Nashville's Most Badass Songwriter Travis Meadows Shares Tragic Life Stories 

The artist who conquered cancer and addiction, and made friends with Eric Church and Jake Owen, has penned some of country's most stinging songs...

Bolstered by the second chance afforded him by Killin' Uncle Buzzy, Meadows was in a better, but no less creative, mental state when he recorded its follow-up, last year's Old Ghosts & Unfinished Business. A collection of optimistic songs like the letter to his son "Wide Open" and the humorous "Good Country People," Unfinished Business was similarly therapeutic. "I needed that record to prove to myself I had moved past where I was on Killin' Uncle Buzzy. There's a lot more hope in it," he says, noting that he's beginning to write for another new project. "I don't know how I'm going to pay for it, but I'm excited about it." [READ MORE]