– With over 11 million albums sold, Country icon Trace Adkins is announcing a new EP, Ain’t That Kind of Cowboy, set for release October 16, via Verge Records, with his new song, “ Just The Way We Do It.” Autographed copies of the EP in addition to exclusive new merchandise items are available in the Official Trace Adkins online store. “The thing with most of the songs written today,” he says, “it’s not that I can’t sing those things, it’s just the lyrics are too young.NASHVILLE, Tenn.
Even if it means taking a stab at more pop-oriented songs like the Something’s Going On track “Gonna Make You Miss Me.” It reminded Adkins of a Taylor Swift song, he says, and he ad-libbed a name-check to the superstar prior to recording. While it may not necessarily be a kinder, gentler Adkins – he appears to relish how intimidating he can be in person – the Louisiana native seems to not have issues with anything at this point. If nothing else, he is unpredictable,” says Adkins, who offers that Trump was utterly cordial to him during the competition. When he got in I said, ‘He’ll just fool around a little while, stir things up and get out.’ I was wrong again. “People asked me 18 months ago, ‘Do you think he’s going to run?’ No way. But even he can’t figure out what motivates the current President of the United States. To those outside country music, Adkins may be best known as an actor (he starred opposite Mark Wahlberg in last year’s Deepwater Horizon) or for his time on reality TV: he won Donald Trump’s All-Star Celebrity Apprentice in 2013. It doesn’t wake me up anymore,'” Adkins says of the character he inhabits in the song. This guy, he’s lamenting about that, but at the same time, he’s like, ‘I’m past that now. “It’s a beautiful metaphor for that pain that wakes you up in the middle of the night. Hank Williams sang often about those lonesome whippoorwills and trains. The song is representative of what Adkins does best: moving ballads that play well on radio while nodding to country music’s roots. “I thought, ‘This is for Buck,'” he says.
On the album standout “Whippoorwills and Freight Trains,” Adkins puts Owens’ tip to use, burying the final note of the song’s chorus. I said, ‘Ok, Buck, I’ll keep that in mind.'”
“He sat me down and said, ‘Trace, that low note you can hit, you need to do that in every song that you record, because that’s really all you got going for you,'” recalls Adkins. And the pioneer of the Bakersfield Sound gave him some advice – albeit backhanded. When he was still coming up in the business, the famously deep-voiced Adkins looked to Buck Owens that way. I’m glad I’ve been around enough that someone might look at me like that.” Someone asked me the other day if I felt like maybe I was moving into an elder statesman role and, yeah, I dig it. “It’s true, I’m on the backside of 40, but, hell, man, I’m not going to hide it. “I couldn’t say backside of 50, because it didn’t rhyme,” he quips. (Watch him perform “Watered Down” on NBC’s Today below.) Written by Matt Jenkins, Trevor Rosen and Shane McAnally, the soul-searching lyrics, which address being on the “backside of 40,” immediately resonated with Adkins. The project’s lead single, the fantastic ballad “Watered Down,” dovetails with exactly where the 55-year-old is in his life. The record is a collection of 12 age-appropriate songs (there’s no “Brown Chicken Brown Cow,” Adkins’ unfortunate 2011 single, here) and is also his first for Broken Bow Records, where he signed in 2015. He’s also refocused on his music and, with his new LP Something’s Going On, has released his strongest album in years. Adkins is now sober and in visibly fine shape.
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