b. 8 February 1963, Marietta, Georgia, USA. Tritt started writing songs and playing honky tonks and beer joints when he was about 14 years old. One of his songs is called "Son Of The New South", and his US country hit "Put Some Drive Into Your Country" includes the lines, "I made myself a promise when I was just a kid/I'd mix Southern rock and country and that's just what I did." In other words, Tritt is where Merle Haggard meets Lynyrd Skynyrd. Although the title track of his debut album presented him as a honky tonk revivalist, Tritt's music reflects his childhood love for the classic country of George Jones and the southern rock of the Allman Brothers Band. He reached superstar status in 1991 with the first single from It's All About To Change - a wonderful bar-room ballad of love betrayed, "Here's A Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)". The follow-up, "Anymore", proved his credentials as a balladeer, while his acting in the award-winning video clip for the song won him several offers of film work.

After two magnificent albums, T-R-O-U-B-L-E was something of a holding operation, though it contained at least one classic, the traditional-sounding "Lord Have Mercy On The Working Man". Tritt further extended the boundaries of modern country with a nine-minute workout on Buddy Guy's blues standard, "Leave My Woman Alone". He combined with Marty Stuart for two hit singles and a series of concerts playfully titled The No-Hats Tour in honor of the duo's full heads of hair. Only some outspoken criticism of Billy Ray Cyrus in the summer of 1992, and the decision to issue a sentimental album of Christmas favorites later in the year, threatened his relentless progress to the top. He continued on his path to American icon status by giving a half-time performance at the 1993 Super Bowl in Atlanta's Georgiadome.

Ten Foot Tall And Bulletproof was as much southern rock as it was country, and included guest appearances from Waylon Jennings and Hank Williams Jnr. The power-charged title track was helped by a fine video and Tritt's incredible rise continued with the hugely successful Greatest Hits, which contained an astonishing 10 country number 1 singles. He contributed Jackson Browne's "Take It Easy" to Common Thread: The Songs Of The Eagles, and "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" to It's Now Or Never - The Tribute To Elvis. In 1996, he sang the main song, a revival of the Platters' "Only You (And You Alone)", for the Steve Martin movie Sgt. Bilko. The Restless Kind, produced by Don Was, was a pure honky-tonk country album, with no rock drum timings or hard guitar. Following one more album for Warners, Tritt signed a new recording contract with Columbia Records, debuting for the label in 2000 with Down The Road I Go. An accomplished songwriter and performer, with one of the most distinctive voices in country music, he is a major talent who is set to encompass every branch of country music.