Trace Adkins

I never get tired of singing that song.

Every night I get to that one in the set list.

I have a real appreciation for that.

That's the one that put me on the map.

That one really started it all.

No.

Girl in Texas was the first single, but Every Light in the House is on was a top five, so it was a legit hit.

I think Girl in Texas got to 17 or 18 or something like that.

You know, somebody told me really early on in my career, I think it was Bill Coutinho at Capitol Records, he said, look, man, when you have a song that gets into the top five, some even top ten, but top five especially...

The public out there, the ones that don't look at the charts and stuff, they don't know the difference between a number five and a number one because chances are in the market where they live, that song was played in heavy rotation.

So it got played just as much as the number one record did.

And then there were a few markets where you didn't get that kind of push, and that's the only reason your song didn't go to number one.

But for the majority of the country, it was the same as a number one record.

I had some songs like that, you know, where they would come out and they would be big hits in certain markets and then other stations just refused to play it and you'd do a show there and nobody knew that song, you know, but that was a different time.

You like that one?

I like that one, yeah.

We do it a little differently now.

Why?

It's got a little different groove to it.

Got bored playing it so much?