New Sound Album: Chrome pushed him to a heavier sound that he's more or less had ever since.

'I Got My Game On' starts on a title-drop.

'Swing' opens with Trace saying 'Take me out to the ball game.'.

'The Rest of Mine' starts cold with 'There's no guarantee that we'll ever see tomorrow'.

Love Will Lead You Back: The narrator of 'Every Light in the House' attempts to invoke this by leaving on every light in the house to hope that she comes back.

Just the Way You Are: The underlying message of 'Hot Mama', which has the narrator reassuring his wife that no matter how much she might stress about getting older, to him she's still as beautiful and sexy as she was the day they met.

He compares it to still liking whiskey but having to drink it watered-down instead.

Feeling Their Age: The subject of 'Watered Down' is a man who is feeling his age, admitting that he can't do as much of what he used to when he was younger.

Early Installment Weirdness: His pre- Chrome albums have much tamer material: the production is lighter, his voice is higher (to the point that 'Lonely Won't Leave Me Alone' even features him singing falsetto), and there's very little sexual or macho material.

Early-Bird Cameo: He can be seen in a band in one scene of the 1987 film Square Dance.

Double Entendre: In 'I Left Something Turned On at Home', the title line clearly does not refer to something such as the stove or heater, but rather to an aroused or 'turned on' lover.Dating What Daddy Hates: 'Ladies Love Country Boys' is about a girl introducing her redneck boyfriend to her straight-laced suburbanite parents.The King's Gift, released in 2013, features Adkins performing Christmas carols in a Celtic style.This rendition charted that year from seasonal airplay. In 1998, he recorded 'The Christmas Song' for a promotional CD sold at Dillard's department stores.Bowdlerise: 'Rough & Ready' changed two lines for the radio edit: 'Got a 'What are you looking at, asshole' smirk' became 'Got a 'what are you lookin' at, pretty boy' smirk', and 'Work boots, one blue suit / Size too small, don't wear at all / Unless somebody kicks, gets hitched / That's a bitch, it makes me itch' became '.don't fit, it makes me itch'.

Bow Chicka Wow Wow: Invoked by way of pun on 'Brown Chicken Brown Cow', where the title animals are the only two witnesses to a sexual encounter in a barn.Badass Baritone: The deep-voiced Adkins stands six-foot-six, had a pinky reattached after an accident, survived getting run over by an off-road vehicle, survived being shot in the heart and both lungs, and often sings very macho, masculine songs.Age-Progression Song: 'You're Gonna Miss This'.He is also noted for his varied styles, with sensitive ballads and midtempos interspersed with silly novelty rock songs such as 'Badonkadonk'. He also holds a small number of acting credits, including An American Carol, Moms' Night Out, and I Can Only Imagine.Īdkins' music was originally identified mainly as neotraditional country, but many of his songs feature heavy electric guitar and rock beats. In addition to his musical career, Adkins appeared on The Celebrity Apprentice in 2008. He eventually left Capitol for Show Dog-Universal in 2010, netting his last major hit a year later with 'Just Fishin'.' Two more big hits, 'Ladies Love Country Boys' and 'You're Gonna Miss This', followed in the later years, but the hit making cooled after that. 2005's Songs About Me produced his most iconic song to date, 'Honky Tonk Badonkadonk'. But it was 2001's Chrome and Comin' On Strong two years later that added a rock edge to his existing soulful baritone vocals, as exemplified in the tender ballad 'I'm Tryin'', and the more sexual 'Chrome' and 'Hot Mama'.

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