Travis – who triggered the comeback of country music in the post-Urban Cowboy 1980s – is supporting last fall’s release of Inspirational Journey, a collection of traditional and contemporary religious songs.

He’ll spend most of July east of the Mississippi, playing secondary markets. Right now, Travis has a few scattered dates from August through November. His current itinerary closes with a two-night stand, November 2-3, at the Chinook Winds Casino in Lincoln City, Ore.

Travis’ career – guided by longtime manager and now wife Lib Hatcher – took off in 1986 with the single, “On the Other Hand.” It helped launch his first full-length major label release, Storms of Life, that summer.

For the next three years, Travis had a streak of top-selling albums and No. 1 singles, which helped set the stage for the pop-country performers to follow – namely Clint Black and Garth Brooks – in the early 1990s.

Though country music has been thoroughly dominated in the last decade by hat acts and sex symbols, Travis’ traditional approach to the music hasn’t changed. He continues to record and tour regularly, still landing singles on the charts and getting radio play.