Mary: I think that a lot of the songs that people heard through the years were songs that were from [Randy’s] heart. That was his way of getting away from the anger and the bitterness and the tough parts of childhood, and he was able to sing his life through song. And I think through that, he found so many other people related. Faith & Family Help Us Find Our Way: Randy & Mary Travis and John Berry – Episode #150 Narrator: Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Our guests today are two music artists whose faith—and the faith of their families—sustained them during times of success and times of suffering: legendary country music artist Randy Travis, and his wife Mary, and country music singer and songwriter John Berry. First up, Randy Travis’s rise to fame included 20 studio albums w...
It was another pinnacle year for Jesus Calling® at CMA Fest last week in Nashville, Tennessee. The best-selling devotional that has sold more than 25 million copies set up shop at Fan Fair X and hosted a variety of guest artists that included Randy Travis, Crystal Gayle, T. Graham Brown, Crowder, Aaron Watson, and others. One of the biggest highlights from this year’s lineup was the CMA Close-Up Stage event: Jesus Calling Presents a Conversation with Randy and Mary Travis—covered by the Tennessean. Mary sat at Randy’s side to speak for Randy as he is currently not able to perform and only partially able to speak since his 2013 stroke. Mary read from the Jesus Calling and went on to say, “Sometimes people ask me if we are bitter or angry? This man sitting beside me was never...