Label Founder Responds to Travis Tritt Lawsuit

12/13/2007 Stephen L. Betts Yesterday (12/12) we reported Travis Tritt has filed a $10 million lawsuit against his record label, Category 5. Late yesterday, the label’s founder Ray Termini, issued this response in an email to www.CountryAircheck.com: “It is amazing that Travis Tritt and his mental midget management would choose to read headlines and take them as the gospel. One day at a time the truth about my healthcare company is being told. It is no secret to Country radio and folks on the inside of the music profession that Travis and his manager are difficult to work with at best - his track record with radio speaks for itself. "Our label is not the first to have to deal with his over-the-top ego, which is driven by a massive insecurity complex. He has cost my label a fortune and has been uncooperative from the onset. For years he sang, 'I'm gonna be somebody,' [and] it's a shame that that somebody turned out to be who he is. He has openly blamed Country radio, his past labels, just about every radio promotions person that has ever worked for him, CMT, GAC and the CMAs for his lackluster record sales and fading career. Knowing the people from all of these groups, I feel as though I am now in good company as a result of his attack.”