NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The opening sounds like a line from a dirty joke: "A farmer and a teacher, a hooker and a preacher." But the one laughing is Randy Travis, who has his first No. 1 country hit in ...

Randy Travis is a little frustrated. For more than four years, he nourished an album of gospel songs, a pet project he worked on here and there around his busy schedule as a country-music superstar.

SAN ANTONIO -- Country star Randy Travis never missed a beat when record label executives asked him where to launch his first gospel album. Travis' choice: The Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, an ...