In this video clip from CMT, country music star Trace Adkins talks about teaming up with actor Stephen Baldwin for the video to Adkins' song, "Muddy Water."
In an interview with CMT, Adkins says the first time he heard the song:
I related to it. That's the way my life is. To me, it just kind of said, "This is how I was raised." The first kind of music that I sang was gospel music. I sang bass in a gospel quartet before I began singing in honky-tonks because that was the first door that opened for me, and this was my way of saying I haven't forgotten that. I know where I come from, and it's still very important to me. I don't want that to be lost -- and also to say to my mother that the way I turned out's not her fault.We've all at one time -- or a lot of us anyway -- have been that prodigal that strayed and went down a different road that led us to a bad place, but that's what this song says. There's a place for us to go back to. It's still there.
Adkins asked Baldwin, with whom he appeared with on "The Celebrity Apprentice" (Adkins came in second to British entertainment critic Piers Morgan) to play the lead in the video, and insisted with producers on a literal interpretation of the song's lyrics:
Eighteen wheeler dropped me off at that city limits sign
Sunday morning sunlight hurt my eyes
It's a long way from where I been back to my home town
But there's a man in me I need to drown
CHORUS:
Baptize me in that muddy water
Wash me clean in amazing grace
I ain't been living like I aughta
Baptize me in that muddy water
Made my way to the church at the end of the dirt road
Dragging what was left of my soul
I could see the saints out back on the river bank
And I could hear forgiveness calling out my name
For more about Trace Adkins, visit his website.
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This song and video is fabulous. I love them both. Trace and Steven, this is YOUR movie. Get to it!!!
This video is wonderful.
I remember seeing them both on Apprentice, & they sort of got along. Stephen was kind of a wild card of an unknown suit, which created distance occassionally it appeared, but to see them get together again is great. I think they're both a couple of peas out of the same pod so to speak in some very basic, fundamental & decent ways.
This video shows that they both care and that they both are on that same page that matters, no matter what other differences or annoyances might come up.
Bravo, guys.
I hope you two produce a movie.
It'd be a good one, I know. Good subject matter & plot & I'm pretty sure that redemption through belief in God's grace would be the theme of the whole thing. Something so many people *really* need to see & hear now, guys. DO IT!
Kevin Kendall
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