Who the pretty boy, then, eh? Who's the pretty boy?
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.
Who the pretty boy, then, eh? Who's the pretty boy?
"Dim the lights, pour the wine and play the jukebox
Dance with every Sue and Betty that's around"
What IS a red-ass country fan? I have never heard that phrase before.
Maybe 18?
I stood in a checkout line with him in a grocery store in Santa Fe.
Before I could figure out how to bring up a request for tickets, he was gone.
One of life's fickle finger's of fate.
“Randy was out testing the lyrics of a new song he was about to record.”
“Drinkin’ Wine Spo-De-O-De”?
WPLJ?
I think he is confused. I have never heard that phrase before either but I have certainly heard this one...
Blake Shelton - Kiss My Country Ass (and it applies to him in this case)
LOL I’m with ya! (and I rarely talk like that).
Just heard on the local news here in DFW that Randy apologizes and says he had too much celebrating of the Super Bowl.
I like Travis too but there have been a lot of these types of stories surfacing over the past few years. There was one about a year ago where he couldn’t show up for a radio interview and was acting bizzare in another one. He has a great voice but so did Elvis, and we know where Elvis ended up. I hope Randy gets some help.
Hank Williams, Sr. was the “Amy Winehouse” of his time.
Very sad news - he’s had quite the troubled past...
‘Are you telling me you’ve never seen an Angel?’ - great song ~
What I’d like to know is how do you get a girlfriend when your driving around in a 1996 Pontiac.
It's a bummer what he's going through but what was up with that 69-year-old wife? Yikes. Never marry somebody that's 20 years older than you. That way, you grow old together instead of separately.
Sounds like the storms of life are washing him away.
Best song he ever had and it was not released as a single.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgtxFonmd4E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=95CHfMGnFu0
Better Class Of Losers by Randy Travis
“You think it’s disgraceful that they drink three-dollar wine
But a better class of losers suits me fine.”
I got a little tight during the Superbowl my own self. ;o)
This was a snotty little article written by someone who enjoys the suffering of others.
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