Rodney Atkins photo courtesy of Curb Records
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 previously had chart-toppers with "If You're Going Through Hell" and "Watching You," inspired by his 5-year-old son Elijah. He takes over the top from Kenny Chesney's "Never Wanted Nothing More," which had been first for four straight weeks.
"The best songs are the ones that you see yourself inside of even if you didn't write it," Rodney says of the song written by Dave Berg and Rivers Rutherford. "I swear to ya'll, I grew up down by the railroad tracks shooting BBs at everything. It was us boys at the Shawanee railroad tracks and then going to Barnard's or Buford's. School was exactly what this song says. I still like a good game of church league softball. Brother Ralph Berry, the man who baptized me, was the most tenacious softball player ever! He was in his sixties back then."
Rodney joins the Bonfires and Amplifiers tour opening for Brad Paisley after wrapping up his summer on the road with Martina McBride.
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