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Travis James Humphrey was born in northern Maine. He learned his trade from his father, Tim Humphrey. After high school, Travis served with the United States Air Force as a Bandsman for 8 years. He returned home to Maine in 2003.
Since 2003 Humphrey has criss-crossed the state as a regular fixture on the Maine music scene, playing everywhere from Houlton to Kittery and all points in between. He has released four full length CDs since 2003, the most recent one (“The Roadhouse Gospel Hour”) in 2014 with Maine producer extraordinaire Jonathan Wyman. The new CD “Home" was recorded, produced and mastered by veteran Maine music guru Bob Colwell (The Boneheads) at Colwell’s Root Cellar Studio in Hallowell, Maine.
The title of the new album “Home” makes clear the theme of the new songs, and Humphrey’s love for his home state is no more plainly stated than on the centerpiece track and first single, “State Of Maine.” Home and family as personal cornerstones are also evident on the recording itself, as all non-vocal sounds on the record were made by Humphrey on his family heirloom 1959 Gibson J45 guitar, with help from various electronic looping devices and other effects. “My Gibson was the first gift my mum gave my dad right after they started dating” Humphrey states. “She had acquired it as a trade for her beautician services and my dad played it for years before he gave it to me. I left it home when I joined the military, where I served two enlistments (and met my wife who was also from Houlton) but after playing in military bands I knew what I wanted to do; return to my home state and play music for people I cared about. The J45 was waiting for me when I got back."
Travis has opened shows for (and in some cases worked with) B.B. King, Blackberry Smoke, Redd Volkaert, Bill Kirchen, Roy Clark, Ricky Skaggs, Johnny Hiland, Denny Breau, Sean Mencher, Don Campbell, Bill Chinnock, and many other fine artists, both as a solo performer and as a backing guitarist for other feature performers. On any given Tuesday through Saturday, you can find him somewhere playing his heart out for the people of Maine.