Trace Adkins

No, 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.

Yeah.

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 Hendricks' office.

But

I thought it could be a single, but I didn't know if they were going to have the guts to do it.

That's one of those you just didn't know.

I've pulled the trigger on a couple of them in my career that the label was going, this is not going to work.