Released in 1987, “Forever and Ever, Amen” became one of the defining songs of Randy Travis’ career and a cornerstone of the neotraditional country movement. The song reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and won both a Grammy Award and CMA Single of the Year. Travis’ success with songs like this helped shift country music back toward a more traditional sound in the late 1980s, influencing a generation of artists that followed and solidifying his place as one of the genre’s most