Trace Adkins

Got bored playing it so much?

No, we just started.

It just kind of morphed into this thing where it's got a little bit more of an R&B groove to it now than it did on the record, and I just like it better that way.

I love that song.

I don't want that chiseled on my tombstone.

You know, that's the reason I haven't retired yet is because I keep hoping I'll do something to top Badonkadonk, so that's not the only thing I'm remembered for, you know, because, I mean, come on.

It's not the most high-browed tune that's ever come out, you know, so anyway.

But I just, I mean, when I heard that song, it made me laugh out loud and laugh.

I got the demo of it, and Randy Houser and Dallas Davidson and Jamie Johnson wrote that, and this is the story of it.

They were all down at the Wild Horse one night, drunk, up on the balcony, watching them do a line dancing lesson, and somebody said, oh, look at the badonkadonk, and then one of them said honky-tonk, badonkadonk, and then the next day after they sobered up, they wrote it, and then Jamie...

sang the demo so the demo that i got of the song was country ass jamie johnson singing that song and it was the funniest thing i'd ever heard it made me laugh and i told scott hendricks i said we got to cut this you know we got to cut this ended up i did it with dan huff but i heard it first in scott hendrick's office but

did you think that would be a single or did you cut up thinking it would just be fun for the album i thought it could be a single but i didn't know if they were gonna have you know the guts to do it you know because it could that's one of those you just didn't know i mean i've pulled the trigger on a couple of them in my career that the label was going this is not going to work i'm like yeah it is

And it didn't, you know.

Oh, and it still didn't.

Yeah.

I was totally wrong, like Brown Chicken, Brown Cow.

I thought, oh, my God, everybody's going to love that.

No, they didn't.

There were about 60% of the panel.

They told me, they said, we think about 60% of the panel will play this song and about 40% aren't going to touch it just because it's nasty.