“Target came to us and said, ‘If you can secure a couple extra tracks, we’ll support you,’ and it’s hard to say no to that,” Kennedy says. The third edition will be exclusive to Target and feature 16 songs, including two live tracks. As far as our advance orders, it’s a 50-50 split from retailers.” We want to make sure new fans and older fans have their choice. “We also have a deluxe package with 14 cuts, including a brand-new studio cut with Blake Shelton that will only be on Trace’s record. “We have a standard package of 10 cuts available every day anywhere in the country for under $10,” says Bill Kennedy, Show Dog-Universal Music VP of marketing, sales and new media. “Proud to be Here” is being released in three versions. “Just Fishin'” is produced by Michael Knox ( Jason Aldean), with the remainder of the album helmed by Show Dog Universal president Mark Wright ( Brooks & Dunn, Lee Ann Womack, Gary Allan) and Kenny Beard (Jeff Bates). Among the highlights, there’s the raucous “If I Was a Woman,” a duet with Blake Shelton (who Adkins worked with on the Country chart-topping duet “Hillbilly Bone”) and “Semper Fi,” a tribute to the Marine Corps. That’s really what I was thinking about when I named the album that.”Īdkins says “Proud to be Here” includes some of the strongest material he’s ever recorded. I thought about the fact that I’m still in this business after 15 years, still around and still trying to contribute.
“The people that do know me know my story, the near-death experiences and all the craziness, but that really wasn’t what I was looking at. “It just killed me the first time that I heard it,” Adkins says of the song.
The album’s title track was penned by songwriters Ira Dean (former bass player with Trick Pony Montgomery Gentry’s “One in Every Crowd), Chris Wallin ( Kenny Chesney’s “Don’t Blink”) and Aaron Barker ( George Strait’s “Love Without End, Amen”), but sounds autobiographical. “I just didn’t want to have those two songs close together.” I didn’t want to because it was close to ‘You’re Gonna Miss This,'” says Adkins, referencing his poignant 2008 hit about the fleeting joys of parenthood that topped the chart for three weeks. “We recorded it for the last album, and they wanted to put it out as a single. Adkins says the label originally wanted him to put the song on “Cowboy’s Back in Town,” but he refused. Since the fire, Adkins, 49, and his family - his wife, Rhonda, and their three daughters, MacKenzie, 13, Brianna, 9, and Trinity, 6 - have been living at their farm outside Nashville, the location used for his new video, “Just Fishin’,” in which Trinity appears.
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1 Top Country Albums, including his Show Dog Universal debut and most recent release, 2010’s “Cowboy’s Back in Town.” He’s also increased his visibility moonlighting as an actor - most recently with Matthew McConaughey in “The Lincoln Lawyer” - and as a TV reality star (in 2008, he was runner-up to Piers Morgan on Fox’s “The Celebrity Apprentice”).
1 hits “(This Ain’t) No Thinkin’ Thing,” “Ladies Love Country Boys” and “You’re Gonna Miss This,” as well as four No. In that span, he has notched 14 top 10 hits on the Hot Country Songs chart, including the No. Since debuting on Capitol Records in 1996, Adkins has sold 8.3 million albums in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The timing couldn’t have been worse, as expectations for “Proud to be Here” run high. Trace Adkins’ Tennessee Home Destroyed in Fire
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