Travis Tritt doesn't wear a cowboy hat. He has other accoutrements: two-toned Ray-Bans, Burt Reynolds' old tour bus, a pooch named Otis (after the town drunk on The Andy Griffith Show)-and, oh yeah, over 2 million records sold in the last two years. The albums, Country Club and It's All About to Change, have yielded six No. 1 country singles (including ''Help Me Hold On,'' ''I'm Gonna Be Somebody,'' ''Anymore,'' and ''The Whiskey Ain't Workin''') and made Tritt the only male country artist besides Garth Brooks to currently have an album on Billboard's Top 40 pop chart. Tritt, 29, who writes most of his own tunes, calls country music ''the soundtrack for the everyday, ordinary working person.'' He should know. Before devoting himself to music full-time in 1984, he sold heating and cooling systems in Marietta, Ga., and subsisted on Vienna sausage sandwiches. These days, his taste runs to sushi. With influences that range from George Jones to George Thorogood, Tritt's sound is a combination of straight-ahead country, romantic ballads, and hard-driving Southern rock. His biggest hit to date, ''Here's a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares),'' is a crank- up-the-volume-and-yell-along single he penned after his second divorce in 1989. Says Tritt: ''Sometimes I joke that I'm gonna go out and get married and divorced again so I can come up with the next album.'' Call it creative tension.
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