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Full Name:	Rodney Atkins
Birth Name:	Rodney Atkins
Famous As:	Country music singer
Date of Birth:	March 28, 1969
Place of Birth:	Knoxville, Tennessee
Nationality:	American
Claim to Fame:	Album If You're Going Through Hell (2006)

• Tim McGraw and Friends Work the Red Carpet for His New Movie

  About Country Music - Found Nov. 17, 2009 ... he does a great job." Other celebs on the red carpet included Randy Travis , Barbara Mandrell , Kix Brooks , Rodney Atkins and Wynonna .

• Opry, MySpace to live stream performances

  Hollywood Reporter - Found Nov. 13, 2009 ... between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. EST will be shown, including appearances by Carrie Underwood, Martina McBride, Rodney Atkins, Jake Owen and others. Opry, MySpace Team up for Underwood Performance - NewsMax.com Opry, MySpace team up for Underwood performance - San Jose Mercury News Opry, MySpace team up for Underwood performance - Boston Globe Opry, MySpace team up for Underwood performance - Minneapolis Star Tribune Explore All

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• Carrie's Dot Com Concert

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• Idol Headlines for 11/13/09

  American Idol - Found Nov. 13, 2009 ... between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. EST will be shown, including appearances by Carrie Underwood, Martina McBride, Rodney Atkins, Jake Owen and others.

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  ABC News - Found Nov. 10, 2009 Country star Rodney Atkins presents Master Sgt. Bubba Beason with a new car.

• Catching Up With Rodney Atkins

  The 9513 - Found Nov. 10, 2009 RODNEY ATKINS : That was amazing. I didn?t know my name was going to be on the building.

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  The 9513 - Found Oct. 15, 2009 Songwriters : Rodney Atkins, Steven Dean and Owen Hewitt.

• Rodney Atkins to play at his third Maddie fund-raiser

  The Detroit Free Press - Found Oct. 1, 2009 FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER Country singer Rodney Atkins plans a benefit concert on Sunday in honor of Maddie Trudel, who was 7 when she died in 2006

• Rodney Atkins comes full circle in music and life

  The Daily Times - Found Oct. 18, 2009 His name was on the sign out front, and for Rodney Atkins, such an accolade meant more than all of the No. 1 hits he's ever had. For Atkins, who ...

• Rodney Atkins performs in benefit concert

  Cookeville Herald-Citizen - Found Oct. 9, 2009 Rodney Atkins, left, jams with a band member during a benefit concert in Tennessee Techâ??s Hooper-Eblen Center last night. Atkins headlined ...

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Rodney Atkins
Rodney Atkins performing on December 1, 2007 at the Schottenstein Center in Columbus, Ohio.
Background information
Birth name	Rodney Austin Atkins
Born	March 28, 1969 (1969-03-28) (age 40)1
Origin	Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, United States
Genres	Country
Occupations	Singer-songwriter
Instruments	Vocals, acoustic guitar
Years active	1997-present
Labels	Curb
Associated acts	Ted Hewitt
Website	http://www.rodneyatkins.com/

Rodney Austin Atkins (born March 28, 1969, in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American country music artist. Signed to Curb Records since 1997, Atkins charted his first single on the Billboard country charts that year. However, he did not enter the charts again until late 2002, with the Top 40 single "Sing Along". Atkins eventually landed his first Top Five hit on the country music charts in 2003, with the single "Honesty (Write Me a List)" from his 2003 album Honesty.

If You're Going Through Hell, his second album, was released in 2006. Its first two singles, "If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)" and "Watching You", each spent four weeks at the top of the country music charts. Both songs were also named as the Number One country song of the year by Billboard magazine ("If You're Going Through Hell" in 2006, and "Watching You" in 2007). The album, which has since been certified platinum in the United States, has since produced two more Number One singles in "These Are My People" and "Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)", as well as "Invisibly Shaken" which peaked at #41. A twelfth single, "It's America", was released in late 2008 as the first release from his third album It's America and the song became his fifth Number One on the chart dated May 2, 2009.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Musical career 2.1 Rodney Atkins 2.2 Honesty 2.3 If You're Going Through Hell 2.4 It's America 3 Charitable efforts 4 Family and personal life 5 Awards 6 Discography 6.1 Studio albums 6.2 Singles 6.3 Music videos 7 References 8 External links

Biography

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Rodney Atkins was born in Tennessee, and put up for adoption not long after his birth. As an infant at the Holston Methodist Home for Children in Greeneville, Tennessee, he was so sick that two couples who had taken him home returned him a few days later. A third couple from Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, adopted him as well and, even though his ailments worsened, refused to give him up. His adoptive mother had been raised in a coal mining family near a tannery camp, and his dad survived an upbringing marked by poverty and episodes of abuse.

During high school, Atkins played guitar in his spare time at events and festivals. He went to college at Tennessee Tech in Cookeville, Tennessee, where he worked various jobs in order to pay for his education. He also went into Nashville to play gigs and write songs.

Musical career

Rodney Atkins

Atkins was signed to Curb Records in 1997. That year, he charted for the first time with the single "In a Heartbeat", which peaked at #74 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. He had also planned to release a self-titled debut album that year on September 17²; however, after deciding that he was not satisfied with the album's contents at that point, he asked Mike Curb (the label's president) to allow him more time to work on the album. For two more years, Atkins continued to work on his debut album, although it was never released.¹

Honesty

In 2002, Atkins released his second single, entitled "Sing Along". Both it and its followup, "My Old Man", peaked in the lower regions of the Top 40 on the country charts. He entered the Top 10 for the first time in late 2003-early 2004 with "Honesty (Write Me a List)", which went on to peak at #4. The song was the title track to his album Honesty, which was released by the end of 2003.¹ "Someone to Share It With" and "Monkey in the Middle" were also issued as singles from this album, although the former peaked at #41, and the latter failed to chart.

If You're Going Through Hell

Having been absent from the country music charts for most of 2004 and 2005, Atkins returned in 2006 with a single entitled "If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)", which served as the lead-off to his second released album, If You're Going Through Hell. The song went on to become not only his first Number One hit on the country charts, but also the Number One country song of the year 2006 according to Billboard. This single's followup, "Watching You", earned him a second consecutive Number One, and in 2007, it was also declared by Billboard as Number One country song of the year.

The album went on to achieve RIAA platinum certification in the United States, in addition to producing two more Number One hits, for a total of four consecutive Number Ones: "These Are My People" and "Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)". "Invisibly Shaken", previously recorded by Lee Greenwood, was the fifth and final single from If You're Going Through Hell. The single peaked at #41 on the Country Singles Chart.

It's America

Atkins' twelfth single, "It's America", was released in November 2008. This is the first single from his third album, It's America, released on March 31, 2009. The song became his fifth Number One song on the chart dated May 2, 2009. The second single, "15 Minutes", was released to radio on May 26, 2009, where it debuted at #57 on the country charts and peaked at #20 in September 2009.

Charitable efforts

Madeleine Rose Trudel (1999-2006), a young girl from St. Clair, Michigan, was dying of cancer when on October 25, Atkins gave Maddie a private concert in her hospital room. Atkins learned about Maddie when somebody sent him a link to the Free Press series about Maddie and her illness. He sang "If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)", his signature song as well as Maddie's favorite song. ³

Family and personal life

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Atkins is married to Tammy Jo and has a son named Elijah, who appears in the video for "Watching You". Atkins also has two stepdaughters, Lindsey and Morgan, from Tammy's previous relationship.

Awards

Year	Association	Honor
2006	Academy of Country Music	Top New Male Vocalist

Discography

Studio albums

Year	Album details	Peak chart positions					Certifications (sales threshold)
		US Country	US	US Heat	CAN Country	CAN
2003	Honesty Release date: October 14, 2003 Label: Curb Records Formats: CD, cassette	50	—	47	—	—
2006	If You're Going Through Hell Release date: July 18, 2006 Label: Curb Records Formats: CD, digital download	1	3	—	1	—	US certification: Platinum4
2009	It's America Release date: March 31, 2009 Label: Curb Records Formats: CD, digital download	3	15	—	8	84
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions5					RIAA6	Album
		US Country	US	US Pop	CAN Country	CAN
1997	"In a Heartbeat"	74	—	—	—	—	—	Rodney Atkins (unreleased)
	"God Only Knows"	—	—	—	—	—	—
2002	"Sing Along"	37	—	—	*	—	—	Honesty
	"My Old Man"	36	—	—	*	—	—
2003	"Honesty (Write Me a List)"	4	57	—	*	—	—
2004	"Someone to Share It With"	41	—	—	*	—	—
	"Monkey in the Middle"	—	—	—	—	—	—
2006	"If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)"	1	33	57	1	—	Gold	If You're Going Through Hell
	"Watching You"	1	36	57	3	—	Gold
2007	"These Are My People"	1	42	96	11	—	—
	"Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)"	1	40	83	5	84	—
2008	"Invisibly Shaken"	41	—	—	—	—	—
	"It's America"	1	44	—	—	—	—	It's America
2009	"15 Minutes"	20	115	—	38	—	—
	"Chasin' Girls"A	48
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or not certified * denotes unknown peak positions

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Music videos

Year	Video	Director
1997	"In a Heartbeat"
2003	"Honesty (Write Me a List)"
2006	"If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)"	Eric Welch
	"Watching You"
2007	"These Are My People"
2008	"Invisibly Shaken"
2009	"It's America"

References

External links

• Official Website
• Rodney Atkins at MySpace

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