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Travis Mitchell Band
Biography
Travis Mitchell is a Dallas, TX-based singer, songwriter, guitarist, and leader of the four-piece Travis Mitchell Band. The Dallas native didn't pick up a guitar until he was almost finished with college at the University of Texas at Austin, but his ambition quickly made up for his lack of experience. After the songs he'd been writing got a warm reception at various open mic nights, he put together the first version of the Travis Mitchell Band and cut his first album, Forget What's Wrong. The music combined country, Southern rock, honky tonk, bluegrass, folk, and even some metal and hip-hop into the pot. Its combination of Texas roadhouse country and Nashville radio-friendly country turned heads at Rock Ridge Records, the company helmed by Chris Henderson of 3 Doors Down, which signed the Travis Mitchell Band to a contract after seeing them live. His first album for the label, Waiting on Tomorrow, was released in September of 2007.

Mitchell was born in Dallas in 1982. His father owns a small chain of feed stores and Mitchell grew up comfortably middle class. Both his parents have extended families full of talented amateur musicians. Mitchell's mother has a wide-ranging taste in music and exposed him to country, R&B, and other kinds of music, but in grammar and high school Mitchell was more interested in writing short stories and poetry than music.
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