TRACE ADKINS - ADKINS RULES OUT WEDDING RECEPTIONS AFTER DEATH

Country singer TRACE ADKINS will never perform at another wedding reception - because one old-timer died at the last one he played. The HONKYTONK BADONKADONK singer and his band performed at a wedding when they were starting out and Adkins has never felt so uncomfortable onstage - after he was told to stop singing because grandma was dead. Cringing at the memory, Adkins says, "We played the song for the bride and groom to dance to, and the next song was going to be grandparents and the parents and all that. "So, we started the second song and about half way through, grandma fell dead on the floor and we were still playing, and finally, the father turned around and yelled, 'Stop! For God's sake, stop playing. My mother's dead.' "I looked at the guys and was like, 'What do we do now?' They tried to revive her, bless her heart, and she's dead. And after they hauled her away, we were all still standing there. "We asked somebody, very politely, 'Do you want us to continue to play?' And they're like, 'No, you're done.'" But worse still, Adkins had to ask the dead woman's grieving son for the group's fee: "He was fairly surly when he was giving us the money. That was the last reception we did."