Did you know that on this day in Country Music History in 2013 Trace Adkins raised more than $670,000 for the American Red Cross?

It's true! He was the winning project manager during the season's first episode of Donald Trump's NBC competition, "The Celebrity Apprentice".

Trace Adkins Christmas
Rick Diamond, Getty Images
loading...

Check out this Trace Adkins video!

Here are 5 interesting facts about Trace Adkins.

  • He stands 6'6" tall.
  • He played college football and studied petroleum technology at Louisiana Tech University.
  • He accidentally cut off a finger while working on an oil rig after college; it was later reattached.
  • He was shot by his then-wife Julie Curtis in 1994; he did not press charges.
  • He wrote the autobiography A Personal Stand: Observations and Opinions from a Freethinking Roughneck (2007).

More From