{"id":17631,"date":"2019-08-15T23:05:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T05:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1810332"},"modified":"2019-08-15T23:05:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T05:05:01","slug":"trace-adkins-had-the-low-deep-big-voice-blake-shelton-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/trace-adkins-had-the-low-deep-big-voice-blake-shelton-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"Trace Adkins Had the \u201cLow, Deep, Big Voice\u201d Blake Shelton Wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> 10m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

https:\/\/wmna.sh\/hellright
It starts with the symphony of summer: crickets chirping.<\/p>\n

But that is only Reason No. 1 why the brand new duet from Blake Shelton and Trace Adkins, \u201cHell Right,\u201d is going to get us through the rest of the summer. Reason No. 2 is what comes after the cricket intro.<\/p>\n

The lyrics tell a few stories about how, according to the song, you ain\u2019t done nothing if you did it halfway, if you\u2019re gonna raise hell then you better damn raise hell right<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In one of the stories, a couple boys clock out of work, head to the liquor store, consider buying a fifth of something, but end up buying the whole damn handle. (If you haven\u2019t brushed up on your liquor vocabulary lately, a fifth is a measly 25.4 ounces while a handle has 59.2 ounces of the good stuff.)<\/p>\n

In another verse, some girls in cowboy boots turn off \u201cOld Town Road\u201d and turn on a little Hank Jr.<\/p>\n

And then the chorus gives you some pretty definitive instructions on how to raise hell right:

Hell right
Hell right
Everybody\u2019s throwin\u2019 down on a Friday night
Somewhere in America
There\u2019s a bottle to burn and a fire to a light
You ain\u2019t done nothing if you did it halfway
If you\u2019re gonna raise hell then you better damn raise hell right<\/em><\/p>\n

Shelton and Adkins have a lot of mutual respect for one another, going all the way back to the late 1990s, when they were both on the verge of releasing a string of No. 1 hits. For Adkins, his first chart-topper was in 1997 with \u201c(This Ain\u2019t) No Thinkin\u2019 Thing.\u201d And for Shelton, his first was in 2001 with \u201cAustin.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Shelton didn\u2019t just want Adkins on the song because that\u2019s what friends are for. He was after something only Adkins has.<\/p>\n

\u201cI decided it would be great to have Trace Adkins on this record, just because he\u2019s got that low, deep, big voice. And he\u2019s so great at the ad-lib stuff, and he just brings a certain quality to any recording that nobody else can touch,\u201d Shelton said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, the guy\u2019s got so much personality in his voice, and I still think that he\u2019s one of the most underrated country artists out there. So I called him and asked if he would be on the record with me, and he said something that was close to \u2019Hell right,\u2019 but it was a different cuss word.\u201d<\/p>\n

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