Which Randy Travis album was his 1986 studio debut and included “On the Other Hand”?

Randy Travis’s 1986 studio debut album was “Storms of Life,” which included “On the Other Hand.”

The album introduced Travis’s traditional country sound at a time when polished pop-oriented production was especially prominent in Nashville. Its songs emphasized acoustic instruments, honky-tonk themes, and a restrained vocal style rooted in earlier country traditions.

“On the Other Hand” became Travis’s breakthrough single after a re-release in 1986, and the album also produced the major hit “1982.” “Storms of Life” was commercially successful and helped make Travis one of the central figures in the neotraditional country movement of the 1980s.

The album is sometimes confused with “Always & Forever,” Travis’s 1987 follow-up. That later record was also highly successful, but “Storms of Life” is the debut and the album that launched his recording career.