The album, titled Watered Down , appeared in March In , Adkins celebrated the 25th anniversary of the release of his first album with a streaming virtual concert event, Trace Still Dreamin' Out Loud , where he shared stories about his life in music and played a number of his best-known songs. Nine songs from the show would be released as a digital album by Universal. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript.
Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. Jazz Latin New Age. Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. Energetic Happy Hypnotic. Romantic Sad Sentimental. Sexy Trippy All Moods. Drinking Hanging Out In Love. Trace has some pet peeves: He hates slow drivers, and he is afraid of snakes -- which is odd considering he is a mammoth of a man, standing at 6 feet, 6 inches tall.
Trace's second wife, Julie, shot him in the chest during a domestic dispute. The singer never pressed charges, but the pair divorced shortly after. He has a number of scars on his chest from this and other incidents. After he graduated from Louisiana Tech University with a degree in petroleum technology, Adkins' left pinky was cut off while he was working on an oil rig.
That group eventually won a regional talent contest and competed in the national finals in Nashville, Tennessee. After this success, Adkins spent four years touring with Bayou in cities in Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Mississippi, but soon grew disillusioned with the music business and returned to the drilling rigs.
Nonetheless, he asked doctors to set an inju red pinky finger--that had to be sewn back on following an industrial accident--in a permanent bend so he could still play the guitar. In addition to this work-related injury, Adkins, who also had to have his nose re-attached when it was torn off in an automobile crash, was run over by a bulldozer and almost lost his legs, and had a barrel oil tank explode while he was repairin g it.
More recently, in , he broke his ankle after he stepped into a hole on his farm in rural Tennessee near Nashville, resulting in months of recuperation time. Then one year later, Adkins seriously injured the middle and index fingers of his left h and during an accident on his property.
While using a front-end loader and trailer to move some rocks in order to solve an erosion problem at the farm, he dislodged a pound boulder that rolled over his hand. Both fingers were crushed. Recovering at ho me, he said of the incident for a press release: "Well, it's been a solid year since I paid my last visit to the hospital, and I was missing all my friends in the emergency room.
His greatest flirtation with death, however, occurred one February night in when Adkins and his second wife of three years, Julie Curtis, got into an argument over his beer drinking. A shoving match ensued, and Curtis tried to call her mother, prompting Adkins to knock the phone from her hand. Subsequently, Curtis grabbed the family's. After recovering from several surgeries to repair his heart and lungs and divorcing Curtis Adkins declined pressing charges and the police ruled the shooting accidental , his luck, in terms of his musical career began to change.
Previously, back in , Adkins had relocated to Nashville in order to dedicate himself full-time to music. Here, he met Capitol Records Nashville president Scott Hendricks, who picked up Adkins as his first signing to the label after hearing the country singer perform at Tillie's, a Mount Juliet bar. In November of , Adkins released his debut album for Capitol Nashville. Produced by Hendricks, Dreamin' Out Loud proved a major success, eventually going certified platinum the following year.
Adkins' first single , "There's a Girl in Texas," soared into the top 20 of the Billboard country chart, while the follow-up single, "Every Light In the House Is On," peaked at number three. By now acknowledged as one of country music's hottest newcomers, he received comparisons to the likes of Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard, with the legendary Buck Owens describing Adkins as "a cool breeze on the music horizon Adkins' sophomore collection, 's Big Time , cemented the rising star's reputation.
Easily going certified gold in , the album spawned additional hits, includi ng the ballad "Rest of Mine," a song Adkins wrote and sang at his May wedding to third wife Rhonda Forlaw. It peaked at number two on the country charts in December of that year. In November of , Adkins released his highly anticipated third album, More And that's exactly what I wanted. I'm gonna open myself up and let people see what I'm about.
This is who I am. He also began to seek recognition outside the country music scene, appearing on the Saturday Early Show on the CBS television network on September 9 of that year. Throughout Adkins' career, touring has remained important. Surprisingly, he never perceived a loaded tour schedule as an extreme hardship. Rather, he always en joyed performing for and meeting with his fans.
As he explained, "Performing live is something I absolutely live for. Selected discography Dreamin' Out Loud , Capitol, Big Time , Capitol, August 23, Adkins was inducted into the Grand Ol' Opry. This hit, all about the ways of love, was Adkins' first chart-topping tune, and it kicked off his career in a big way. The narrator in this song spends most of the time explaining why he's leaving his friends, a jukebox and the order he just gave his waitress -- and his reason has something everything to do with a call he just got from his girl.
The song's even better knowing that Adkins is the father of five girls himself; his youngest, Trinity, is even featured in the "Just Fishin'" music video. For the most part, Adkins' songs tend to fall into two camps: somber and reflective or absolutely gleeful.
This one is a solid example of the latter. In the series finale of the television show The Office , Andy Bernard says, "I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.
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