Trace Adkins Fears Budget Crisis Will Steal His Spotlight

Trace Adkins is as concerned as the rest of us about the looming debt crisis the nation is currently facing, but he's a little ticked off about the timing of the lawmakers in holding out on their decisions and debating until right down to the wire. August 2 is a big day for Trace, since his latest album, 'Proud to Be Here,' drops that day, but he's a tad irked that there's a chance he'll lose his scheduled TV slots to plug the CD, since that also happens to be the debt crisis deadline as well!

"My album comes out August 2nd," Trace tells Countryforever.com. "And when is the deadline on the debt crisis? August 2nd! So, what do you think is going to dominate the press that day? I'm out there trying to sell my album and it's never mind that, we're going down the toilet!," Trace laments. "And we're supposed to be on the 'Late Show with David Letterman' and 'FOX and Friends' and I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't want to talk to me, I understand. That's just my luck ... And the politicians, they're not going to settle it before then, they're going to take it right to the wire! I mean the theater is just irresistible to them, they just can't resist in making it a soap opera and taking it to the wire."

Trace is also slated to appear on the 'Today Show' that morning, and will also make stops at 'Piers Morgan Tonight' and 'Chelsea Lately' the following week during the media blitz for his CD release. His new album includes his current single, the sweet 'Just Fishin,' a song about a father reminiscing on how fast time the time passes that he spends with his baby girl and how precious it is to him. Trace's youngest daughter Trinity appears in the video for the song with him, and the clip was filmed at the farm he owns outside of Nashville that recently provided refuge for the family after the devastating fire last month that took their Nashville home.

Though the family got out of the burning home with their lives, they definitely lost plenty of irreplaceable things, and Trace says it's just now starting to hit him how much they really lost in the horrible blaze. "Just over the last week it's falling in on me like a delayed reaction," Trace tells CMT.com. "Every day, you think of something else you lost, and those things just keep popping up, like someone smacking you again. Pictures of me with my heroes. Portraits of my kids. That's the stuff you miss the most. There's that saying about how you stand outside what used to be your home after something like this, and you say, 'The family's OK, and that's all that matters.' But until it's actually happened to you, that's when the weight of those words takes on a significance you never even imagined. Everything pales after that."