It was the era of the mullet. It was all business up front and party in the back! The year was 1991 and the mullet wearing denim clad cowboy known as Travis Tritt had yet a hit just waiting to be released.
That was a song that I had written years before I ever came to Nashville. I was going through a divorce, and I had been married twice before I ever was signed to a record deal. Before the audiences out there ever knew anything about me, I was divorced twice, and the second divorce came about just prior to signing my record contract with Warner Bros. back in the late ‘80s.
I was at home one day. My wife had moved out in the middle of the day, while I was at work, and I came home to basically an empty house. I thought I had been robbed: The front door was standing wide open, the back door was standing wide open, and you could see right through the house, and everything that was in it was basically gone. I was sitting in my living room, in one of the one or two pieces of furniture that she had left behind, and there was a knock on the door. It was from the sheriff’s department: They were serving me with divorce papers.
I sat down, and I started reading through the divorce papers, and [as] I was reading through them, the phone rang, and it was my soon-to-be ex-wife, calling me to, basically, say, “You know, maybe I rushed into this too quickly. Maybe we need to think about working it out.” I’m reading through all of the divorce papers as she’s talking to me. So after that conversation, I sat there and thought to myself, “Do I really want to consider getting back together at this point?” A lot of water had gone under the bridge, obviously, between when we got together and now. And, “Do I really want to consider reconciliation at this point?” And that’s when the lyrics came to me for “Here’s a Quarter”
It’s a song I wrote never considering to release it. I wrote it because it was a personal song for me to pick me up whenever I would get depressed over my personal situation.
One has to wonder, with the song being so raw and born from such a personal tragedy why would he release it so soon after he signed with his record label? Well he explained that very clearly.
One night, when I was just getting started, I was onstage at Billy Bob’s as an opening act, and something said in the back of my mind, “Play that song.” And so I did it acoustically, and, immediately, the response from the audience was just phenomenal, and I knew we had something that, if we ever decided to release it, was going to be a hit.
We are so thankful he listened to that voice! Today we have one of the greatest country hits of all time. A song that has defied generations and sits on many jukeboxes around the nation. A song of moving on, a song of life.
Good song.
yes thats a good one,the way I feel some times
Kinda looks like Doug Kroening with hair!!
Love this song
love it
Lena Green
Thats my song!
One of my favorites!! I’ve always been one of his fans.
I love that song
I miss Travis and his music. It was true country. Wish he’d come back!!
Love the song
Love THE TRITT
I lovr this song
Always been a huge fan of Travis Tritt
Loved Travis Tritt & Marty Stewart. Saw them on their NO HATS tour
That’s my song
I wore my cassette out play his songs
Love that song
Love him
I love this song to
Got to see him in concert he came out in a turquoise leather outfit very sexy still have the pictures of him
It ok
Love Travis Tritt! I have his greatest hits CD in my car!!! Love that song as well as the rest of them!!!
He was the first concert I saw. He opened for Sawyer Brown in Casper Wyoming… My boyfriend at the time took me. I had no idea Travis was opening…talk about psyched! I knew every song he sang, can’t say the same of Sawyer Brown though he was really great!!! Love Travis,
That was a good song back in the day,,….Green Door….
Loved it loved it and still do
Travis truth has so many good songs,this is one of my favorite
I. LIKE. THE. SONG. GOT. TO. GO. TO. SEE. HIM.
Love this song
Love Travis tritt
This ones for you Becky Brown
Love that song l remember buying the CD just because of that song
Heck Yes!
One of my all-time favorites!
Love this song