Country singer Travis Tritt [ tickets ] plans to spend much of 2003 on the road as he continues to support last year's "Strong Enough."

Released last September, "Strong Enough" is Tritt's second album for Columbia Records, and his second release since taking a two-year hiatus from the music business. That hiatus ended with his 2000 Columbia debut, "Down the Road I Go."

"When people talk about 'Down The Road I Go' as a comeback album," Tritt said in his record-label biography, "that's not an insult to me at all. I really kind of embrace that, because that's pretty much what it was--it was a comeback from being off the radar screen for about two years."

Tritt went on to explain that the lyrics for his latest album's title track, "Strong Enough to Be Your Man," were inspired by singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow's 1994 hit "Strong Enough."

"[Crow's 'Strong Enough'] basically asked, from a woman's standpoint, are you strong enough to be my man? I thought it asked a great question ... and for years and years I've wanted to write a guy's response to that. So this time around, I finally sat down with that thought, and I said, I'm finally going to write this, and I'm going to write it by myself, because this is really kind of a personal thing."

Tritt said he spent four or five months writing material for "Strong Enough."

On March 1, during his stop in Asheville, N.C., Tritt is scheduled to sing the National Anthem at a Support Our Soldiers prayer rally inside the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium at 3 p.m., according to his official website.