulf War. The project included fellow singers Garth Brooks, Kenny Rogers and Kathy Mattea. In addition, Travis recorded the patriotic song “Point of Light” in response to the Thousand points of light program initiated by President George H.W. Bush. Its release prompted New York freelance writer Lina Accurso to file a complaint with the Federal Election Commission charging that the single qualified as political advertising for since Bush media consultant Roger Ailes produced the song’s video and White House publicist Sig Rogich, was credited as a co-writer. The FEC rejected the complaint, ruling that the song and video “neither expressly advocate the election of, nor solicit contributions on behalf of, Mr. Bush.”[13]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Travis
He’s a conservative. I’ve also seen him in the audience of John Hagee’s church several times. He has a FANTASTIC voice. This is sad but I pray he rebounds.
He’s in a better class of losers.
I have all of his hits on my smartphone. Three wooden crosses is the best IMO.
Diggin up bones...
Sanger is a nice town I had Christmas lunch there once at the Jack-in-the-Box...
Apparently, Randy was out testing the lyrics of a new song he was about to record.
John Nova Lomax - Houston Press
but no doubt for some red-ass country fans, we know he can sing and doesn't have pimples, how about you, John Nova Lomax?
We’re close in age, but I always thought he looked better than me. Thanks to clean living (and Insanity and P90X), that is no longer the case.
Wonder if Travis will be performing at a local Spokane casino on the 11th?
If you’ve never heard Randy Travis in his duet with the late Roy Rogers ‘Here’s Hopin’, it is worth the search, and be sure to have the Kleenex handy. A wonderful tune.
Sounds to me like this Texas boy John Lomax has a deep seated problem with country western folks and christians.
Wonder what he's hiding behind this public false bravado........
/mark
I just googled some of his articles and there is something creepy about this guy let alone his picture.....
He reminds me of a closet homosexual who bashes his own kind in order to defer any suspicions that he is indeed one of them........
52,, this shot of Randy is a lot better than some of his previous.. He’s taking better care of himself, I reckun. ;-)
Gee..., ya think...?
This probably-gay, child journalist knows little about honky-tonkers.
After all it was the immortal George Jones who wrote:
"To try and forget you I turn to the wine
An empty bottle, a broken heart, and you're still on my mind."
If it's honky-tonk enough for The Possum, it's honky-tonk enough for me.
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