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List Price: $18.98 | | Label: Capitol Nashville
Salesrank: 2676
Released: November 24, 2008 |
| Our Price: $11.77 |
| Used Price: $9.25 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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X (TEN) Track Listing:
1. Sweet
2. Happy To Be Here
3. All I Ask For Anymore
4. Let's Do That Again
5. Hauling One Thing
6. Better Than I Thought It'd Be
7. Marry For Money
8. Til The Last Shot's Fired
9. I Can't Outrun You
10. Hillbilly Rich
11. Sometimes A Man Takes A Drink
12. Muddy Water
Editorial Review:
Trace Adkins "X" (TEN) will give fans anything and everything they have always loved about his music over the past 12 years, including the gospel-and bluegrass-sired song and his current hit single "Muddy Water." In addition, there are songs like "Sweet," which turns a common national expression into a tight and particularized country tune, and "I Can't Out Run You," a vocal tour de force about the weight of romantic obsession in which Adkins records a haunting country soul song, in 2008, Sinatra-style. These songs show how both sides of Adkins' music work with a great stylistic co-cooperation: "Hillbilly Rich" wouldn't be nearly as good without the rooted center of Adkins' steady, nuanced baritone, and "Sometimes a Man Takes a Drink" could be tradition merely without his ability to infuse heritage styles with modern tensions and vibes. And the album features as well a song like "Till The Last Shot's Fired," which looks at military history and personal sacrifice, and in which Adkins' vocal is augmented by the rare presence of the West Point Cadet Choir." An energetic tune built around a heavy guitar lick -- Adkins introduces the song as "a little funkabilly" -- called "Better Than I Thought It'd Be" and a thoughtful orchestrated ballad, "All I Ask For Anymore," round out the album.
X (TEN) Reviews:
Trace Adkins 
2009-08-09 - This is probably not my favorite Trace Adkins CD, but it's still wonderful. He gives us lots of variety on this one, such as the humorous "I'm gonna marry for money", follwed by the heart breaking, "Arlington". His voice is as strong as ever, & he really delivers. Trace never disappoints me!
X (ten)
2009-05-25 - If you like Trace Adkins, you'll like this album. The older he gets, the better he is, LOOKS and VOICE!! I have almost all of his music and you can hear the progression thru the years. He's great!!
very good cd
2009-05-08 - The cd of trace adkins was very good and
evrything came in good shape. I like the CD
very very much. I would have people by the
CD though Amazon because it quick and fast
Jim
Terrible POP music 
2009-03-30 - This man has ruined "country" music. He is pop and has dollar signs flashing in his eyes. I can't stand hearing his name and country music in the same sentence. Hank would commit suicide if he could hear this today. I hope him and Kenny Chesney will take Tim McGraw and all go hang out on Kenny's island so Randy Rogers, Jason Boland, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Wade Bowen and many others will get the respect they so desperately deserve. Trace is nothing but a marketing stunt and I have ZERO respect for all the worthless, mindless EXPLICIT his label has put out in his name. Support live, real music. Not this. I expect to see him and Britney Spears on tour together sometime real soon!
Only Trace
2009-03-24 - Only Trace could take this group of songs and make you feel every word and note of them from the first guitar lick of "Sweet" to the final chords of "Muddy Water". I've heard plenty of singers over the years that could pull off the fun songs, like "Sweet" or "Hillbilly Rich" or the ballads like "Let's Do That Again" or "I Can't Outrun You" (Artists like Big & Rich, Chris Cagle, Tim McGraw come to mind). But I don't think there is anyone out there that could take the extremes that Trace takes on (and everything in between) and make it so believable. Usually there's a track or two (depends on the artist) that I just don't think fit either the artist or the group of songs that have been selected for the disc. I have yet to hear anything from Trace that isn't believable, and his discs cover such a wide range of sounds and topics that it's rare to find a song that doesn't fit. And if you don't at least listen to "'Til The Last Shot's Fired", you are missing out on one of the best songs that Trace has ever recorded!
