Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ Capitol Records) - TRACE ADKINS "X" (TEN), his tenth album for Capitol Records Nashville, will hit the market on November 25. This album marks the second time he has teamed up with producer Frank Rogers who also produced his last studio album Dangerous Man containing his multi-week No 1 single "Ladies Love Country Boys," and his most recent multi-week No 1 "
You're Gonna Miss This" from American Man, Greatest Hits Vol II album.
"Muddy Water," the lead hit single from "X", is a soul-stirring ballad about the power of redemption. The accompanying music video now airing in heavy rotation on CMT and GAC cable networks, features his Celebrity Apprentice co-star and actor, Stephen Baldwin in the starring role. Although Baldwin has starred in dozens of big-screen films, "Muddy Water" marks the first music video for the award-winning actor.
In anticipation of the album, Adkins will also grace the pages of Billboard, Road King, Country Weekly, People, First Magazine, and the Associated Press to name a few. He will also be making numerous national television appearances, including a performance on the nationally televised (ABC) 2008 CMA Awards, a GAC special Trace Adkins: X (TEN) Days, chronicling his recent USO Trip to Iraq and Afghanistan, the 82nd Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade," "Bonnie Hunt," Fox News Channel's "O'Reilly Factor," Fox's "Talk Show With Spike Feresten," the new nationally syndicated talk show "The Doctors," Fox's "Morning Show with Mike and Juliet," TV Guide Network special, "Hottest Stars of Country Music," CNN and DIY Network's "Indoors Out," to name a few.
Trace Adkins "X" (TEN) will give fans anything and everything they have always loved about his music over the past 12 years, including the gospel-and bluegrass-sired song and his current hit single "Muddy Water." In addition, there are songs like "Sweet," which turns a common national expression into a tight and particularized country tune, and "I Can't Out Run You," a vocal tour de force about the weight of romantic obsession in which Adkins records a haunting country soul song, in 2008, Sinatra-style. These songs show how both sides of Adkins' music work with a great stylistic co-cooperation: "Hillbilly Rich" wouldn't be nearly as good without the rooted center of Adkins' steady, nuanced baritone, and "Sometimes a Man Takes a Drink" could be tradition merely without his ability to infuse heritage styles with modern tensions and vibes. And the album features as well a song like "Till The Last Shot's Fired," which looks at military history and personal sacrifice, and in which Adkins' vocal is augmented by the rare presence of the West Point Cadet Choir." An energetic tune built around a heavy guitar lick - Adkins introduces the song as "a little funkabilly" - called "Better Than I Thought It'd Be" and a thoughtful orchestrated ballad, "All I Ask For Anymore," round out the album.
What's clear now, though, is that a dozen years into his career, Trace Adkins is not just an undeniable country music force. With his larger-than-life personality, steely determination and proven ability to compete in other medias, he's a force that will continue to come.
