Killing Uncle Buzzy is markeert de ommezwaai in het leven van Travis Meadows. Opgenomen in eigen beheer na een geslaagde afkick periode.

Op Allmusic.com staat een schrijnende samenvatting van zijn leven tot dat moment:

“Stripped to bare bones, the facts of Travis Meadows’ life contain the elements of a great country song.”

“Meadows was raised in Jackson, Mississippi after his birth in 1965. Following his baby brother’s death at the age of two, he went to live with his grandparents. His parents divorced and started new families of their own, leaving Meadows with his grandparents. Hurt, he turned to drugs when he was 11. At the age of 14, he fell ill with bone cancer. He’d recover from the disease, but he’d lost his right leg to it by the time he was an adult. In his late teens, Meadows began playing music, moving to guitar from drums by the time he was 21 years old. After a spell playing blues, he headed to Gatlinburg, Tennessee, eventually gravitating toward Christian music. He spent a decade as a missionary and a preacher, but by the time he was in the twilight of his thirties, he decided to leave the church so he could attempt a career as a professional songwriter in Nashville. Meadows scored a contract with Universal Music Publishing but his various addictions prevented him from capitalizing on the opportunity.“

Voor wie zich afvraagd hoe een kind van 11 verslaafd kan raken aan drugs:

“I’ve struggled with addiction my whole life. I remember I was five or six years old and I’d have a stomachache, and they’d give me Paregoric, which has opium in it. It felt so good, I’d get stomachaches all the time so I could take it” (Rolling Stone Magazine).