After leaving college, he worked at an oil rig. A walk-on offensive lineman on the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team, Adkins left the team after his freshman season due to a knee injury, without ever playing in a game.:26 Adkins never graduated. Later, Adkins attended Louisiana Tech University in Ruston. His musical interest came at an early age when his father taught him to play the guitar.Īt Sarepta High School, since defunct, Adkins joined a gospel music group called the New Commitments. His maternal uncle was the Christian musician James W. Adkins has two brothers, Clay Adkins, and Scott Devin Adkins (1971-1993), who died at age twenty-one in a pickup truck accident near Plain Dealing in Bossier Parish.
His parents are the former Peggy Carraway, who was the high school sweetheart of his father, Aaron Doyle Adkins (1942-2014), who worked for forty-seven years at International Paper Container Division in Springhill. Adkins (1921-1987) and the former Mavis Giles, later Mavis Tilley (1923-1999). His paternal grandparents were Rayford D. He has appeared in numerous films, including The Lincoln Lawyer, Moms' Night Out and I Can Only Imagine.Īdkins was born in Sarepta, Louisiana. In addition, Adkins has written an autobiography entitled A Personal Stand: Observations and Opinions from a Free-Thinking Roughneck, which was released in late 2007. He has also made several appearances on television, including as a panelist on the game shows Hollywood Squares and Pyramid, as a 2008 finalist and as the 2013 winner on The All Star Celebrity Apprentice, as the voice for recurring character Elvin on King of the Hill, and in television commercial voice-overs for KFC and Firestone. Adkins is widely known for his distinctive bass-baritone singing voice. All but one of his studio albums have received gold or platinum certification in the United States his highest-selling to date is 2005's Songs About Me, which has been certified 2× Multi-Platinum for shipping two million copies. "I Left Something Turned on at Home" went to No. In addition, he has charted more than 20 singles on the Billboard country music charts, including the Number One hits "(This Ain't) No Thinkin' Thing", "Ladies Love Country Boys", and "You're Gonna Miss This", which peaked in 1997, 2007, and 2008, respectively. Since then, Adkins has released ten more studio albums and two Greatest Hits compilations. Adkins made his debut in 1996 with the album Dreamin' Out Loud, released on Capitol Records Nashville. In 1998, Adkins appeared on the PBS music program Austin City Limits (season 23). Tracy Darrell Adkins (born January 13, 1962) is an American country singer and actor.
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