Maintenance Man

Album: not released on an album (2015)
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Songfacts®:

  • Not to be confused with Toby Keith's "High Maintenance Woman," this lascivious scorcher is one of the more blues-inflected songs in Adkins canon. It finds him telling a girl that he can satisfy her every need in the bedroom.

    On his 2015 Live Country! DVD, Adkins explained: "I was talking to a guy, and he said, 'I bet that girl is high maintenance.' I said, 'I don't have a problem with that - I'm your maintenance man, baby. I'll take care of you.'"
  • Adkins says this is one of the "nastiest" songs he's ever written. "It's a little embarrassing to sing in front of your mama," he adds.

Comments: 1

  • Lori Easler from Palmdale, CaMaintenance Man is a hot song and should be released as a single for radio airplay. I want to see this song on an album. The double album due for release August 2021 does not appear to include this song. Trace, you have to put it on an album and release it as a single!
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