Trace Adkins - Dangerous Man

The title track, "Dangerous Man," is up first. In it, the male is describing how ordinary and predictable he is - that is until the lights go out and he's alone with his lady. After a few nibbles on the neck, "I can't be held responsible for what might happen next," Trace sings. A woman's high-class mother and father told their daughter never to date men below their privileged status, but once she moves down south to go to college she understands why "Ladies Love Country Boys." When she comes home to visit the folks she's riding in a pickup truck & singing along to Hank Williams, Jr. songs & holding the hand of a man with a southern drawl. "I Came Here To Live" slows things down a bit and is one of those songs you really should listen to carefully as it plays because the lyrics are very moving. The album's first single "Swing" is a song that will surely get stuck in your head - how could it not with the ever-repetitive "Swing batter batter, swing batter batter, swing batter batter, swing" lyrics peppered throughout the three minute and thirty-six second tune. Just don't confuse "Swing" with Trent Tomlinson's "Hey Batter Batter." They are different. "Ain't No Woman Like You" sends out a message of appreciation for the fairer sex.

People have their ways of feeling "High," but instead of drinking whiskey or smoking a lot of cigarettes it's little things like driving down the freeway that make the man in this song feel good. Standing on the stage and hearing fans sing his songs back to him - there's no greater feeling in the world to him. The man who would walk a thousand miles to avoid a fight might just get riled up if you talk bad about his momma, his God, the flag on his shirt, or his woman because those are "Fightin' Words." He's fine with squabbles about types of cars or the North or the South but you best not get any more personal. Upbeat "Ride" is about a man's joy in traveling from town to town. "Somewhere inside me there's a new direction" he sings along with "Can't go to sleep without that diesel singing." In the next song "Words Get In The Way" and they seem to make the situation worse, so the man proposes they just "give in" and make love because "it's easy to see she wants the same things he does." It's not at all a macho type of song. For the Trace fans who loved the video remix of "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk," it is included as the last track on the album.