It almost ended up on my last album, but it was too close to ‘You’re Gonna Miss This,’ so I held it back. My first single off this new album is a song called ‘Just Fishin,’ which I recorded a couple of years ago. “I’ve been doing this for 15 years now, but I still can’t always tell a hit. It has one of the most hardcore country songs, ‘Poor Folks,’ on it that I have recorded in years.”Īdkins, who has had hits with songs like “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk,” “Ladies Love Country Boys” and “You’re Gonna Miss This,” admits he doesn’t always know which single will climb highest on the charts. “It was great to work with Mark and with Kenny Beard, who was his co-producer. His pedigree as songwriter and record producer is bar none,” said Adkins. He’s worked with some of the biggest names in the business, everyone from George Strait to Brooks and Dunn and Reba McEntire. ![]() “This is my first time in the studio with (producer) Mark Wright. I have a saying, ‘Get out of the problem, get into the solution,’ which I’ve always believed was the right thing to do.”Ī month after the fire, the Louisiana-born Adkins, runner-up on the debut season of NBC-TV’s “Celebrity Apprentice,” is back on tour and ready to promote his aptly titled latest album, “Proud to be Here,” which will be released Aug. All that really matters, however, is that we have a place to stay and the kids are safe. “I’ve already accepted that I probably lost everything that was in that house. ![]() In light of all the tornadoes and the flooding in the South this year, we wanted to make sure that my fans directed their generosity that way,” he said. There are people who aren’t as fortunate as we are who really need help. “I told her to put on her publicist’s hat for a minute and think about the possible headline: ‘Trace Adkins House Burns, His Family Is Homeless and He Goes Fishing in Alaska.’ So I came home, and my wife was right, of course, there was nothing I could do but bug them.”Īdkins, his wife and their daughters have moved to their weekend home, a cabin on their farm near Nashville, while they consider what to do next about the home they lost. “I told Rhonda after the plane refueled I would head back, and she told me just to stay there, that there was nothing I could do in Nashville (Tenn.),” Adkins said. Adkins was preparing to board a flight back home when he spoke to his wife, a former Arista Records publicist, by telephone. The couple’s three daughters, Mackenzie, Brittany and Trinity, had already been helped to safety by their nanny, who followed a safety plan established for the girls by their parents. I hadn’t even had a chance to read a single one, however, before my road manager got to me and told me about the fire and immediately assured me that everyone got out safely and that no one was injured,” he said.Īdkins wife, Rhonda, was on her way home at the time of the fire and saw the flames engulfing the house as she drove up. The minute I landed in Alaska, my phone almost blew up with text messages. “The entire time I was in the air, my house was burning down. And just five minutes after I turned off my phone, unbeknownst to me, an electrical fire broke out at my house in Tennessee,” said Adkins, 49, by telephone from a Wisconsin tour stop. ![]() “I was flying between Dallas (Texas) and Anchorage (Ak.) with plans to spend a couple of days fishing before I had my next show. The extra flying Adkins did in early June, however, involved a family emergency and not a concert stop. At the height of his country music career, and with a busy touring schedule, singer Trace Adkins knows his way around airports.
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