ADKINS, TRACE
(*1962)
ADKINS, TRACE (b. Tracy Darrell A., Springhill, La., January 13, 1962) Adkins, a bass-voiced, big-hatted country hunk star of the late 1990s, is the son of a paper-mill worker in rural Louisiana, where Adkins was raised in the town of Sarepta. He performed in a local GOSPEL group, The New Commitment , while still in high school, singing bass and appearing on two locally issued albums. After graduation Adkins attended Louisiana Tech to study petroleum engineering and played on the university's…