Every time - I've never had a bad experience at the Opry ever.ĮISENBERG: At this point you've released 12 studio albums, six compilation albums, but you also act. And it's just - it's a beautiful experience. And then you've got the new people and then, you know, journeymen like myself somewhere in the middle there. And that's the coolest part to me about the Opry is you've got these legends that have been doing this for decades. Every Tuesday night, Friday night, Saturday night, it's a family reunion backstage. Yeah.ĮISENBERG: And then when you return, you know, now that - when you go there, it's like a home, I'm sure.ĪDKINS: Oh, yeah. But, still, the first time you walk out on that stage, if you're human, you're petrified.ĪDKINS: You know? And I was, certainly. Did you rehearse like crazy?ĪDKINS: But, I mean, I was terrified when I went out on stage, even though I knew what I was - I felt comfortable about doing the songs I was doing. You've performed there are a lot in your career, but your first appearance - that's a big deal. history, dedicated to honoring country music and its history. It is the longest-running radio broadcast in U.S. The Opry, of course, is a big deal in the country music world. That's the warm-up.ĮISENBERG: Now, you were asked to be a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 2003. Yeah.ĮISENBERG: And what do you do to maintain it?ĮISENBERG: Just put down the drink and get on stage. I was like, OK.ĮISENBERG: So I guess your voice has pretty much always been like this if it was in your 20s?ĪDKINS: No, that would have been weird, you know?ĮISENBERG: If you're talking to this guy in your 20s when you moved to Nashville and he comments on your voice, your voice is already - has this quality.ĪDKINS: Yeah, I started singing bass in a gospel quartet when I was 17. And he walked up on stage and he said, I'll give you a record deal. And I did my - the first set, and I turned around and put my guitar down on the stand. He was like, can you sing? I was like, a little bit, you know? And I invited him to come out and hear me sing in a little club I was playing at, so - and I didn't expect him to come out, but he did. I was introduced to him at the baggage claim at the airport. He met me at the baggage claim at the airport and.ĪDKINS: Yeah. And he said that he signed you because you have the voice of a bass that cuts like a tenor.ĪDKINS: I don't know. UNIDENTIFIED AUDIENCE MEMBER: Not always.ĮISENBERG: And a producer by the name of Scott Hendricks found you. But it truly - I say this all the time, this is nothing but a hobby that got horribly out of control, you know? It's just.ĮISENBERG: But there was some intention behind it because you moved to Nashville in your 20s, and you moved to pursue music.ĪDKINS: No, I moved to get away from my ex-wife.ĪDKINS: I figured 500 miles would do the trick.
And I enjoyed that.ĮISENBERG: And then after college you are working on the oil rigs.ĮISENBERG: So around that time, you were playing, though - music - still.ĪDKINS: Yeah, it was just my hobby, you know? And I'm one of those blessed people that, something that I love to do, now I get to make a living doing it. After I tore my knee up the second time, it was over - you know, had a really cool orthopedic surgeon that told me that my career was over, you know?ĪDKINS: And that was not something that a 19-year-old kid wanted to hear.ĪDKINS: He said, well, get away from the game while you can still walk, you know? So, yeah, I went to Louisiana Tech and studied petroleum engineering and was studying music on the side, too. And what happened with the football?ĪDKINS: Yeah.
I'd never asked him why he did that either.ĮISENBERG: But you did go to college to pursue music and football. Is that right?ĪDKINS: Well, Santa brought it when I was 10.ĪDKINS: And then my dad paid this guy to give me guitar lessons.
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Please welcome Trace Adkins.ĮISENBERG: Trace, when you were a kid, your dad taught you how to play guitar. Our first guest is a country music superstar and a member of the Grand Ole Opry. JONATHAN COULTON: This is ASK ME ANOTHER, NPR's hour of puzzles, word games and trivia coming to you from Nashville, Tenn.
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