Something's going on... Trace Adkins, California State Fair; photos and words

Trace Adkins, California State Fair, 2017

(Full photo gallery click here)

I don't listen to country, much. I'm the person on the red-eye in Trace Adkins' Songs About Me. More about this here... but... this man's voice. And this man's songs. Yep.

Trace Adkins

The crowd was huge at California State Fair on Thursday evening. All the seats were taken; people were crowded against the barriers, up across the bridge, and sitting on the grass by the lagoon.

Trace Adkins, California State Fair, 2017

The show included songs from throughout Trace's career to date, including Something's Going On from his latest album of the same name, right back to one of the oldest songs, There's a Girl in Texas;  Just Fishin', You're Going To Miss This, Every Light in the House... a cover of Gregg Allman's I'm No Angell.. and of course, Brown Chicken Brown Cow and Honky Tonk Badonkadonk. (I don't suppose he can do a show without those last two. He's so much more than those two songs.)

Trace Adkinis

Trace Adkins' new album, Something's Going On, is available now at your usual place for buying music!

Click here to see all the photos from Thursday evening's Trace Adkins' show at California State Fair. For tour dates, click here on Facebook or here on Trace Adkin's website.

(There's something wrong about all-seated concerts. I found the dancing people. We were outside the barrier, on the bridge, cameras and all. You know where to find me, after the first two or three songs.)

At risk of repeating myself... I don't listen to country, much. I'm more hard rock/metal/prog. I'm the person on the red-eye in Trace Adkins' Songs About Me. but... this man's voice. THIS MAN'S VOICE. Check out Trace Adkins' acting career, too. Standouts include cameo roles in The Lincoln Lawyer and more recently, Deepwater Horizon. I'm still waiting for him to kick Tom Cruise out of the Reacher role. You know Trace would do a far better job.

And... if you like what Five Finger Death Punch do for military veterans, check out what Trace Adkins does, too. (Now there's an idea. A show with both Trace Adkins and Five Finger Death Punch. I'm not crazy. Someone else has already built a YouTube playlist with songs from both artists.)

Trace Adkins, Golden 1 Stage, California State Fair, 2017

See also review and photos of the 2013 show at Sunrise Mall, Citrus Heights.