Reservoir acquires recorded music catalogs and publishing from country music star Travis Tritt
[L-R]: Adam Muhlbaum (Big Noise Music Group, Sr. VP of Marketing and Project Management), Mike “Cheez” Brown (Travis Tritt’s Manager), Jon Cohen (Big Noise Music Group, President), Travis Tritt, Nick Gross (Big Noise Music Group, CEO).
NEW YORK (CelebrityAccess) — Reservoir Media has purchased the publishing and recorded music catalogs of Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Travis Tritt, including up to his latest album, “Set In Stone.” The media company recently snapped up the publishing catalog of Grammy-winning DJ, songwriter and producer Fred Rister.
Tritt’s long career has seen seven of his albums certified Platinum or higher and around $30 million in album sales. He has charted more than 40 times on the Hot Country Songs Chart with five No. 1 hits and twenty Top 10 hits. He is a two-time Grammy winner, four-time CMA and a member of the Grand Ole Opry of Nashville.
The deal includes his most famous hits like “Here’s a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)” and “The Whiskey Ain’t Workin’ Anymore.” The latter earned Tritt his first Grammy in 1992 and he won a Grammy in 1999 for his collaboration with Marty Stuart on “Same Old Train.”
According to the press release, Creative’s Reservoir Executive Vice President John Ozier said, “Travis was a mainstay of the ’90s country movement, and his influence continues to impact the genre and its resurgence in music. charts today. The Reservoir team are so happy to support both their publishing and master recordings, and to build on our base of country catalog classics with more of the genre’s greatest songs.
Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.