Click on the photo and it will enlarge.

Those are awesome photos.

Oh, I'm sure the photos are nice. but personally I would have liked the link to the article also though so i could decide for myself how bad it appeared to be. I know critics can be very condiscending but i am one that likes to let everyone decide for themselves how bad something is as often times some may not read it in the same context as another.

I know a couple of times i thought perhaps something was being portrayed negatively and others on here read it differently.
Even it if is not to our liking, we don't have to agree with it.
I've got plenty of those articles in my collection that i didn't ncessarily like or agree with.

Always and Forever...An RT Fan
Linda and Guide, Greg

Here is a review but not the review that was posted with the above photos.

http://www.twincities.com/entertainment/ci_13250102?nclick_check=1
State Fair Grandstand review: Randy Travis as you remembered him
By Rob Hubbard
Special to the Pioneer Press
Updated: 09/01/2009 11:32:19 PM CDT

"Operator, please connect me to 1982."

So sang Randy Travis at the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand on Tuesday night. It's the first line of one of his first hits, but his performance may have given many the feeling that they'd been transported to a Grandstand show from much earlier than 1982. To a time before country music was spliced with pop and rock. This was a show for country purists, proudly oblivious to fashion. If you find the Minnesota State Fair comforting in its glacial pace of change, then this may have been this year's ideal Grandstand show for you.

And, if you weren't there, you should know that there was plenty of room for you. Despite Travis being one of the largest-selling country artists of the past quarter-century — and warm-up act Joe Nichols having a host of recent hits of his own — only 4,118 showed up for what felt like an evening at the Grand Old Opry without walls and roof. Pedal steel guitars sang out, bass lines ambled along amiably, and Travis proved a charming companion, cracking wise and hitting notes low enough to loosen the floorboards.

If you remember Travis as an artist of the '80s, your memory hasn't failed you. His rise to fame in the middle of that decade was hailed as a refreshingly retro move for an industry that had seemingly lost contact with its roots. And listeners responded by buying his records at a pace previously unseen for a country artist. After taking refuge in gospel for most of this decade, Travis
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released a secular album last year and it reached a higher spot on the pop charts than any album in his career.

But he and his eight-piece backing band spent most of Tuesday evening reviving the hits from his '80s heyday. He had 10 number-one singles on the country charts during that decade, and eight of them found their way onto Tuesday's set list. Travis' relaxed delivery made each song seem like an old friend, be he bouncing through "Deeper Than the Holler" or swinging lazily on "Honky Tonk Moon" like a latter-day Bob Wills.

It was also a treat to hear an opening set by an even newer "new traditionalist" like Joe Nichols. With a hot band, clever material, matinee-idol looks and an engaging stage presence, Nichols seems like an ideal successor to Travis and Alan Jackson as a torchbearer for an old-fashioned sound. He's already had a pair of number ones on the country charts, and some new songs he introduced sound as if they could be headed there, too.

Rob Hubbard can be reached at rhubbard@pioneerpress.com.

Thanks Lademars - got your PM and I now understand.
Crap is right not to mention the language. .

If I'm not mistaken, this is the same review I posted on 09/02 only it came out of the initial paper, the St. Paul Pioneer Press. this was the one i wasn't too sure about what to say, and am still not.

Always and Forever...an RT Fan
Linda and Guide, Greg

Sorry Linda if you already posted that article. I don't always read all the posts on this site. Als sometimes you just can't remember where you did read something before and its not always easy nor do I always want to take the time to see if someone posted and article before. I never mean to post something that has been posted by someone else.

Loveeeed the photos. They were absoutely great!! Thank you soo much for sharing. =)

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Jasmin