Line #1 Music/TraceAdkins


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2	-> ''Trace Adkins is like the Wile E. Coyote of country music. Nothing can kill him unless one of those ten-ton Acme weights falls on his head.''
3	-->'''Creator/MoRocca'''
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5	Tracy Darrell "Trace" Adkins (born January 13, 1962) emerged at the end of TheNineties to become one of the bigger names in CountryMusic.
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7	A former football player and oil rig worker, Adkins began his musical career in 1996 with the album ''Dreamin' Out Loud'' on Creator/CapitolRecords. This album and its followups, ''Big Time'' and ''More...'', were all modest successes, notching him several Top 10 hits on the country music charts. Among them were such iconic songs as "Every Light in the House", "(This Ain't) No Thinkin' Thing", and "The Rest of Mine".
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9	But it was 2001's ''Chrome'' and ''Comin' On Strong'' two years later that added a rock edge to his existing soulful baritone vocals, as exemplified in the tender ballad "I'm Tryin'", and the more sexual "Chrome" and "Hot Mama". 2005's ''Songs About Me'' produced his most iconic song to date, "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk". Two more big hits, "Ladies Love Country Boys" and "You're Gonna Miss This", followed in the later years, but the hit making cooled after that. He eventually left Capitol for Show Dog-Universal in 2010, netting his last major hit a year later with "Just Fishin'."
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11	In addition to his musical career, Adkins appeared on ''[[Series/TheApprentice The Celebrity Apprentice]]'' in 2008. He also holds a small number of acting credits, including ''Film/AnAmericanCarol'', ''Film/MomsNightOut'', and ''I Can Only Imagine''.
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13	Adkins' music was originally identified mainly as neotraditional country, but many of his songs feature heavy electric guitar and rock beats. He is also noted for his varied styles, with sensitive ballads and midtempos interspersed with silly novelty rock songs such as "Badonkadonk".
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15	!Albums
16	* ''Dreamin' Out Loud'' (1996)
17	* ''Big Time'' (1997)
18	* ''More...'' (1999)
19	* ''Chrome'' (2001)
20	* ''Greatest Hits Collection, Vol. 1'' (2003)
21	* ''Comin' On Strong'' (2003)
22	* ''Songs About Me'' (2005)
23	* ''Dangerous Man'' (2006)
24	* ''American Man: Greatest Hits Volume II'' (2007)
25	* ''X'' (2008)
26	* ''Cowboy's Back in Town'' (2010)
27	* ''The Definitive Greatest Hits: 'Til the Last Shot's Fired'' (2010)
28	* ''Proud to Be Here'' (2011)
29	* ''Love Will...'' (2013)
30	* ''The King's Gift'' (2013)
31	* ''Something's Going On'' (2017)
32	* ''The Way I Wanna Go'' (2021)
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34	!Tropes present:
35	* AgeProgressionSong: "You're Gonna Miss This"
36	* BowChickaWowWow: Invoked by way of {{pun}} on "Brown Chicken Brown Cow", where the title animals are the only two witnesses to a sexual encounter in a barn.
37	* {{Bowdlerise}}: "Rough & Ready" changed two lines for the radio edit: "Got a 'What are you looking at, asshole' smirk" became "Got a 'what are you lookin' at, pretty boy' smirk", and "Work boots, one blue suit / Size too small, don't wear at all / Unless somebody kicks, gets hitched / That's a bitch, it makes me itch" became "...don't fit, it makes me itch".
38	* ChristmasSongs:
39	** In 1998, he recorded "The Christmas Song" for a promotional CD sold at Dillard's department stores. This rendition charted that year from seasonal airplay.
40	** ''The King's Gift'', released in 2013, features Adkins performing Christmas carols in a Celtic style.
41	* ChronologicalAlbumTitle: ''X''
42	* DatingWhatDaddyHates: "Ladies Love Country Boys" is about a girl introducing her redneck boyfriend to her straight-laced suburbanite parents.
43	* DoubleEntendre: In "I Left Something Turned On at Home", the title line clearly does not refer to something such as the stove or heater, but rather to an aroused or "turned on" lover.
44	* EarlyBirdCameo: He can be seen in a band in one scene of the 1987 film ''Square Dance''.
45	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: His pre-''Chrome'' albums have much tamer material: the production is lighter, his voice is higher (to the point that "Lonely Won't Leave Me Alone" even features him singing falsetto), and there's very little sexual or macho material.
46	* FeelingTheirAge: The subject of "Watered Down" is a man who is feeling his age, admitting that he can't do as much of what he used to when he was younger. He compares it to still liking whiskey but having to drink it watered-down instead.
47	* ForcedIntoTheirSundayBest: Implied in "Rough & Ready", when the narrator says he never wears his only suit-- which is itchy and too small-- except at weddings and funerals.
48	* JustTheWayYouAre: The underlying message of "Hot Mama", which has the narrator reassuring his wife that no matter how much she might stress about getting older, to him she's still as beautiful and sexy as she was the day they met.
49	* LoveWillLeadYouBack: The narrator of "Every Light in the House" attempts to invoke this by [[ALightInTheDistance leaving on every light in the house]] to hope that she comes back.
50	* LyricalColdOpen:
51	** "The Rest of Mine" starts cold with "There's no guarantee that we'll ever see tomorrow".
52	** "Swing" opens with Trace saying "Take me out to the ball game."
53	** "I Got My Game On" starts on a title-drop.
54	* NewSoundAlbum: ''Chrome'' pushed him to a heavier sound that he's more or less had ever since.
55	* RearrangeTheSong: The radio edit of "Chrome" scrubbed out the talkbox guitar.
56	* ShoutOut: "The Rest of Mine" was inspired by a line of dialogue from ''Film/{{Phenomenon}}''.
57	* SingerNameDrop: Trace name-drops session players Jonathan Yudkin and Gordon Mote before their respective solos on "Rough & Ready".
58	* SingleStanzaSong: "The Rest of Mine", although the second half of the stanza is sung twice.
59	* StuffyOldSongsAboutTheButtocks: "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk", obviously.
60	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Occurs in "This Ain't No Love Song":
61	-->This ain't no love song\
62	I just felt getting my guitar on\
63	And singing a tune\
64	Singing about you, yeah\
65	Feeling good and tapping my shoes\
66	And all this stuff I'm making up\
67	Well you probably won't be hearing it on the radio\
68	But then you never know\
69	So baby if you want, you can sing along\
70	But this ain't no love song
71	* TotallyRadical: "Where the Country Girls At" features him, Music/{{Pitbull}}, and Music/LukeBryan dropping street slang (and names).
72	* TrophyHusband: "Marry for Money" tells of one who is willing to marry any woman as long as she is rich.
73	* VocalEvolution: His voice got much deeper and richer starting with ''Chrome''.

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