Greatest Hits Collection, Vol. 1 (CD)

Part of the second wave of neo-traditionalists, former oil rig worker Trace Adkins found a decent amount of success in the early during the late 1990s. Then troubles with the law and dwindling record sales forced Adkins from the spotlight. The occasional Top 10 country charter kept Adkins on Nashville's radar, but it was 2005's single "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk" and its subsequent video that relaunched Adkins and positioned him closer to the "hick-hop" movement exemplified by the likes of Big & Rich and Kid Rock than to popular Nashville hat acts.

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• Release Date: July 8, 2003
• Label: Capitol/EMI Records
• UPC: 724358151206
• WAPI (Tower ID): 105781137
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #4498 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
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• #50 in Contemporary Country (See Top 100 Contemporary Country Bestsellers)

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This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

Producers: Scott Hendricks, Trey Bruce, Dann Huff, Paul Worley, Bobby Terry.

Recorded between 1996 & 2002.

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

The optimistically titled GREATEST HITS COLLECTION VOL. 1 encapsulates the first seven years in the career of Trace Adkins, who made a huge splash on the country scene with his 1996 debut. That auspicious album is represented by the hits "(This Ain't No) Thinkin' Thing," "There's a Girl in Texas," and "I Left Something Turned on at Home," all of which presented Adkins as the acceptable face of new country, polished enough for '90s Nashville, but with roots enough to give him credibility (he'd even done some time in a gospel group).

Successive albums followed an essentially similar path, mixing ballads and honky-tonkers in equal measure. The title track of 2001's CHROME strays a bit from the pattern, sounding like a mix of Shania Twain and Steve Miller, but one of the two new, previously unreleased tracks is the brightest indication of Adkins's future. "Welcome to Hell" is a post-9/11 song that's miles ahead of Alan Jackson and Toby Keith's efforts toward that end, replacing breast-beating jingoism and intellectual laziness with a much more subtle, even humorous approach well-served by Adkins's rich baritone.

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