“Every Light in the House” Illuminates Trace Adkins’ Soaring Career
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- Arden is a Senior Country Music Journalist for Country Thang Daily, specializing in classic hits and contemporary chart-toppers.
- Prior to joining Country Thang Daily, Arden wrote for Billboard and People magazine, covering country music legends and emerging artists.
- Arden holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Tennessee, with a minor in Music Studies.
If you have been a fan of Trace Adkins since the beginning, there’s probably one song that instantly comes to mind, and that’s his hit single, “Every Light in the House.”
The song was released in 1996 off Adkins’ debut album, Dreamin’ Out Loud, and later peaked at No. 3 on the chart of Hot Country Singles & Tracks, giving Adkins the first Top 5 single of his career.
Billboard magazine’s Deborah Evans Price said that “Adkins’ deep, powerful voice does justice to the yearning in this lyric about a man who has left the lights on waiting for his lover to return.” Music critic Rick Cohoon of Allmusic also gave the song a favorable review. He called the song a “creative approach to the age-old ‘goodbye, I miss you’ song.”
Cohoon also commended Adkins’ voice for “communicating pain so well” despite the singer’s stature.
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