Songs About Me | 
| Artist: Trace Adkins
Label: Liberty
Category: Music
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Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 54219
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 64512
UPC: 724386451224
EAN: 0072438645122
ASIN: B0007QS3TC
Release Date: March 22, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | Songs About Me | | • | Arlington | | • | Find Me A Preacher | | • | My Way Back | | • | I Wish It Was You | | • | Bring It On | | • | My Heaven | | • | Baby I'm Home | | • | Metropolis | | • | I Learned How To Love From You | | • | Honky Tonk Badonkadonk |
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Amazon.com
It's no surprise that the best cuts on Songs About Me are produced by Scott Hendricks, the man who gave Trace Adkins his major-label deal and best understands the psyche of a 6-foot-6 Louisianan with a past full of close calls, high emotions, and deep soul searching (getting shot and nearly dying, later going to rehab). Adkins, with his tender-tough, bottom-of-the-riverbed baritone, sings country music because he's lived its eventful story songs. That's something he celebrates in the title song, which deftly lays out the reasons for the genre's popularity, even to folks who wouldn't ordinarily gravitate to the twangy side of the radio dial. Perhaps anyone could make that song a hit, but it takes a singer of far more subtlety to deliver the incredibly well-written (by Jeremy Spillman and Dave Turnbull) "Arlington," a uniquely different type of war song. Elsewhere, Adkins runs the gamut of themes, from the heartfelt ballad "I Learned How to Love from You" to the randy "Baby I'm Home" to the high-octane "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" (produced by Dann Huff). If some of it seems like awfully familiar territory, Adkins elevates it to the art of blue-collar soul. --Alanna Nash
Album Description
Trace Adkins is on fire! The highly anticipated seventh album from multi-platinum Country music recording artist features the hit single 'Songs About Me' and has been Adkins' fastest moving single to date. Capitol. 2005.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 53 more reviews...
 It's Called HONOR, not Exploitation! August 27, 2005
LINDA VANTASSELL (Rustburg, VA USA)
59 out of 82 found this review helpful
While compelled to write a review of this album, I was further compelled to write a review after reading the review by Mrs. A. Browning, a supposed wife of a soldier, who denounced the album as exploitation and suggested that others not buy the album.
Country singers such as Trace and Toby are not exploiting our soldiers in an effort to "cash in," as Mrs. Browning suggests. Rather they are among the rare and the few who have the glandular fortitude to honor our men in uniform in this age of political incorrectness and anti-war fervor.
A true wife of a soldier would honor the sacrifice that her husband is making for his country. She wouldn't denounce it. No, it's not romantic, but it's something to be honored. This is specifically what Trace does in his song, "Arlington." He honors the sacrifice that our soldiers have made. He honors their lives and their deaths. He not only honors it, he memorializes it, capturing it in a song that will bring anyone to tears. It's a tearful subject, and it's not one that should go unappreciated.
We need to remember. We need to remember the men, their sacrifices, and their lives. Most of all, we need to remember that we wouldn't be celebrating our lives as free Americans were it not for those buried at the Arlington National Cemetary.
Trace ... thank you for honoring the dead by capturing their essence in song. I appreciate your willingness to honor the dead by singing of them in song. The hearts of those men were beautiful, and they willingly gave all for many who will never give any.
Purchase the album for the quality of the music, which is excellent. If you're anti-war and anti-Bush, perhaps, you should go visit Michael Moore's site. He has more than enough hatred to drown you in.
Songs about Trace February 18, 2006
A. Winhofer
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have to say, I've been a long-time fan of Trace Adkins. He has a very beautiful Baritone Voice when he sings that just melts your heart. All his songs have a special meaning to them, some are sad and Heartfelt, others are Happy and Upbeat. One of the stand-out songs on this album is the song "Arlington", it's a beautiful strong Patriotic song to a Fallen soldier. This album is definetly worth buying for your collection, don't miss out!!!!
Country as Country gets! February 2, 2006
Austin Dalyai (Taylorsville, UT)
9 out of 12 found this review helpful
Right off the bat I need to tell you that this CD is not filled with as much fiddle and steel as George Strait's CDs, but that doesnt matter. For everyone that gave this CD a bad review because you think Trace is Killing Country music... YOu couldnt be more out of line! Trace is not a tradidtional country singer like King George, Alan Jackson, of any number of a ton of other great singers... No no no, He is just plain country. And this CD shows it more than any of his past albums. He is a man of strong values, who always works his fingers to the bone, and loves his wife and kids. All that shows through big time on this CD. And that is what country is all about. Hard working Americans! Thats country. It doesnt matter what you dress like, or how many electric guitar players your band has, or if you have a pony tail. Come on people. Think! If you like country music at all, take a look at what it has been based on for 20+ years now. And that, my friends, is what Trace Adkins sings about. And he lives the part outside of the music as well. How many other of today's country singers can you say that about? Not a lot, that's for sure. He's Country to the letter, and that is what he sings. This CD has some of the rockingest songs Trace has ever recorded, and also has a couple of the softest and most touching ballads he has done so far. If you liked Big Time, More, or Chrome... There's no way you wont like this. If you didnt, then find a better excuse than to say he is killing Country music. He is, from what I can see, one of the main reasons country is as alive as it is today. Go ahead, ask One of the living legends we have singing today, Ill bet any of them will tell you that they admire Trace for what he does. He has been shot 6 times, lost a finger on an oil rig, play semi-pro football, married one, and only one, woman and loves her more than anything in the world, and his kids idolize him... If that isnt country, what is? Rock on Trace!
"Songs" Has A Universal Appeal March 25, 2005
T. Yap (Sydney, NSW, Australia)
23 out of 33 found this review helpful
Prime Cuts: Arlington, Honky Tonk Badonkadent, I Learned How to Love You
Despite the stiff and often aggressive competition, country music has remained sacrosanct. On the title track, "Songs about Me," Adkins uncovers the genre's tenacity: "(they are) songs about loving and living/and good hearted women and family and God/yeah they're all just songs about me." Not since Clinton Gregory's "(If It Weren't For Country Music) I'd Go Crazy," has there been a better apologetic paean. With a finesse that is moving, this bluesy guitar driven midtempo title track is only proleptic of the arete material to follow. On the whole, "Songs about Me" is perhaps this lanky Texan's most balanced and amicable CD. Attributive to the album's affectation is that most of these songs come from Music Row's finest scribes including River Rutherford, Tim Mensy, Tom Shapiro, George Teren, Shane Minor, Tony Martin and Ed Hill amongst other maestros.
Charming as the title track is, "Arlington" is even more beguiling. A sensitive ballad told from the perspective of a fallen soldier being laid to rest a "thousand stones away" from his granddad in the same field of honor, this is heart wrenching stuff. Adkins' muscular yet mesmeric baritone has never been utilized to greater effect than on the sensitive power ballad "I Learned How to Love You." Co-written by Tim Mensy and Steve Nathan, this piano and string laden number is postcard perfect for being a radio darling. Possessing the same romantic vibe is the more upbeat Shane Minor and Wendell Mobley's "Find Me a Preacher;" this time finding a lovesick Adkins ready to pounce on the thought of tying the knot.
In the wake of the successes enjoyed by more maverick acts such as Big and Rich and Gretchen Wilson, it's assuring to find major acts starting to color outside the lines. Suspending all rules of political correctness (that have given so many of Nashville's products such an artificial sheen) "Honky Tonk Badonkadent" is a salacious and rowdy barnburner that ought to make every red-blooded male proud. Packed with punch over some macho pounding drums, the feminine vile has not much celebrated with such honesty since Confederate Railroad's "Trashy Woman." On the other extreme, you will find a more sensitive Adkins on the limpid "My Heaven." Coming from the pens of Jim Collins and Chris Wallin. "My Heaven" finds a homely dad likening the celestial city with the comforts of home.
However, not all works. Veering too close to Toby Keith's in-your-face bawdy terrain is the "Baby I'm Home." Unlike Keith who is often interesting, Adkins' bluesy-rock "Baby I'm Home" with its uncalled for sensuous storyline is on the patronizing side. Equally forgettable is River Rutherford and George Teren's "Bring It On"--an average 70s rock number with that occasional fiddling just to remind you that it is country.
Nevertheless, despite a few tarnishes, there's much to savor on Adkins' sixth CD bearing the Capitol Nashville logo. This is perhaps Adkins most lyrically diverse album with all the major themes of country music covered ranging from romance to family to the honky tonks to the military. Also, there's a deeper sense of maturity evident in Adkins' nuances. This has added an emotional heft to his delivery making listening to his ballads such as "Arlington" and "I Learned How to Love You" a real treat.
Trace Adkins August 22, 2005
Mary Sitterly (Schenectady, NY USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Trace has always been a favorite of mine. This song Arlington is just fantastic. Any funeral you have been to for a Vet it gives you a chill right down your spine. It has a positive outlook to death; and it is a song that stops you right in your tracks. Trace's entire CD is great; but you have to listen to Arlington.
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