Trace Adkins Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Trace Adkins: People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

Trace Adkins: They know who I am, where I come from, what I'm about. I go out there and it is what it is. If I feel like doing something, I do it. If I feel like saying something, I say it. If I feel like dancing, I do. If I don't, I don't.

Trace Adkins: I have always loved Waffle House. It's been like an oasis in the desert many times late at night after one of my concerts.

Trace Adkins: It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with.

Trace Adkins: Shoot, we go through hundreds of songs to find 12, ... It's like that on every album that I do.

Trivia

Trace has been a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 2003.

Trace Recently appeared on CD USA with his newest song Honky Tonk Badonkadonk on Saturday, February 11, 2006.

Trace was seen playing at Tillie’s & Lucy’s Pub in Nashville when Capitol Records’ president spotted him and signed him to a contract.

Trace first hit the charts in 1996 with his first single titled There’s a Girl in Texas.

Trace has two daughters from a marriage previous to his current one. Their names are Tarah who was born in 1983 and Sarah who was born in 1985.

Trace lost his pinkie finger when he was younger when working on a job before his stardom. When the doctors went to reattach it Trace asked them to put it in an unusual position to make up for the lack of dexterity in it. Now Trace’s trade mark is his crooked pinkie finger.

Trace is a timbering man who stands 6’6” tall.

Austin City Limits was another stop for Trace as he played himself in 1998.

On the TV series Yes, Dear in 2004, Trace appeared as Curtis in the episode Greg and Jimmy’s Criminals.

Trace appeared as himself in Blue Collar TV which was the episode when they did Battle of the Sexes in February of 2005.

Trace appeared on the TV series My Name is Earl as himself in the Pilot episode on September 20, 2005.

In the tribute to Merle Haggard, titled Workin’ Man: A Tribute to Merle Haggard in 1998 Trace appeared in that special as himself.

Trace was a performer in CMT’s show titled CMT 100 Greatest Songs of Country Music Concert.

Trace appeared as a Bayou Band Member in the movie Square Dance, which was released in 1978.

Trace Discography Dreamin' Out Loud Big Time More Chrome Greatest Hits Collection, Vol. 1 Comin' On Strong