Proud to Be Here review - Trace Adkins

Not long ago, it would’ve been hard to imagine this NASCAR-courting Nashville star singing about ballet shoes, training wheels, and kittens, as he does on ”Just Fishin’,” the lead single from his 10th studio album. But Proud to Be Here furthers Adkins’ transformation from mischievous lout into upstanding family man: On ”Million Dollar View,” it’s not some hottie’s honky-tonk badonkadonk he’s taking in, but the scene ”right here in my living room in this little tin-roof house.” B

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The reflective title track
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