Following a massive year in 2023, achieving the highest charting Australian country album of the year with “Any Less Anymore”, plus the longest running #1 Australian country single of the year and topped off with a Golden Guitar Award win in Tamworth; Travis Collins drops the first single from his highly anticipated new studio album.
The single, “Don’t Get Me Started”, was recorded with Jared Adlam in his Queensland studio. The song was penned with Payton Smith, US singer/songwriter signed to Big Machine Records.
As Travis describes the track, “It’s a phrase we’ve all heard, and often say. It’s a lighthearted warning to somebody not to tease or tempt you with something they already know you’re serious about pursuing all the way, or not at all. It could be an opportunity, a forbidden road-trip, a potential relationship or even just a passionate stance on a point of view. We’ve all got something like that in our lives, when it hits the conversation table, we say ‘Don’t Get Me Started’. Writing this track with Payton Smith was awesome, our mutual love of guitar riff driven hooks and melodies really came to the forefront for a feel-good song I’m proud of. Then recording it in the studio with my tour band was a first for my career, and it really lifted it to another place all together. I can’t wait for people to hear!”
Coinciding with the single release, Travis will launch the ‘Don’t Get Me Started Tour’. Amongst the first run of Australian dates, is a performance at the world’s largest country music festival, CMA Fest in Nashville in June. Travis is one of a handful of international artists selected to perform at the iconic event in 2024.
A nine-time Golden Guitar Award winner, four-time CMC Award winner, CMA Global Artist of the Year Award recipient, and two-time ARIA & APRA Award nominee, he’s toured alongside US megastars Tim McGraw and Luke Combs, and recorded with Nashville’s best. His mix of hands-in-the-air country-rock anthems combined with heartfelt ballads has led to over 40 million streams across his nine albums and thirty-plus singles.