Tritt signed his first record deal in 1987, but it was nearly two years before he had a song out. "It seemed like forever before we finally got that single out," he admits.

On his way back to Atlanta from a showcase in Nashville in 1989, Tritt and his band were packed into two vans when he heard the DJ introduce "Country Club."

"We didn't even have a tour bus at the time," he said. "My drummer would drive one van and I drove the other. We were coming out of Nashville and we were almost to the point where the radio station was almost completely faded away and we heard the disc jockey say, 'Coming up next is a song from a brand new artist named Travis Tritt. The song's called 'Country Club.' We'll play that next.'"

Overjoyed, Tritt immediately made his band pull off to the side of the road. "[We] sat and waited for it to come on because we knew if we had gone any further we were going to lose the station," he said. "There was just something about that moment. It was almost surreal to have finally realized that all those years of hard work and now you've finally got a song on the radio. It's unbelievable."