In this video clip from CMT, country music star Trace Adkins talks about teaming up with actor Stephen Baldwin for the video to Adkins’ song, “Muddy Water.”In an interview with CMT, Adkins says the first time he heard the song:

I related to it. That’s the way my life is. To me, it just kind of said, “This is how I was raised.” The first kind of music that I sang was gospel music. I sang bass in a gospel quartet before I began singing in honky-tonks because that was the first door that opened for me, and this was my way of saying I haven’t forgotten that. I know where I come from, and it’s still very important to me. I don’t want that to be lost — and also to say to my mother that the way I turned out’s not her fault.We’ve all at one time — or a lot of us anyway — have been that prodigal that strayed and went down a different road that led us to a bad place, but that’s what this song says. There’s a place for us to go back to. It’s still there.

Adkins asked Baldwin, with whom he appeared with on “The Celebrity Apprentice” (Adkins came in second to British entertainment critic Piers Morgan) to play the lead in the video, and insisted with producers on a literal interpretation of the song’s lyrics:Eighteen wheeler dropped me off at that city limits signSunday morning sunlight hurt my eyesIt’s a long way from where I been back to my home townBut there’s a man in me I need to drownCHORUS:Baptize me in that muddy waterWash me clean in amazing graceI ain’t been living like I aughtaBaptize me in that muddy waterMade my way to the church at the end of the dirt roadDragging what was left of my soulI could see the saints out back on the river bankAnd I could hear forgiveness calling out my nameFor more about Trace Adkins, visit his website.Visit Beliefnet’s Christian music blog, Gospel Soundcheck, daily for the latest news on your favorite Christian music artists as well as mainstream artists with ties to Christian music.