Randy Travis Reveals All His Money Is Gone

author Ken Abraham admits that part of the challenge of helping Randy Travis write his first-person autobiography was finding words and phrases that sounded like Randy as a kid I was singing his songs because my daddy was a big Hank Williams fan I love to laugh I laugh at myself hey you might as well learn to laugh at yourself because everybody else more in a sense ken was giving the hall of famer his voice back after a 2013 stroke robbed him of a world-famous instrument an instrument responsible for some of the most pure country music ever created [Music] I told you so Travis is happy to explain the ups and downs of his life and revisit old songs in print but is he satisfied yeah it's not enough yeah and we're not giving up [Music] forever [Music] the book is called forever and ever amen and it's an unflinching chronicle of Travis's turbulent life and career from his humble beginnings in Marshville North Carolina to the night he accidentally blew off Mick Jagger's dinner invitation to today where he sits happily married but financially devastated by misplaced trust bad bookkeeping and medical bills millions and millions of dollars he thought he had saved while married to and managed by Lib Hatcher simply weren't there any longer and no one has figured out why get situation today okay I don't want you to get too detailed but uh you need to work or still need to have some income coming up yeah hopefully the book will help in a way forever and ever amen is part survival and redemption story and part cautionary tale for anyone making a career in music Travis now 60 years old and preparing to move back to Nashville full-time doesn't hold back even when retelling old stories of arrests abuse and several near-death experiences he agrees that writing this book wasn't easy but it was liberating somebody once said it is almost like taking a knife and and pulling it across a wound that has not yet had the opportunity to congeal and heal and that's what we were doing we're taking a knife over some of those things that really had been untouched for a long time for a lot of years and that's tough to deal with randy has always been so so faithful so so honest so true so humble and you know you just hope other people will grasp that same type of humanistic you know attitude and say you know what I did maybe do some things I shouldn't have done just like you said a second ago we've admitted where we were wrong and we hope that they will do the same thing because there's so much freedom in knowing that you know I literally can't tell Travis a story without his wife marry alongside him the couple have known each other for decades but married in 2015 nearly two years after doctors gave him a little chance to survive cardiomyopathy and a devastating stroke she's his rock she's the one that fought for him the doctors had pretty much given up on Randy and and in that moment when when Mary is confronted with the the doctor saying pull the plug and all of that and she comes to Randy and said Randy all right do you want to keep fighting and she sees that tear come down his face and she knew that there was still fighter in here then he squeezed her hand he squeezed her hand there in the hospital room and she knew he was going to give up so much is made of Mary's responsibilities as his caretaker and the one who can speak for him that it's easy to overlook the fact that in many ways they're just like any other couple they watch TV together and they even bicker the pair also know a deeper form of communication that Mary talked about when we flat out asked what's Randy Travis like as a husband he's a warrior he's an angel he is you know when you when you go when you go through life and you have someone that is so dear to you that can tell you every day how much they love you and how special you are how pretty you are how you know thank you for this thank you that you take that for granted it's one of those things I often tell people I'll say listen fast talk slow appreciate every single day if if somebody you think talks too much just listen you know act like you're listening anyway but he can't do that in words like most people can but it's so precious how loved I feel by him in his silence in silence Randy Travis finds his voice thanks for watching this episode of unfiltered for more inspiration and episodes you might have missed click this playlist

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Length: 5min 24sec (324 seconds)

Published: Mon May 13 2019