Great review - for anyone asking what to expect at an RT concert, this reviewer pretty much raps it up as told. Now, words can't truly express or take the place of being there but this article truly does its best.

Enjoy.

The Gazette Sun,
Updated August 31. 2008 8:52PM
http://www.gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080831/NEWS/70...

Review: Travis delivers classy show
By Diana Nollen
The Gazette
diana.nollen@gazettecommunications.com
RIVERSIDE — Randy Travis is a class act.
Flashing a million-dollar jackpot smile, he launched into more than 90 minutes of
his classic country chart-toppers Sunday afternoon at the Riverside Casino Event
Center. And skipping an encore, he instead knelt at the edge of the stage 90 minutes
later to shake hands with his fans and autograph ticket stubs, CDs, cassettes, T-shirts
and everything else thrust his way.
On the heels of his first country album in eight years, I would expect to hear every
cut from that disc, with a couple of hits tossed in to keep fans at bay. Instead,
he dished up hit after hit, reaching all the way back to 1985's "On the Other Hand"
and "1982," with just a couple of cuts off the new album.
He told genuinely funny jokes, he talked to his audience between most songs and introduced
his band of eight top-flight instrumentalists with genuine warmth and affection.
He looks classy, he sounds classy and he is classy, through and through.
If you read his bio, you see just how far this kid from North Carolina has come since
his rebellious teen years and scrapes with the law. Gee, I feel a country song coming
on.
But Travis, now 49, doesn't sing about those traditional themes. Instead, this leader
of country's New Traditionalist movement of the '80s and '90s sings about love —
love of a good woman, love of family, love of heroes, love of his country, love of
God and love lost and found.
And I can't imagine anyone in the sold-out audience of 1,200 people walking away
without loving him.
He started the show wrapping his twangy baritone around the 1986 hit "Diggin' Up
Bones," then slid into "1982," where the steel guitar put the cry in the song before
putting the mournful honky-tonk wail in "Before You Kill Us All."
Next, he said he was going to do a medley of number 1 hits, but virtually everything
he sang was a number 1 hit.
He's a storyteller, whether telling tales from his 30-year career or weaving musical
tales bittersweet like the new "Dig Two Graves" or jaunty as in "Deeper Than the
Holler."
His willingness to share personal glimpses took "Heroes and Friends" to even higher
heights. Many heads in the mostly middle-aged and older crowd nodded when he said
the song was inspired by one of his childhood heroes, Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys.
And one of his cherished memories is that he got to sing it for a teary-eyed Rogers,
who died in 1998.
The concert's best singalong moment came with another nod to a king, "King of the
Road," which Travis recorded for the 1997 "Traveller" movie soundtrack. It sounded
like virtually everyone in the room joined him in that classic chorus.
And one of the loveliest moments came when he sat with his guitar in a solo spotlight.
With just a touch of slide guitar in the background, Travis put a slow, contemplative
spin on "Nowhere Man," which he sang in Liverpool during a 1990 tribute to the late
John Lennon. Their styles couldn't be farther apart, but in that moment, their spirits
came together.
The concert was everything a concert should be — personal, warm and memorable.

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

I second everything Diane said! She took the words right out of my mouth! My husband is not a really big Randy fan or a big country music fan for that matter but he even said that he really enjoyed Randys concert! It truely show that Randy has great joy in his life and can share that with others with his songs and shows. Brenda

the site, from what i understand, does have one photo and the set list.
Enjoy.

The News Tribune, Tacoma, WA
Ernest Jasmin riffs on pop music and the local music scene
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
http://blogs.thenewstribune.com/ej/?cat=306
Randy Travis doles out country classics and a few laughs at the Emerald Queen
Posted by Ernest Jasmin @ 11:06:19 pm
I capped a busy concert weekend with a trip to the ol'
Emerald Queen
tonight to catch country legend Randy Travis. I knew the guy has been one of the
biggest names in country for more than two decades, and that the country star turned
gospel singer was back on the road in support of “Around the Bend,” his first set
of secular songs in eight years. But I’d never seen the guy had no idea how funny
and charming he was, “Everything I Own (Had Got a Dent)” – one of two songs from
the new album he sang – being case in point. Elsewhere, his selections were more
poignant, with fan favorites like “Heroes and Friends,” “He Walked on Water” and
“Three Wooden Crosses” sung in a rich, nasal baritone (except for when he dipped
down deep for a few flamboyant, crowd pleasing low notes.) As an added bonus, Travis
threw in a killer sing-along take on Roger Miller’s pop classic “King of the Road.”
ERNEST JASMIN

Hope you saw that Randy is in concert once again at Billy Bob's in Fort Worth March 7, 2009. I wish it was tomorrow. He will be in Grand Prairie Oct 26 but I probably won't make it. Every concert is great and a real treasure for me...and the other fans. Randy give all he can at those concerts. cowwoman60 Denise