Randy Travis: Rise and Shine Trivia Quiz

Answer: False

His birth name was Randy Bruce Traywick. He was born May 4, 1959 in Marshville, North Carolina and became active in the country music scene in 1978. Since then, he has had over fifty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs Chart, over fifteen of which have peaked at number one.

Answer: USA Billboard Top Christian Albums

"Rise and Shine" was Randy Travis's fourteenth studio album and was released in 2002. It peaked at number one on the USA Billboard Top Christian Albums and at number eight on the Top Country Albums chart. It reached number 73 on the U.S. Billboard 200.

Answer: seventeen

"Seventeen and wild I hit the bottle
Doing anything I dang well please
Burning down life's highway at full throttle
While mama burned a candle on her knees."

This song was written by Paul Overstreet and Rory Lee Feek.

Randy Travis appeared in seven episodes of "Touched by an Angel." His acting career also included appearances in the 2001 film "Texas Rangers," the 1997 film "The Rainmaker," and the 1998 film "Black Dog."

Answer: baritone

A baritone is a male voice that falls between tenor and bass. A tenor is a high adult male voice. An alto is a low female voice, or a low boy's voice. A soprano is high female (or boy's) voice.

Randy Travis has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Answer: Joesph

"Ya'll may have to look at Joseph
A couple thousand years ago
When he held a newborn baby he named Jesus
He said he may not be blood of my blood
Still I'm gonna raise him up."

This song was written by Robb Royer and Rivers Rutherford.

Randy Traywick came to the attention of Country City USA nightclub owner Elizabeth Hatcher after winning a talent contest at the nightclub. She hired him on as a cook and also to sing, and she became his manager in the late 1970s. Hatcher took a job managing The Nashville Palace club, and in 1982, Randy Ray (as his stage name was at the time) recorded an independent album there, called "Live at the Nashville Palace." With that, Hatcher secured a deal with the Nashville branch of Warner Bros. Records, and that's when Randy changed his name to Randy Travis.

Answer: The hooker

In the song "Three Wooden Crosses," The teacher, farmer, and preacher all die in the bus crash. But the hooker lives to give birth to a boy who will grow up to be a preacher himself, and he later shares this story with his congregation:

"And that preacher whispered, 'Can't you see the Promised Land?'
As he laid his blood-stained bible in that hooker's hand
That's the story that our preacher told last Sunday
As he held that blood-stained bible up
For all of us to see
He said 'Bless the farmer, and the teacher, and the preacher
Who gave this Bible to my mama
Who read it to me.'"

In 2003, "Three Wooden Crosses" peaked at number one on the U.S. Hot Country Songs Billboard Chart and was Randy Travis's first number one single since 1994.

Answer: The fish

"Everybody gathered where the river runs wider
At the edge of town
To see if that Eddie Lee Vaughn baptism
Was really gonna go down...
Then the preacher said, 'People take a moment or two
There's something we need to do, pray for the fish.
They won't know what's comin'
When the sin starts rolling off the likes of him."

This song was written by Phillip Moore, Dan Murph, and Ray Scott. Aubrey Haynie played fiddle on the song while Gordon Mote was on keyboards.

Answer: Jerusalem's

"Can you hear Jerusalem's cry
Can you see the storm on the rise
Look around you can't deny
This is the hour of heaven's time."

The song "Jerusalem's Cry" was written by Randy Travis with Lance Dary and Pastor Matthew Hagee. Pat Flynn and Billy Joe Walker, Jr. played acoustic guitar on the track while Eric Darken supplied percussion and Wes Hightower supplied background vocals.

Answer: The singer's grandfather's

"By my grandfather's bed, my mother is reading
Psalm 62, God is our refuge
And my grandfather stirs, could it be
He is waking one final time
He has something to say."

This song was written by Rob Mathes with Phil Naish. Paul Franklin played pedal steel guitar on the song and Vicki Hampton, Lisa Silver, Cindy Walker, and Wes Hightower supplied background vocals.

Answer: your lure

"Keep Your Lure in the Water" was written by Randy Travis along with Michael Curtis and Pastor Jeff Perry.

Randy Travis was inducted on October 16, 2016 in the Country Music Hall of Fame. He sang "Amazing Grace" live. It was a rare live performance after having been admitted to the hospital in 2013 for viral cardiomyopathy and suffering a stroke. In September 2019, however, Travis announced he would return to touring, in a limited capacity, with James Dupré serving as lead singer.