6) What is his guilty pleasure?
Tractors. The “Ladies Love Country Boys” singer admits to tractors taking the role of his guilty pleasure. “I’ve got three tractors and I can’t justify having three. I guess that’s a guilty pleasure,” Trace told Taste of Country.
7) What is the worst thing that’s ever happened to Trace?
In 1994, Trace was shot in the chest by his second wife, Julie Curtis. The pair got into an argument over his drinking habits and his wife grabbed the family’s handgun and as he told People in a June 23, 1997 interview, “Being a macho guy like I am, I tried to scare it out of her hand,” he explained. “I said, ‘Give me the gun, or I’m gonna take it away from you and beat your damn brains out with it.’ I would never have done that, but I told her in hopes that it would scare her.” Instead the gun went off. “[The bullet] went through both my lungs and both ventricles of my heart,” stated Adkins. Surprisingly enough, the singer didn’t press charges against Curtis and Trace lived to tell about it. The couple divorced after three years of marriage.
8) How many kids does Trace have?
Trace has five daughters: Tarah, Sarah, Mackenzie, Brianna, and Trinity.
9) Has the singer ever written a book?
Yes! Adkins has published two books; Then They Do (2003) and A Personal Stand: Observations and Opinions from a Freethinking Roughneck (2007).
10) What appendage did the country singer lose?
His pinky finger! While cutting a bucket with a knife, he accidentally chopped off his pinky finger on his left hand. Trace had the doctors sew it back on so he could continue to play guitar.
