

The album’s title track was penned by songwriters Ira Dean (former bass player with Trick Pony Montgomery Gentry’s “One in Every Crowd), Chris Wallin ( Kenny Chesney’s “Don’t Blink”) and Aaron Barker ( George Strait’s “Love Without End, Amen”), but sounds autobiographical. “I just didn’t want to have those two songs close together.” I didn’t want to because it was close to ‘You’re Gonna Miss This,'” says Adkins, referencing his poignant 2008 hit about the fleeting joys of parenthood that topped the chart for three weeks. “We recorded it for the last album, and they wanted to put it out as a single. Adkins says the label originally wanted him to put the song on “Cowboy’s Back in Town,” but he refused. Since the fire, Adkins, 49, and his family - his wife, Rhonda, and their three daughters, MacKenzie, 13, Brianna, 9, and Trinity, 6 - have been living at their farm outside Nashville, the location used for his new video, “Just Fishin’,” in which Trinity appears.

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1 Top Country Albums, including his Show Dog Universal debut and most recent release, 2010’s “Cowboy’s Back in Town.” He’s also increased his visibility moonlighting as an actor - most recently with Matthew McConaughey in “The Lincoln Lawyer” - and as a TV reality star (in 2008, he was runner-up to Piers Morgan on Fox’s “The Celebrity Apprentice”).

1 hits “(This Ain’t) No Thinkin’ Thing,” “Ladies Love Country Boys” and “You’re Gonna Miss This,” as well as four No. In that span, he has notched 14 top 10 hits on the Hot Country Songs chart, including the No. Since debuting on Capitol Records in 1996, Adkins has sold 8.3 million albums in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The timing couldn’t have been worse, as expectations for “Proud to be Here” run high. Trace Adkins’ Tennessee Home Destroyed in Fire
