trace adkins i left something turned on at home

TRACE ADKINS I LEFT SOMETHING TURNED ON AT HOME MOVIE

I remember being pleasantly surprised hearing it again on the radio in my bedroom around late 2001/early 2002 when “I’m Tryin'” was his current single. This song still got a little recurrent airplay for us in the next few years, but not quite as much as “Thinkin’ Thing” and “Every Light” did. This is also another song I remember hearing during the trip to Maine that my parents and I went on during August of 1997, and in the September of that year when I had just recently started 6th grade, I had this song going through my head one day at the lunch table. Of course, a little while later, I figured out that it was the woman asking him to come home who was “turned on,” but that innuendo still mostly went over my head, and I didn’t know exactly why it was such an emergency for her to see him right away, lol. I never did finish the tape after that, though, and I wouldn’t record again until the Fall of 1998. Despite that, I still liked the song enough to keep it on the tape, and I also recorded “Is That A Tear” by Tracy Lawrence next. Like Jon above, the meaning of the lyrics also flew over my head at that moment, and I kept wondering, “Okay, just what is it that he left on in the house?” lol.

TRACE ADKINS I LEFT SOMETHING TURNED ON AT HOME MOVIE

The line in the second verse “Hey waitress, could you cancel that order?” also made me think of Charlize Theron’s waitress character in the movie Trial and Error (starring Jeff Daniels), since my mom and I had just seen that movie recently. The first time I heard “I Left Something Turned On At Home,” it was while I was recording it on to the flip side of the tape I mentioned in Lonestar’s “Come Cryin’ To Me.” I actually didn’t even recognize it was Trace, at first, and thought it was Wade Hayes since he also has a deep voice and the song was sonically similar to some of Hayes’ upbeat songs. Regardless, it’s quite impressive how red hot he was during his debut album era. With Trace, it seems like “No Thinkin’ Thing” was covered here just yesterday. That might also explain why we’re now starting to see fewer songs in between certain artists’ number ones hits. It’s pretty neat how long many of these Spring/Summer songs stuck around for several months, but that also may be an early sign of radio playlists beginning to shrink back then. This is yet another song I first heard in the Spring of ’97 when I was still in fifth grade and still heard regularly on the radio in September during the beginning of my middle school years in the 6th grade. I always thought it was kind of funny that Trace had two singles from his debut album that talked about leaving things on in his house, lol. Previous: George Strait, “Carrying Your Love With Me” | “I Left Something Turned On at Home” gets a B. When we cover the 2000s, we will see a lot more of Trace Adkins, as he reaches his commercial peak during that decade. It’s a novelty record that Adkins isn’t quite seasoned enough as a studio singer to make novel, but given how leering he would’ve made this later in his career (see: “Swing,” “Hot Mama”), the straightforward delivery is a bit of a relief.Īdkins closed out the decade with the top five “The Rest of Mine” and the top fifteen “Lonely Won’t Leave Me Alone” from his second album, Big Time. Adkins doesn’t have the same ability to lean into a song’s humor with his vocal delivery – he’d have just sang “Swingin” instead of “Swangin’.” Still, the playfulness is there on the backing track, and Adkins’ baritone would itself be influential on 21st century stars like Josh Turner and Kane Brown. That Anderson influence is all over “I Left Something Turned On at Home,” which the eighties and nineties legend would’ve made a classic with his warbling delivery. Terri Clark clearly cut her teeth on Reba McEntire and the Judds, and her contemporary Trace Adkins was heavily influenced by John Conlee and John Anderson. Trace Adkins gets his John Anderson groove on.Īfter topping the charts for the first time with “(This Ain’t) No Thinkin’ Thing,” Adkins repeated the feat with the fourth and final single from Dreamin’ Out Loud.īy the late nineties, new artists were surfacing that were clearly influenced by the eighties new traditionalists. Written by Billy Lawson and John Schweers

Trace adkins i left something turned on at home