POP/ROCK - Oct. 1, 1990

The Good, the Bad and the Tuneful: Clint Eastwood is making a record. The actor sings with Randy Travis on the country star’s upcoming album of duets, which also features Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Conway Twitty, Roy Rogers, Loretta Lynn, B. B. King, George Jones, Kris Kristofferson, Tammy Wynette and Merle Haggard. Travis says he has always been an Eastwood fan and that Clint once suggested they sing together if the right song ever came along. “We found ‘Smokin’ the Hive,’ ” Travis said. “I thought, ‘Yeah, that’s the one,’ ‘cause we wanted something kind of comical.”