Track Listing

1. These Are My People - Rodney Atkins, Rutherford, Rivers
2. About the South
3. Watching You
4. Cleaning This Gun (Come on in Boy) - Rodney Atkins, Beathard, Casey
5. In the Middle
6. A Man on a Tractor - Rodney Atkins, Agee, Kent
7. Wasted Whiskey
8. Invisibly Shaken
9. Angel's Hands
10. If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows) - Rodney Atkins, Tate, Sam

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1590 in Music
• Released on: 2006-07-18
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
East Tennessee singer-songwriter Rodney Atkins scored a chart-topper with the title track of this second release, reframing the Irish drinking toast ("May you be in heaven five minutes before the devil knows you're dead") in a modern context and tying it all up in a Celtic/banjo wrapping fit for Keith Urban. It's a solid effort, and performed with unusual aplomb for a newcomer. But as the rest of the album shows, Atkins seems torn between being a thoughtful, poetic craftsman ("Angel's Hands," "Invisibly Shaken," "A Man on a Tractor") and a hero for redneck simpletons. On the opening "These Are My People," he works the family-values-and-small-town stereotypes to death, continuing with "About the South," a Charlie-Daniels-as-God number on which he's backed by an irritating group of chorines that sound suspiciously like the Hee Haw Hunnies. Which path will Atkins ultimately choose, NPR or Wal-Mart? His second single, "Watching You"--a doing-everything-like-Daddy paean--probably tells the tale. --Alanna Nash

Customer Reviews

Very enjoyable
This album is very enjoyable. I bought it because I find the song "If you're going through hell" to be very inspirational. I am going through "hell" right now and I listen to that song often to motivate me to be a survivor.

Rodney Atkins
I purchased his "If your going thru Hell" cd, and love it... Has a ton of his hits on it, and the upbeat music, gets your going....

GREAT CD. LOVE ALL THE SONGS!
I feel so fortunate to have found this CD. I head one of the songs on the radio, "If You're Going Through Hell", and loved it immediately. I bought the CD and wasn't sorry. Every song is great. Rodney has a great voice and amazing songs that you won't be able to stop listening to.