Thursday, August 9, 2012

Next Up in High-Flying Careers That End Badly


I didn't realize he was  "Christian music" star.  Maybe they meant to say "Country music."  This IS Raw Story we're talking about.

UPDATE: I apologize to Raw Story (this once).
Police said it was not clear why the famed musician was naked, and he suffered only minor cuts and bruises from the single-vehicle accident. Officers were first notified that something may be amiss by a clerk at a nearby store who claimed that Travis walked in completely naked and attempted to purchase cigarettes. Police said a second report from a motorist claimed Travis was found strewn across Farm to Market Road 922 near Tioga, Texas.

For Travis, whose long career in music has been celebrated by southern country fans and evangelical Christians alike, the arrest marks his second encounter with police this year after a DUI arrest in February. That’s in spite of an interview he gave to Christianity Today in 2009, in which he claimed that his faith in the Christian deity helped him quit drinking alcohol in his mid-20s.

The longtime country crooner has in the last decade reinvented himself as one of the most famous Christian musicians in the world, winning Grammy awards in 2005 and 2007 for the religious albums “Worship & Faith” and “Glory Train.” Both albums also won the Gospel Music Association’s Dove awards, and Travis has since released a “Greatest Hits” collection of songs inspired by Christianity.
Obviously I have not been keeping up with Randy Travis' career.

What's the big deal? Who puts on clothes when they go out for cigarettes these days? We're a much more casual country than we used to be.

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