{"id":1307208,"date":"2019-03-28T09:51:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T15:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1804472"},"modified":"2019-03-28T09:51:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T15:51:55","slug":"just-a-country-boy-eight-essential-rodney-atkins-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/just-a-country-boy-eight-essential-rodney-atkins-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a Country Boy: Eight Essential Rodney Atkins Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Edward Morris<\/a><\/span> 18m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

After a four-year hiatus from the charts, Rodney Atkins<\/a> has returned with his exuberant \u201cCaught Up in the Country.\u201d The Knoxville, Tenn. native, who turns 50 today (March 28), first charted in 1997 with \u201cIn a Heartbeat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back then, he wore cowboy hats in his music videos. He would not switch to the rolled bill baseball cap that has become his trademark until 2006, when he scored his first No. 1 single with \u201cIf You\u2019re Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows).\u201d<\/p>\n

That song would ignite a string of three more consecutive No. 1s \u2014 \u201cWatching You,\u201d \u201cThese Are My People\u201d and \u201cCleaning This Gun (Come on in Boy).\u201d In 2006, the Academy of Country Music saluted Atkins with its top new male vocalist trophy.<\/p>\n

Two more No. 1s awaited Atkins \u2014 \u201cIt\u2019s America\u201d (2008) and \u201cTake a Back Road\u201d in 2011. Family figures prominently in some of his music videos. In fact, his son Elijah was the focal point of \u201cWatching You.\u201d After the end of his first marriage, Atkins remarried in 2013 to singer-songwriter Rose Falcon.<\/p>\n

With \u201cCaught Up in the Country,\u201d which features the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Atkins once again reaches for the industry prominence he once enjoyed.<\/p>\n

Here are eight music videos that open doors to Atkins\u2019 evolution as an artist:<\/p>\n