Country singer Tracy Lawrence reflects on lasting impact of 1991 shooting

Nation star Tracy Lawrence mirrored on the life-changing trauma he endured greater than three a long time in the past.

Whereas recording his debut album “Sticks and Stones” in Could 1991, Lawrence was strolling with a buddy again to her Nashville lodge once they had been ambushed by a number of gun-wielding assailants. The “Stars Over Texas” singer was shot 4 instances in the course of the theft and needed to bear main surgical procedure to take away the bullets.

He did not comprehend it on the time, however Lawrence – who kicks off his 2026 No Alibis Tour this 12 months – admitted he now is aware of he ought to have sought skilled assist after surviving the capturing.

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Singer Tracy Lawrence performs on the Palomino stage in the course of the Stagecoach Music Pageant on April 27, 2025 in Indio, California. (Scott Dudelson)

“I used to be indignant on the time,” Lawrence informed Fox Information Digital completely. “I felt like they had been attempting to take my alternative away, however I wasn’t getting the psychological assist I wanted. I am much more conscious of the implications, whether or not it is once you undergo a bodily altercation or household trauma or no matter these issues are.”

“I am a giant believer in caring for your psychological well being nowadays, and I did not try this on the time. That was a really traumatic expertise for me.”

He added: “I simply suppressed it and pushed it away, and it brought on quite a lot of issues in my private relationships, issues in my profession.”

The musician from ‘Cannot Break It to My Coronary heart’ developed a ‘little bit of a God advanced’ after the incident, one thing that additionally brought on ache in his life.

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“I am a giant believer in caring for your psychological well being nowadays, and I did not try this on the time. That was a really traumatic expertise for me.”

–Tracy Lawrence

“If you’re overcoming a life-changing expertise like that, I believe there’s a little bit little bit of a God advanced that comes with surviving one thing that you simply in all probability should not have,” Lawrence stated. “It made me push issues to the restrict much more than I’d have if that hadn’t occurred to me.

Tracy Lawrence was a rising star in Nashville’s nation music scene when he was shot throughout a theft. (Beth Gwinn)

“I attempt to make it a degree when folks convey that up, and I discuss it now to make folks conscious that one of the vital essential issues you are able to do once you’re going by one thing like that’s to speak to somebody about it. Do not suppress it. Clear that factor up and get it out, cope with it and confront it, as a result of if you happen to do not, finally it’ll come out in a manner that you would be able to’t management.”

Lawrence spent days within the hospital at Vanderbilt Medical Heart, the place he underwent a number of surgical procedures to take away a bullet from his knee. Medical doctors determined to not take away the bullet lodged in his hip.

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“As soon as I bought previous the conclusion that I wasn’t going to die, the subsequent factor I used to be nervous about was if I used to be going to lose my leg…I did not understand how critical the bullet influence to my leg was as a result of I used to be shot proper by the joint in my left knee,” Lawrence stated. “I actually thought for some time there that they must amputate my leg and that in itself was fairly traumatic and I nonetheless undergo from that damage.”

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He added: “I had a complete knee substitute and as soon as I bought over that I began having ankle issues. I am in all probability going to have ankle surgical procedure on the finish of this 12 months which I have been laying aside for some time in order that has brought on residual issues through the years that simply needed to linger that I’ve by no means actually absolutely gotten over.”

“I actually thought for some time there that they must amputate my leg and that in itself was fairly traumatic and I nonetheless undergo from that damage.”

–Tracy Lawrence

Tracy Lawrence was shot 4 instances in 1991 and needed to bear a number of surgical procedures to take away the bullets from his physique. (Will and Deni McIntyre)

Lawrence was a rising star within the business on the time of the near-death expertise and will have let the incident change his trajectory, however his love of music and religion in God stored him going.

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“I’m blessed to have discovered one thing that I’m so enthusiastic about in life and have been capable of get pleasure from for many of my life,” Lawrence stated. “I believe I began this dream after I was about 12 years previous. And I simply turned 58 and I nonetheless like it and am as enthusiastic about it now as I used to be after I was a child. I believe that is fairly uncommon.”

He added, “I’ve had a rollercoaster relationship with my Creator greater than as soon as.

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“I nonetheless have the highs and lows of it. I am nonetheless a struggling Christian, and it is one thing I speak to my pastor about repeatedly. However I do know God is all the time there. He is had his hand on me since I used to be a little bit child and I have been blessed with quite a lot of prayer warriors. My mother and women from the church I grew up in, and even folks in my life right this moment who’re continually praying for me. I really feel very blessed to have them in my life. It is positively had an influence on my relationship with God.”

Tracy Lawrence is hitting the highway this 12 months for the “No Alibis Tour”. (Scott Dudelson/Getty Photographs)

With greater than a dozen albums to his identify and dozens of hit songs, Lawrence is bringing all of his greatest lyrics to the highway this 12 months on his headlining No Alibis Tour in 2026.

“I believe it is a good time to return there,” he stated. “You recognize, I by no means actually stopped touring, however you realize, to reconnect with a few of these followers that I have never seen in 25 years, and individuals who adopted me within the early ’90s, and simply to reconnect with that viewers on the market.”

Lawrence’s No Alibis Tour 2026 kicks off in March and runs by August, with Lawrence stopping in his hometown of Nashville on the Ryman Auditorium.