Travis Collins Essentials

Hailing from the Hunter Valley, country singer Travis Collins breaks hearts with tender ballads, then rattles the walls with twangy rockers. The same guy who declared his love of winding roads against the choogling boogie of 2015’s “Curves” later duetted with Amber Lawrence on a rousing love letter to Australia called “Our Backyard” and addressed the ravages of depression on the heart-tugging “Call Me Crazy.” Collins also made a big splash with his rocky updating of John Denver’s “Thank God I’m a Country Boy” before saluting no-nonsense contentment on 2018’s rollicking “Happy”—punctuated by the memorable pearl of wisdom, “A good time ain’t so bad.”