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Album Intro：
Blessed with an expressive, masculine baritone and a sensitive soul, Rodney Atkins makes an impressive debut with a collection of songs about family, friends, fortitude, and self-reliance. Atkins doesn't preach, but it's traditional values he celebrates, as on the stomping, fiddle-fired country rocker 'These Are My People': church league softball, working hard at a day job, and so on, 'giving this life everything we've got / and then some.' In the churning 'Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy),' he recalls how his girlfriend's dad laid down the law to him on a first date, reminding him 'he'll be up all night / cleaning this gun,' and reflects on the far-off moment when his own daughter finds 'that teenage boy just like me.' A lesson of a different sort is taught by his young 'un in 'Watching You,' a driving, acoustic-based story that starts when a young son cuts loose with a four-letter word, which sets off a series of insightful reflections on parental responsibility set to thundering drums, sizzling guitar, and soaring pedal steel. Persevering through hard times is the message illustrated in the hit title song, a tune cloaked in Celtic finery (via bagpipes) and traditional country strains that seems to sum up the appealing essence of this most promising young artist. Keep an eye on him. --David McGee
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