Comments on: Album Review: Trace Adkins – Cowboy’s Back In Town

By: Kyle

Kyle — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:18:26 +0000

Bump to remind everyone to spend their $1.29 on “Between Rainbows and the Rain”!

Seriously, I wasn’t familiar with this Chris Ledoux album cut, but it’s great. Trace’s voice and the arrangement fit it perfectly.

By: Charles

Charles — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:58:08 +0000

The only song that I like off this album is on the Deluxe Edition it is called: “Happy Man”. He needs to do more songs like that. Instead of songs like: “Hell, I Can Do That”, or Brown, Chicken Brown Cow”, or Hold my Beer. Stuff like that, to me, in my opinion, isn’t real country music. Stuff like: “Happy Man” and “This Ain’t No Thinking Thing”, and “Untamed” is REAL country music. I think Trace is a great artist, but just needs to release great songs like: “Happy Man”, “This Ain’t No Thinking Thing” and he would be alright.

By: Fizz

Fizz — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:02:34 +0000

Of course it doesn’t, for somebody who takes everything at literal face value.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:27:28 +0000

“Very revealing?” All it reveals is that when Adkins finishes an album, he doesn’t want to have to do another one for 12-18 months. Which ain’t much, and certainly says nothing about whether he’s a musician (which – hello! – he obviously is, being a country music star and all) or whether music’s just a job to him or anything else along those lines. Sheesh.

By: Fizz

Fizz — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:15:45 +0000

Very revealing. Sounds like music’s just ajob to him. At the same time, maybe he just finds it all grueling and just not fun, the whole nitpicky experience that is the recording process for big-name albums with big money riding on them.

By: Will

Will — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:54:54 +0000

I find it telling that Trace in a recent interview talked about how Blake Shelton putting out 6-packs every few months and Trace said something to the effect of “when i finish an album, i don’t want to have to do another one for 12-18 months” It just kind of shows that Trace isn’t really a musician, he’s a guy with a great voice who realized he could make money. I don’t recall Trace writing too many songs and it seems like he’s just recording albums because someone at the label tells him it’s time. I enjoy some of Trace’s songs, but you can tell that there’s nothing on any of his albums that goes together, he’s recording songs and when he gets to 10, calls it an album.

By: Mayor JoBob

Mayor JoBob — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:22:31 +0000

It worked for Bob Dylan. “Self Portrait” was certified Gold!

By: Fizz

Fizz — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:56:16 +0000

… proving that if you play it on the radio enough times, and appear on enough TV shows, people will buy CD’s of you farting into the mic.

By: karen

karen — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:42:51 +0000

it’s pretty much sold out at the target near me.. I live in NE…

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:26:25 +0000

You guys are all pretty comical. Yep I do agree Toby is not one of the best singers out there except on his ballads. His writing skills over the last couple years are not even note worthy. What a shame. But as far as Trace: He is a wonderful performer who puts his all into his songs on stage; more than Toby does. He sings his ballads better than Toby by far; but I do agree some of his choices for his new album were questionble but all in all I enjoy it. I have enjoyed all of Trace’s music; but I would love to see him get away from some of the corny stuff he does & focus on what he does best…sing real music…I am glad I bought the new album.