Rodney Atkins photo courtesy of Curb Records
January 7, 2008 — Rodney Atkins' "Cleaning This Gun," which he describes as a cross between Hank Jr.'s "Country Boy Can Survive" and Bob Carlisle's "Butterfly Kisses," taps into the relationship between a father, his little girl and her potential boyfriend. That's not much of a stretch for Rodney, who's busy protecting his two teenage daughters from interested boys.
"In the video for 'Watching You,' people know that that's my little boy, Elijah," Rodney tells Dial-Global. "What they don't know is when I married my wife I inherited two pretty little stepdaughters, Lindsey and Morgan. Lindsey and Morgan are now teenagers and so I'm dealing with teenage boys coming around the house now."
He's tried a number of things to keep the boys at bay. "I've done crazy stuff, you know, from cleaning a gun to standing behind the door and firing up a chainsaw, you know, just to be funny," says Rodney. "And I get to know the boys and we have fun. The song was just perfect for my kind of twisted sense of humor."
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