Trace Adkins
Trace Adkins
Tracy Darrell Adkins, known as Trace Adkins, is an American country music singer and actor. He made his debut in 1995 with the album Dreamin' Out Loud, released on Capitol Records Nashville. Since then, Adkins has released ten more studio albums and two Greatest Hits compilations. In addition, he has charted more than 20 singles on the Billboard country music charts, including the Number One hits "No Thinkin' Thing", "Ladies Love Country Boys", and "You're Gonna Miss This", which peaked...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth13 January 1962
CitySarepta, LA
CountryUnited States of America
I love playing the CMA Music Festival each year because it's one of the very best audiences you could hope for. It's one of the places you can perform where you know everyone there is a big Country Music fan.
I have always loved Waffle House. It's been like an oasis in the desert many times late at night after one of my concerts.
I've never been trained as an actor. I'm no Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Johnny Depp.
Anytime you get out of your comfort zone and you have to do something that you're not comfortable doing and that you're not real sure of yourself in, there's an exhilaration that comes along with that. I get off on it, so that's why I enjoy making movies.
Guitar playing is not my strong suit. I cut my finger off, working in an oil field, and it don't work anymore, so I'm limited as to what I can do on the guitar.
When I'm singing a song on stage, I hate hypocrites. If you don't put yourself in that lyric and emote and be what that lyric says that you are, then you're just going through the motions and you're being hypocritical. I just take that same approach with acting. I just take the dialogue and I emote it and become that. I use the same technic.
George Jones was my friend and I loved him.
New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.
If I feel like doing something, I do it. If I feel like saying something, I say it. If I feel like dancing, I do. If I don't, I don't.
I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction.
I don't do the same show on any two nights.
People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.
We started hearing from folks who have family members deployed, and 'Arlington' was making them feel uneasy and more apprehensive than they were feeling, ... I can understand that.
We're here for him, ... He's been coming here for years. It was a family tradition.