ALBUMSilent Night - SingleGiada Valenti & Trace Adkins
Albums by Trace Adkins
ALBUMSomething’s Going OnTrace Adkins
ALBUMThe King's GiftTrace Adkins
ALBUMLove Will...Trace Adkins
ALBUMProud to Be Here (Deluxe Edition)Trace Adkins
ALBUMCowboy's Back In Town (Deluxe Edition)Trace Adkins
ALBUMX (Ten)Trace Adkins
ALBUMDangerous ManTrace Adkins
ALBUMSongs About MeTrace Adkins
ALBUMComin' On StrongTrace Adkins
ALBUMChromeTrace Adkins
Trace Adkins's Popular Music Videos
Hell Right (feat. Trace Adkins)
Blake Shelton
Where the Country Girls At
Trace Adkins, Luke Bryan & Pitbull
Honky Tonk Badonkadonk
Trace Adkins
This Old House (feat. Trace Adkins, Dierks Bentley, Sara Evans, Cody Jinks, Michael Ray, Darius Rucker, Travis Tritt & Steve Wariner)
Clint Black
Mind on Fishin'
Trace Adkins
Just Fishin' (Closed-Captioned)
Trace Adkins
This Ain't No Love Song (Closed-Captioned)
Trace Adkins
Swing
Trace Adkins
Rough & Ready
Trace Adkins
Songs About Me
Trace Adkins
Artist Playlists
Trace Adkins Essentials
This gravel-toned hillbilly hitmaker is also a reality TV champion.
Artist Biography
Hard-edged honky-tonker Trace Adkins built his career by sticking to his traditionalist guns. Born in the tiny town of Sarepta, Louisiana in 1962, Adkins has led a life tailor-made for a country star. After graduating high school, where he sang in a gospel group called the New Commitments, he headed to Louisiana Tech to play football. A knee injury cut short his time there, and Adkins dropped out and worked on an oil rig, where he accidentally cut off the tip of his left pinky finger—he had the docs reattach it at an angle so he could keep playing guitar. After cutting his teeth in bars around the South, Adkins made music his life with the 1996 debut, Dreamin’ Out Loud, which put three singles in the top three spots on the country chart. His small-town upbringing and working-class roots inform many of his tunes; he espouses the romantic advantages of a farmer’s tan on the 2006 chart-topper “Ladies Love Country Boys” and throws a hillbilly party on 2020’s rowdy “Just the Way We Do It.” While he can do vulnerability, too—2011’s “Just Fishin’” is a tearjerker of a daughter and daddy tune—a punchy, good-time blend of rock ‘n’ roll, blues, and twang is Adkins’ calling card. Runaway 2005 hit “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk”—an early harbinger of country’s embrace of hip-hop—is a stellar example, the perfect storm of party-starter riffs and cheeky humor.