Comments on: Trace Adkins Releases His Tenth Album, X

By: jrm4th

jrm4th — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:03:21 +0000

hey i think u make some the best country music and i hear u dont like to ride motorcycles…. y is that…..

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:11:39 +0000

all I know is Blake has pretty good taste… I mean, I remember Kelly back then and MAN! lol. I was all about her. I remember telling a friend after seeing her video, “I want two to go please!”. And I liked the song as well. ;)

By: Chris N.

Chris N. — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:05:53 +0000

Is it wrong that the story about Mark Chesnutt’s guitarist made me think of ‘Rustler’s Rhapsody’?

“If I don’t surrender you’ll shoot me in the hand? I don’t reckon I like the idea of being shot in the hand.”

By: Stormy

Stormy — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:58:16 +0000

Brady Vercher
November 25, 2008 at 12:24 pm Permalink How was country music more commercial in the 50s-80s than it is now?

I guess I should say it was much more commercially sucessful, but there was not this whole alt-side to it that worked NOT to appeal to a mainstream audience.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:54:24 +0000

M.C. – Obviously I was not claiming that those artists had no commercial involvment whatsoever. while you are right about the commercial aspects of Jones and Travis’ careers, you can not make the claim that the level of commercialism was anywhere near the saturated level that it is these days. My point was that every aspect of a major label artists prmotion is commercialized and sponsored. The items that were commercialized 40 years ago are still being commercialized now, along with numerous other options not available in the 50’s-60’s (ringtones, websites, digital music,etc…).

By: dallas

dallas — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:17:55 +0000

We have seen Trace Adkins two times in concert ths year.One time he was with Kellie Pickler and another time he was with Alan Jackson both of the concerts were so awesome to be at.

By: Razor X

Razor X — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:07:53 +0000

“I don’t know which I’m more surprised about, that Kelly Willis doesn’t know who Blake Shelton is, or that Blake was a fan of Kelly’s as a teen. Hmmm….”

The part that doesn’t ring true to me is that Blake is not that much younger than Kelly. He’s 32 and she’s 40. She was 22 when she released her first album for MCA. Blake would have been 14 at the time, and that’s certainly old enough to know that one doesn’t put cash and coins in the mail. And $2.50 also sounds pretty cheap to get a poster in the mail in the 90s.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:26:55 +0000

Speaking of Trade Adkins, here’s a funny tidbit from MusicCityTV:

“Darryl Worley: Trace Adkins and I once got in a brawl!
By Brad, November 25th, 2008

Whoah, talk about yer battle of the titans! But Darryl Worley told me today that he and Trace Adkins once brawled in a California hotel room in 2002 when they were on the “Big Men of Country: Size Matters” tour.

“We locked horns pretty good,” Darryl said, laughing. “We’re just having a big ol’ party, ya know. We’re two Alphas, man! It was one of those tests of will and strength, ya know,” Darryl said.

The real victim — the hotel room.

“Two tour managers came in and started begging: ‘Please guys, we’ve already got enough damage here,’” Darryl said. “So we quit.” Darryl said he and Trace agreed they would never fight again.”

I think these two should dress up like Mexican wrestlers and do a bout for charity! (lol)

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:08:25 +0000

I don’t know which I’m more surprised about, that Kelly Willis doesn’t know who Blake Shelton is, or that Blake was a fan of Kelly’s as a teen. Hmmm….

Trace Adkins can’t have it both ways. If you have big radio hits with sexually suggestive lyrics you’re bound to get stereotyped and have such material expected of you by radio programmers. Although that never seemed to limit the career of Conway Twitty.

Boy, the word “commercialization” can mean a lot of things. When I think of Top 40 country radio I don’t consider the it “commercial” because of any product endorsements or tie-ins. I consider the music “commercial” when the song production is designed to produce a “radio friendly sound” that compromises the artistic integrity of the song, and especially when the songs start to sound alike. Well, that’s just my take anyway.

By: CraigR.

CraigR. — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:43:57 +0000

I am sorry to bring this up- but twice I have seen or heard Trace Adkins say something negative about gay marriage. Why isn’t anyone talking about that bigotry. If he was saying something negative about race or gender people would have something to say. I was never a big fan of his but I liked his voice , but not when it shows him as a bigot.