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We had a blast.”Īdkins says several of the songs on the new album were ones he had been wanting to record for a long time. We cleaned it up as much as we possibly could. Most of the stuff we were saying, the banter back and forth, we couldn’t put on a record. “I wrote that years ago with Kenny Beard, Jeff Bates and Sherrié Austin - and I specifically set out to write a song that I could do with Blake,” Adkins says of “If I Was a Woman.” “I wished somebody would have videoed that day in the studio, because it’s amazing that we actually got a vocal track that wasn’t just covered up with laughter - because we laughed the whole time. 305: “That was Mickey and Derek reaching out to Pitbull’s people, because they thought that he would lend something to this,” he explains.Īdkins is also happy to be singing again with his longtime pal Shelton, with whom he’s currently touring on the Friends and Heroes Tour. We don’t get to see each other enough, so we had a lot of fun.” The country star was less immediately familiar with the rapper known as Mr. “We hung out in the studio that day and just laughed a lot. “Luke is a friend of mine and I played songs for him and said, ‘I want you to sing one of these songs,’ and he’s just like, ‘Yeah!’ We just had a blast doing it,” Adkins says. Produced by Mickey Jack Cones and Derek George, the 25-song collection features a variety of special guests, including Melissa Etheridge on “Love Walks Through the Rain,” Keb’ Mo’ and Stevie Wonder on “Memory to Memphis,” Blake Shelton on “If I Was a Woman,” Snoop Dogg on “So Do the Neighbors” and Luke Bryan and Pitbull, who join Adkins on the single “Where the Country Girls At.” 27, Adkins’ 13th studio album, The Way I Wanna Go, is a creative tour de force that serves up the lyrical and stylistic diversity that would make his hero Milsap proud. is planned for release in the Spring of 2013 on Show Dog-Universal Music.Releasing Aug. In 2011, Trace last album, Proud To Be Here debuted atop the Billboard Country Chart powered by the Top Ten hit, 'Just Fishin',' and his eleventh studio album, Love Will.

#BEST TRACE ADKINS SONGS SERIES#

Trace has played a tough as nails biker in The Lincoln Lawyer (starring Matthew McConaughey), he developed and hosted GAC's 'Great American Heroes' series to pay tribute to every-day Americans doing great things and he has hosted the American Country Awards on FOX for three consecutive years. In 2008, Trace's integrity and wry humor served him well as a finalist on NBC's The Celebrity Apprentice and prepared him for his return - on behalf of the American Red Cross - to NBC's All-Star Celebrity Apprentice (Sunday nights, 9PM EST/PT). He also explains just how the world's biggest alpha-male handles fatherhood with five daughters.

In his 2007 autobiography, A Personal Stand: Observations and Opinions from a Freethinking Roughneck, the 6'6' oil-rigger recounted his rise to fame, brushes with death, and battles with personal demons. The Grammy-nominated member of the Grand Ole Opry is a television personality, actor, author, spokesman for the Wounded Warrior Program, the American Red Cross and has performed seven USO Tours. He also explains just how the world's biggest alpha-male Trace Adkins' trademark baritone has powered countless hits to the top of the charts and turned albums into Platinum plaques, selling over 10 million albums, cumulatively. Description: Trace Adkins' trademark baritone has powered countless hits to the top of the charts and turned albums into Platinum plaques, selling over 10 million albums, cumulatively.

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