Nashville, TN (Top40 Charts/ Sunshine Sachs) Trace Adkins' 11th studio album, Love Will... was released last week by Show Dog-Universal Music as the country star won NBC's All-Star Celebrity Apprentice with over $1.5 million raised for the American Red Cross. The album is available on iTunes https://smarturl.it/ituneslw.
After street week performances on the Today Show, Fox & Friends, SiriusXM's Sounds of Summer broadcast and the live Celebrity Apprentice Finale, Adkins now readies to serve as an Honorary Grand Marshall in the 2013 National Memorial Day Parade in Washington, DC. He will be featured on cover of Country Weekly (on-stands 5/24) and perform on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on June 12th.
The album's first single, "Watch The World End With You," features two-time Grammy winning singer/songwriter Colbie Caillat. Trace recently asked fans to submit videos and photos that match the message of undying love.
The fan submissions were so touching, an online video has been launched with highlights. Of the track, USA TODAY declares, "Not many guys could pull off a love song about the apocalypse, but danged if Adkins doesn't make it sound romantic."
"Watch The World End With You" Fan Video - https://smarturl.it/WTWEFANYOUTUBE
Another online highlight comes from 11-year old reporter Gracelyn Mansfield, who earned charming responses from Adkins about his new album, his Apprentice team preferences (Omarosa or Gary!), and collaborators Colbie Caillat and Exile.
Surrounding the album's release, critics have also weighed in:
ASSOCIATED PRESS - "… the tall, muscular former oil rigger concentrates on romantic themes, some of which push at the steamier edges of conservative country music conventions - as on his cover of the Exile pop hit "Kiss You All Over.""
COUNTRY WEEKLY - "Love Will . . . isn't a collection of schmoopy, saccharine ballads. The songs are solid and lyrically diverse, exploring love—from the unrequited kind of "So What If I Do" to the eternal in "Watch the World End" to the downright heartbreaking in "If the Sun Comes Up.""
GAC - "Trace has always had fantastic range, but Love Will… features many dynamic performances where simple inflections and nuances add whole new dimensions. An emotion as rich and complicated as love can certainly mean something different from one person to the next, but on Love Will…, Trace succeeds in giving listeners an insightful and personal look at what it means to him."
At the heart of the excitement is an emotional album from the outspoken roughneck. With vocal variety and a thematic focus, Love Will… tackles the world's greatest emotion and features two-time Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter, Colbie Caillat, the esteemed Harlem Gospel Choir and rock/country veterans, Exile. The impressive list of producers includes Tony Brown, Mark Wright, Frank Rogers, Kenny Beard and Mickey Cones.
Love Will… Full Track Listing:
1. When I Stop Loving You*
2. So What If I Do**
3. Come See Me***
4. Right Now**
5. Every One Of You**
6. The Altar Of Your Love***
7. Kiss You All Over (Featuring Exile)***
8. If The Sun Comes Up***
9. Say No To A Woman
10. Watch The World End (Featuring Colbie Caillat)
11. Love Will (Featuring Harlem Gospel Choir)
Produced by Frank Rogers
*Produced by Tony Brown & Mickey Jack Cones
**Produced by Mark Wright, Kenny Beard & Mickey Jack Cones
***Produced by Kenny Beard & Mickey Jack Cones
ABOUT TRACE ADKINS: Trace Adkins' trademark baritone has powered countless hits to the top of the charts and turned albums into Platinum plaques, selling over 10 million albums, cumulatively. His hit list includes "(This Ain't) No Thinkin' Thing," "You're Gonna Miss This," "Ladies Love Country Boys," "Songs About Me," "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk ," "I Left Something Turned On At Home," "Every Light In The House," "Hillbilly Bone (Blake Shelton and Trace Adkins)," "The Rest Of Mine," "Hot Mama," "I'm Tryin'," "Just Fishin'," "Then They Do," "Chrome," and "More."
The Grammy-nominated member of the Grand Ole Opry is a television personality, actor, author, spokesman for the Wounded Warrior Program and the American Red Cross and has performed seven USO Tours. Trace's integrity and wry humor served him well as he was named winner of NBC's The Celebrity Apprentice in May 2013 with over $1.5 million raised for the American Red Cross.
In his 2007 autobiography, A Personal Stand: Observations and Opinions from a Freethinking Roughneck, the 6'6" oil-rigger recounted his rise to fame, brushes with death and battles with personal demons. The world's biggest alpha-male also discusses his role as father to five daughters.
Trace has played a tough as nails biker in The Lincoln Lawyer (starring Matthew McConaughey), he developed and hosted GAC's "Great American Heroes" honoring every-day Americans doing great things and he has hosted the American Country Awards on FOX for three consecutive years.
In 2011, Trace album, Proud To Be Here debuted atop the Billboard Country Chart with the Top Ten hit, "Just Fishin'." His eleventh studio album, Love Will… was released May 14, 2013 on Show Dog-Universal Music.
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