![]() We caught up with Adkins to talk about career, family, and close calls.Ĭowboys & Indians: You’ve reached 50 - one of those milestone ages. ![]() But he is someone who knows just how close he’s come, and how often he’s come, to losing everything. Because we didn’t really need it.”ĭon’t misunderstand: Trace Adkins doesn’t think of himself as a man who has it all. “And try to get people to make donations to the Red Cross or whatever else they might want to do. “I was just glad that we as a family were able to take that generosity and point it in the right direction,” Adkins says. Indeed, when his Nashville home was razed by fire last year, forcing him, his wife, Rhonda, and three of his five daughters to temporarily relocate to his farm, Adkins was surprised - and deeply moved - when everyday folks began offering donations to finance the building of a new house. But despite the lofty heights he has scaled, his most devoted fans continue to think of him as one of them. Nowadays, Adkins is a multimedia luminary, a country music superstar who has branched out as an actor (opposite Matthew McConaughey in The Lincoln Lawyer, Val Kilmer in the recent DVD release Wyatt Earp’s Revenge, and a small army of Hollywood’s elite in the forthcoming Civil War miniseries To Appomattox), a reality-TV regular (courtesy of Donald Trump’s The Celebrity Apprentice), and a bestselling author ( A Personal Stand: Observations and Opinions from a Freethinking Roughneck). Along the way, he has earned the adulation of an ever-increasing fan base with such megahit singles as “You’re Gonna Miss This,” an irresistibly affecting ode to the importance of stopping and smelling the roses “Brown Chicken, Brown Cow,” an uninhibited celebration of afternoon delights down home on the farm and “Honky Tonk Badonkadonk,” an exuberantly rowdy appreciation of shapely female anatomy. “And I was sober when I did it, so I don’t have any excuses, really.”Īdkins subsequently survived other well-documented mishaps - including a near-fatal encounter with a gun-toting ex-wife - while determinedly trudging the long, hard road from playing honky-tonk gigs to charting multiple-platinum albums. “It’s probably the most ridiculous thing that I’ve ever done to myself,” he recalls with a self-deprecating chuckle. During his hardscrabble days as an offshore oil-rig roughneck, he had to have his left pinkie finger surgically reattached after accidentally severing the digit while opening a can with a knife. While a teenager, he broke both arms, a leg, and some ribs and had his nose partly torn off after his pickup truck collided head-on with a school bus. One could be forgiven for viewing Adkins’ entire life as a recurring cycle of injury and recovery. ![]() I’m probably looking at a replacement at some point.” This is probably the last surgery that’s going to give me any relief. “So it’s been a recurring thing - my right knee is completely trashed. Then he made the trifecta during a skiing vacation. The second injury occurred while Adkins - who hails from the north Louisiana town of Sarepta - played defensive end for the Bulldogs of Louisiana Tech University. “I dislocated my kneecap the first time when I was a senior in high school,” he says. This year, Adkins adds, it was time for the knee to get tweaked. It’s catching up with me now, and I have to get stuff fixed.” I’ve been pretty hard on my body over my life. It’s either a shoulder or a knee or an elbow or a wrist or an ankle or something. “Every winter,” he explains in his trademark sandpapered drawl, “I usually get something fixed. In fact, going under the knife is practically an annual tradition for him. It’s the day before Trace Adkins’ 50th birthday and he’s at his farm near Nashville, Tennessee, recovering from the latest in a long line of reconstructive surgeries. After all he’s been through, the superstar singer is proud to be here, indeed.
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