Track Listing

1. These Are My People
2. About the South
3. Watching You
4. Cleaning This Gun (Come on in Boy)
5. In the Middle
6. Man on a Tractor
7. Wasted Whiskey
8. Invisibly Shaken
9. Angel's Hands
10. If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4032 in Music
• Released on: 2006-07-18
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

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

Great CD for all us simple rednecks
very enjoyable CD, fun to listen to and has a few songs that are poignant. I purchesed the CD because I love 'Going Through Hell', though I would not rate that as its best song. My 9 year old cousin loves to listen to 'Watching You' every time he is in my car and will listen to it 5 or 6 times. I really enjoy the somber 'Angel's Hands'.

I was put off when reading the review from Amazon, by someone who probably enjoys anything but Country music, which would explain why he was described as 'poetic craftsman' and a 'hero for redneck simpletons'. I imagine if we enjoy simple songs that are not riddled acts of degradation to women or curse words, than we are not of the high class and only able to understand our small town values.

Purchase the CD, whether it be for yourself or a gift, it will be enjoyed, no matter how much of a backwoods, redneck, banjo picking, simpletion you may be. YEEHAW!!!!

Rodney Atkins New CD-Going thru Hell
This is his second cd and it is amazing...I loved the first song and then continued to love every song...his heart comes thru on the songs and his voice is just so soulful. He has a great cd with this new cd and it's sure to climb the charts....well worth owning...Love Watching You & Angels Hands &Cleaning this Gun....great songs

Pure Country...
Needless to say...but there have been a lot of mixed reviews for this album, Rodney's new CD. Most of them have noted the title track 'If You're Going Through Hell' as being a "good song" or a "hit. However, they failed to mention any of the rest. For example, the first two songs on this CD 'These Are My People' and 'About The South'...speak directly about country roots, smalltowns, good tunes and old ways...I absolutely loved them, to say the least. If you love country music for the lyrical anthem of the southern/country/redneck heritage, then you will like this album.