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  • Ultimate Fan Photo Gallery: Rodney Atkins

    Help GAC Build the Ultimate Fan Photo Gallery for Rodney Atkins! Share your most prized photos of Rodney Atkins with country music fans around the world! Upload photos from concerts, events, autograph signings, fan club parties and more!

  • Rodney Atkins Biography

    Rodney Atkins is country - every essence of country. He comes from it, writes about it, and sings about it. He loves it. And he's proud of it. He believes in how its music affects people.

  • Rodney Atkins' Holiday Homecoming

    December 19, 2006 — Rodney Atkins went back to where it all started last week with "A Christmas With Rodney Atkins" concert benefiting Holston United Methodist Children's Home in Greenville, Tenn. Rodney was born in Knoxville and, at birth, placed with Holston Home, where he was given up for adoption three different times during his first year of life.

  • It's All in a Name to Rodney Atkins

    June 28, 2007 — The new issue of Guideposts magazine features a cover story by Rodney Atkins in which he reveals he was willing to do almost anything to make the big time, except change his name

  • Rodney Atkins Gets in the Pit with Michael Waltrip

    July 6, 2009 — Rodney Atkins is used to screaming fans, but he recently experienced the scream of engines when he spent the day with NASCAR driver Michael Waltrip for the GAC series, Drafting Partners.

  • Rodney Atkins Lifts Spirits of Boy Who Lost Father

    October 16, 2007 — With a heartfelt song, Rodney Atkins boosted the spirits of a young Winnipeg boy whose father was stabbed to death earlier this year.

  • Rodney Atkins Fits Into Only One Mold

    Find out why honesty has always been the best policy for Rodney Atkins.

  • Carrie Underwood, Rodney Atkins Lend A Hand

    Aug. 20, 2009 — Country artists generally get high marks for their efforts in reaching out to the community. Carrie Underwood, Rodney Atkins and Tim McGraw are the latest examples of the genre’s stars doing some sort of good work by linking with charities or simply making public appearances. Carrie, Rodney and songwriter Craig Wiseman — author of Kenny Chesney’s "Summertime" — are all contributing in their own ways to non-profit agencies that support people or animals in need.

  • Rodney Atkins Gets College Degree

    August 6, 2007 — Fourteen years after leaving Tennessee Tech, Rodney Atkins was awarded his college degree without even opening a textbook.

  • Rodney Atkins Named Adoption Spokesperson

    September 27, 2007 — The National Council for Adoption (NCFA), a leading adoption advocacy organization, has named Rodney Atkins its Celebrity Spokesperson of the Year.

  • Rodney Atkins' "Gun" Most-Played Of '08

    July 2, 2008 — The first half of 2008 is complete, and that period has been a winner for Rodney Atkins. According to Country Aircheck, his single "Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)" was the most-played song on country radio from January through June.

  • Rodney Atkins Writing for Next CD

    February 27, 2008 - Now that Brad Paisley's Bonfires & Amplifiers Tour is finished, opening-act Rodney Atkins has a major project on his horizon: He's working to write and collect material for his next album.

  • Rodney Atkins Joins Memorial Day Lineup

    May 22, 2008 — Rodney Atkins will spend part of this weekend in Washington, D.C., where he’ll join several other celebrities for PBS’ annual National Memorial Day Concert on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol.

  • Rodney Atkins Gets Extreme

    October 30, 2007 — Rodney Atkins recently taped an episode of ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in Manchester, N.H., where host Ty Pennington and crew helped a family whose home was demolished by a devastating flood.

  • Rodney Atkins Conquers "America"

    May 1, 2009 — Rodney Atkins hit No. 1 on the Billboard country singles list this week with "It’s America," the title track for his latest album, which could easily have been released without it if fate hadn’t intervened.

  • Kenny Chesney Dominates ACM Nominations

    March 4, 2008 — Nominations have been announced for the 43rd Annual Academy of Country Music Awards — and Kenny Chesney leads the pack with an impressive 11 nods. Kenny is up for Entertainer of the Year and Top Male Vocalist, and was also nominated as an artist and producer for Album of the Year for Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates, Single Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Video of the Year for "Don’t Blink." If Kenny wins Entertainer of the Year, it will be his fourth consecutive win.

  • Rodney Atkins Means It

    May 15, 2009 — Rodney Atkins’ current hit, "It’s America," puts a positive spin on life in the U.S. at a time when the economy is making it hard on people from coast to coast. On the surface, it would appear to be poor timing, but as it turns out, it represents Rodney’s attitude about the current downturn almost perfectly.

  • Rodney Atkins Realizes His Dream

    August 15, 2007 — Rodney Atkins remembers telling his parents as a kid that he wanted to be a singer someday, but he says he really never imagined his dream would become a reality.

  • Rodney Atkins' Son Steals Spotlight

    February 7, 2007 — Rodney Atkins continues to keep a stronghold on the top of the country singles charts with his huge hit "Watchin' You."

  • Rodney Atkins’ "Simple" Solution

    May 14, 2009 — Rodney Atkins’ current album is titled It’s America, but for months leading up to its release, he had a completely different name for it.

  • Rodney Atkins Notches Third Straight No. 1

    August 31, 2007 — Rodney Atkins scored his third consecutive No. 1 single this week as "These Are My People" took over the top of the Billboard chart.

  • Rodney Atkins: Big Results at Small Prices

    April 1, 2009 — With songs such as "Watching You" and "Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)," Rodney Atkins put the emphasis in his last album on home and family. So it’s only appropriate that when he came back to make his new CD, It’s America, he did what worked the last time around: He recorded the vocals at home.

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