Artist Of The Day: Trace Adkins

• Trace Adkins started singing for a gospel quartet at age 17. He later moved to Nashville and released his debut album, 1996’s “Dreamin’ Out Loud.” It hit the Top 20 and spawned the No. 3 single “Every Light In The House.”
  
• Adkins released his “Greatest Hits, Vol. 1” in 2003, a few months before being inducted into the Grand Ole Opry. He concluded the year by releasing the album “Comin’ On Strong.”
  
• The album “Songs About Me” holds the chart-topping title track and the No. 1 hit “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk.”
  
• 2006 saw the release of Trace’s seventh studio album, “Dangerous Man,” which features the single “Swing” and the No. 1 hit “Ladies Love Country.”
  
• Adkins released “American Man, Greatest Hits Volume II” in August 2007. The project featured new songs including “I Got My Game On” and “You’re Gonna Miss This.” In addition, Adkins released a DVD, “Greatest Video Hits,” as well as his first book, “A Personal Stand: Opinions and Observations of a Free-Thinking Roughneck.”
  
• Adkins’ album “X,” surfaced in 2008 and reached No. 7. It contains the singles “Muddy Water,” “Marry For Money” and “All I Ask For Anymore.”
  
• Adkins left Capitol and signed with Toby Keith’s Show Dog imprint. In May 2010 he debuted his first single for the label “This Ain’t No Love Song.” The album “Cowboy’s Back in Town” was released in August 2010. The video for the second single, “Brown Chicken, Brown Cow,” showcases the puppetmasters who created the faces of TV’s “Crank Yankers.” He also performed the song “Timing is Everything” on the soundtrack for the movie “Country Strong.”
  
• Adkins starred in the thriller “The Lincoln Lawyer,” a film based on the Michael Connelly novel starring Matthew McConaughey and Marisa Tomei.
  
• Trace Adkins’ latest album, “Proud to be Here,” was released in August. The album’s first single, “Just Fishin’,” hit the Top 10. The video, featuring the singer and his 6-year-old daughter Trinity, was filmed on Adkins’ property in Nashville.
  
• Country Weekly magazine recently named Trace Adkins Country’s Sexiest Man.
  
• Adkins co-hosted the American Country Awards last night with Kristin Chenoweth. In addition to his hosting duties, Trace performed his latest single “Million Dollar View,” the follow up to his recent Top 10 single, “Just Fishin’.”
  
• Official website: www.traceadkins.com