Trace’s book, A PERSONAL STAND: Observations and Opinions from a Freethinking Roughneck will soon be released for the first time in paperback. His maverick manifesto on politics, personal responsibility, fame, parenting and remaining true to one’s self, hit book shelves December 30, 2008.

The CMT Online Awards represent the most popular, the most outrageous and the most compelling video content on CMT.com in 2008. Trace has been nominated for Number One Digitally Active Male Artist. The awards honor CMT.com’s best digital moments of 2008 including live performances, music videos and original webisodes. Fan-voted in the truest sense, the winner in each category received the highest numbers of streams, clicks and views. Be sure to tune in to the 2008 CMT Online Awards Nominee Show on Dec. 19. The awards show airs on December 26th! more!

All About... focuses on the life, career and philosophies of country music stars Johnny Reid, Brooks & Dunn, Kellie Pickler, Aaron Pritchett and Trace Adkins. Each half-hour, beginning on Jan. 5 at 7 pm ET, follows a different star's road to success through interviews and video clips. Learn more at www.cmt.ca

If you missed Trace's appearance on The Bonnie Hunt Show, don't worry! You can check out video clips here! Trace talked with Bonnie about his thoughts on kids recitals and performed "Muddy Water."

Join host Taylor Swift and a cast of surprise guests for the official countdown of the Top 50 videos you, THE FANS, voted as the best of 2008! This year’s voting broke previous records for the Top 50 Countdown and the Top 50 Videos of 2008 Sweepstakes logging over a half-million entries from Nov. 3 through Dec. 3. The top 10 slots were shared by superstars Trace Adkins, Alan Jackson, Trisha Yearwood, and many more. Tune in beginning Monday, Dec. 29th at 8:00 PM ET. For more information on GAC’s Top 50 Videos of 2008 and the nominated artists and videos, visit www.gactv.com/top50.

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Public Service Announcements Will Air at 1,600 Theaters around the Nation

Nashville, TN & Springfield, Ohio - December 19, 2008 -- A Hollywood great and a country music icon have volunteered their time to film spots in support of The Honor Flight Network, which is a nonprofit organization that arranges and finances trips for America's veterans to visit their war memorials in Washington, D.C.

Clint Eastwood and Trace Adkins each filmed a 60-second spot to help raise money for honor flights. The spots will air before feature films at over 1,600 movie theatres nationwide. Each spot ends by encouraging audience members to donate to the program.

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On the Monday, December 15th episode of "The Doctors," Trace will discuss his daughter's food allergies with the show's team of doctors. Be sure to mark your calendars and Tune In!

Country Superstar Trace Adkins has generously donated the jeans right out of his closet, and the shirt off his back for the Jayron's Hope Charity Auction. Trace also donated a A Limited Edition Waffle House Tee Signed by Trace Adkins . These are rare items and they make the perfect gifts for Christmas! Jayron is a 3 year old boy with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. The proceeds from this auction will go to help offset the cost to battle this disease. Be a part of Jayron's Hope and BID NOW!

Nashville based MEG / AEG Live concert producers for the New Year’s Eve show in Pikeville, KY. confirmed that there has been a talent change for the December 31st concert at Kentucky Expo Center.

With the cancellation of the Nashville New Year’s Eve date, Trace Adkins has decided to take off the remaining days of 2008 to spend with his family.

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NASHVILLE, TN – December 10th 2008 – With a keen recognition of the troubled economic times, artist and promoter representatives for the Nashville News Year’s Eve concert have announced that the Dec. 31st event at the Sommet Center has been cancelled.

“For the past 12 years, we’ve been fortunate to have the biggest names in music celebrate New Year’s Eve in Nashville, but there is no denying that our core audience has been financially challenged by the hard realities of a flattened economy, says Steve Moore, of MEG / AEG Live.

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It’s the time when music writers start reflecting on the best music they’ve heard during the past 12 months, and four of CMT.com’s frequent contributors boldly accepted the assignment to come up with their list of the year’s Top 10 albums. Alison Bonaguro picked Trace Adkins' new album X (Ten)

Trace Adkins, X (Ten)
For anyone (like me) who is a sucker for that sexy cowboy shtick, this one plays very well from all-out gospel numbers to hysterical, husky shuffles. more!

BID NOW on handwritten lyrics for Trace's hit "You're Gonna Miss This" handwritten by co-writer Ashley Gorley. Nominated for the 2008 CMA Music Awards, You're Gonna Miss This is in consideration for Song of The Year. The song spent 3 weeks atop the country charts earlier this year, was used as the farewell theme on Nashville Star, and was performed by Trace Adkins on the season finale of NBC's Celebrity Apprentice. It is also nominated for Single of The Year (awarded to the artist and producer), and Music Video of The Year (awarded to the director). more!

Country superstar Trace Adkins has received two Grammy nominations for his monster hit, "You're Gonna Miss This" in the categories for Best Male Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Song. The nominations mark the first Grammy nods he's received throughout his illustrious 12-year music career.

"You're Gonna Miss This" has been an especially huge hit for Adkins this past year. Written by Nashville songwriters Lee Thomas Miller and Ashley Gorley, the song remained #1 for three consecutive weeks earlier this year and recently nabbed multiple 2008 CMA nominations. It has also just been named one of Billboard's Top Ten Hot Country Songs for 2008.

Winners will be announced during the 51st Annual GRAMMY Awards to be held at the Staples Center In Los Angeles on Feb. 8, 2009 and broadcast live on CBS from 8 - 11:30 p.m ET. more!

Trace Adkins designed a doll for charity! Trace Adkins’ doll is a face-off between Adkins and Donald Trump. Adkins recently excelled in a season of The Celebrity Apprentice, and pictures of this experience are scattered over his doll. It is covered in black and white striped paper with a headshot of each man on the doll heads. Adkins’ side is wearing a brown cowboy hat, while Trump’s side has a mop of blond hair. The back of the doll features a large signature from Adkins.

Trace Adkins’ doll measures approximately 12" x 8" x 1.5" and comes with a certificate of authentication confirming its origin and his autograph as original.

All proceeds go to the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tennessee. BID NOW!

Brian Mansfield - USA Today

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No other country singer has a wider gap than Trace Adkins between the artist he envisions himself becoming and the act his audience expects him to be. Not that there's anything wrong with songs about honky-tonk badonkadonks, horny truckers or hillbilly bling — that kind of material has allowed Adkins to develop his career for 12 years — but Adkins has long believed he had more to offer. He's also got the voice, a rumbling, commanding presence, to back up that belief.

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The Nashville City Paper
by Ron Wynn

The bombastic Trace Adkins baritone has been responsible the past couple of years for a number of sparkling hits, and his latest, which will be released Tuesday, continues his string.

Besides the hit “Muddy Water,” Adkins shows off his soulful/balladeer side with “I Can’t Out Run You,” blazes away with power and authority on “Sometimes a Man Takes a Drink,” then also explores more sentimental/light territory with “Sweet” and “All I Ask for Anymore.”

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Thom Jurek, All Music Guide

If you didn't know better, the blasting guitar riff on "Sweet," the opening track on Trace Adkins'X (Ten), might be mistaken for one off a .38 Special track from the late '70s. The track has the single potential of one of Adkins' many hits. The song has an infectious hook in its refrain -- and yes, it rocks. But by the time the set's second number, "Happy to Be Here," commences with a similar big guitar entrance -- albeit on a midtempo ballad -- "Sweet" isn't even a memory. And the same happens for the latter cut when "All I Ask for Anymore" arrives with strings, an acoustic guitar, and a pedal steel whispering in that big gritty baritone of Adkins. It's a ballad drenched in personal truth, and gratitude that is profound. Adkins is actually trying to get across something of a "message" here, albeit one that is humble in scope.

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By BRIAN DUGGER

Earlier this month, Trace Adkins was walking the red carpet in Nashville before the Country Music Association Awards show when a TV crew stopped him and asked how his tour with Alan Jackson was going.

Adkins, who along with Jackson is one of the shyest guys in country music, deadpanned: "It's been quiet."

It's interesting that such a quiet guy has released some of country music's sexiest and boldest songs, like "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk," "Hot Momma," and "Chrome."

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