Hillbilly Bone (feat. Trace Adkins) chords by Blake Shelton

"Hillbilly Bone" is a song written by Luke Laird and Craig Wiseman and recorded by American country music artist Blake Shelton for his extended play Hillbilly Bone. The song features guest vocals from Trace Adkins, and its chart run overlapped with his singles "All I Ask For Anymore" and "Ala-Freakin-Bama." Shelton said that he was listening to a demo disc in his car, and when he first heard the demo for "Hillbilly Bone," he did not think that it was suitable for him, so he skipped to the next song on the disc. Later on, when the disc restarted, Shelton said that the demo "hit [him] way better" the second time he heard it, and that he liked it more each subsequent time that he listened to it. Shelton also thought that it sounded "like something Trace Adkins would cut," and asked producer Scott Hendricks to bring Adkins in to sing it as a duet. "Hillbilly Bone" debuted at #51 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, while Adkins' own single "All I Ask For Anymore" was still charting. The song also debuted at #65 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for the chart week of January 9, 2010. It became Shelton's sixth #1 and Adkins' fourth #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart week of March 27, 2010. The song began a streak of 17 consecutive #1 hits for Shelton. This streak ended in 2016, when his single, "She's Got a Way with Words, peaked at #7 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart and #8 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. The song won the 2010 Academy of Country Music award for "Vocal Event of the Year," giving Shelton his first Academy of Country Music award. Adkins included the song on the deluxe edition of his album, Cowboy's Back in Town, which was released on August 17, 2010. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.