Multi-platinum country music icon and ACM Award winner Rodney Atkins has always known who he is and where his roots are. His first new studio project in seven years since 2019’s Caught Up In The Country, Atkins invites listeners to pull up a chair and stay a while with his brilliant 12-song collection, “True South.” Born in the red clay and rolling hills of East Tennessee, the album is the ultimate Southern soundtrack and an intense document of a life fully lived.
Seven years is a long time. Long enough to watch your kids grow up too fast, to fall more deeply in love, to wonder how the years flew by in the blink of an eye. Atkins isn’t one to chase fads; instead, he tips a long neck to love, family, and memory. The multigenerational hitmaker cements his status as country music’s ultimate family man with relatable odes to marriage and parenting alongside his wife Rose Falcon and his three sons.
With over 19 million RIAA-certified units sold, more than 5 billion career streams and six No. 1 radio singles in his legendary catalog, Rodney Atkins has nothing left to prove to the industry. Still, with True South, he’s made the kind of record that does it anyway—quietly, honestly, and with absolutely no apologies. The production is lush, the storytelling razor-sharp and his signature baritone voice remains one of the most comforting and enduring forces on Country radio. More than an album, True South is a timeless ode to those everyday moments that make a life.
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