Trace Adkins: The Way I Wanna Go - (August 07, 2021)
Showtime: 8:00pm (Opener) | Doors open 1 hour prior to show.
Prices: Tickets Only - $59.95 - $129.95 | Dinner and Theater - $78.95 - $149.95 (plus tax & fees)
This Concert will be held at the Blue Gate Performing Arts Center
This concert or show has concluded.
Prices: Tickets Only - $59.95 - $129.95 | Dinner and Theater - $78.95 - $149.95 (plus tax & fees)
This Concert will be held at the Blue Gate Performing Arts Center
This concert or show has concluded.
Working with some of Nashville's most respected songwriters, Adkins continues to find ways to connect with his fans through music while recording what he describes as autobiographical songs. "Over the years people have asked me, 'How could we get to know you?' Well, if you really wanted to know who Trace Adkins is, go back and listen to the album cuts on the records I've done over my career. Those are the songs that reflect where I was in my head at the time I made that record." It's an interesting change of perspective for Adkins, however, when he hits the road for a slew of his now legendary live gigs. Where the studio offers unique insight into his current state of mind, onstage-when revisiting his classics like "You're Gonna Miss This" or "Every Light in the House" nearly every evening, he says he's taken back, if only for a brief while, to earlier moments in his life.
"It's hard to describe, I gotta be honest," he says of being overcome with emotion and reflection when trotting out some of his time-tested cuts for adoring audiences. "I've gotten to the point now where I'll be onstage singing 'Every Light in the House Is On' and I look down at the crowd and realize that person right there wasn't even alive when I recorded that song," he says, laughing. "To watch their face go, Oh, that's a cool hook, it's like, 'Oh my god, that's the first time that person ever heard that song!'" Adkins says he's profoundly touched that he serves as an inspiration to a younger generation of country artists, much in the way he revered icons like Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard when he first moved to Nashville. "I want to be in that position," he says of taking the reigns as an elder statesman of the genre. "I want to be looked at that way. I want those guys to know they can walk up to me and ask me anything and know I'm here for them and I'll help them however I can. I relish that position."
With one million followers on Spotify and over one billion spins on Pandora (10 million spins per month), the longstanding country icon has yet to lose any of his trademark passion and killer instinct for his craft. The 58-year-old is as fired up as ever to be back on the road this year, taking his music to the fans once again. "I get a kick out of it. I still enjoy the camaraderie, the band of brothers, your crew and your band. I'm an old jock. I like team sports," he says of his continued passion for touring. "I like it when the new guy is closing for me, and we turn it up a notch or two and just absolutely kick his ass. You go out and put a boot in somebody's ass!"
Ask Adkins where he goes from here and he'll say it's quite simple: keep doing what he knows and loves. Performing. Creating. Inspiring. He loves it. And, he adds, he knows so many of his lifelong fans, and new ones to boot, do too. "I'm gonna go out there and find those people," he says with genuine enthusiasm for the coming months. "I'm gonna bring a band and turn it up real loud! And we're gonna have a good time!"