![]() ![]() ![]() The singer-songwriter says the collaborative effort came about as a result of a performance at the “Mother Church of Country Music.” Giving his new single a little different sound is the soulful sounds of the Fisk Jubilee Singers – one of Nashville’s most historic vocal groups, from Music City’s Fisk University. It blows me away that people still want to come up and talk about that one. That’s very important for your career, so when you’re going out on the road, people are still singing along with the lyrics of a song like ‘Watching You.’ It’s such a simple song. I think that the songs that we’ve put out are believable and also are just as relevant when they were originally released. “I try to be conscious of that - I don’t feel like I can just put anything out there and it will get played,” he says. I spent hours just playing with sounds and trying to create a nod to the past, as well as push the envelope.”Īt the same time, Atkins also wants to give audiences a message they can relate to. He created some different atmospheres on the record. We brought in a young guy named Blake Bolinger on this record, who is a sounds guy. While remaining true to his country roots, Atkins says he didn’t play it safe on his new music. “I challenged myself sonically on a lot of sounds,” he explains. “I’ve produced all my records with Ted Hewitt. I consider it an honor to sing about country music.” I’m Country. I don’t want to put out music that people will say ‘’Now, what kind of music is that? Am I on a Pop station here?’ I appreciate other kinds of music, but I know what I do and where I stand, and what I want to sing about. He says he wanted to maintain that creative spirit: “I just wanted to raise the bar sonically and do something that challenges everything else that is out there – and me in the meantime. “ Take A Back Road was another record that people said the same thing about from a sonic standpoint.” Now, the singer hopes to reclaim his position on the airwaves of Country Radio with his new single “Caught Up in the Country.” He says he hopes that listeners will realize that he is trying to remain true to the country format - after all, that’s always been his mission. “If you go back to If You’re Going Through Hell, the response that we got at the time was that it didn’t sound like anything else out there,” he recalls. I’ve just been living life, and have just embraced the adventure of laughing and having more fun than I’ve ever had in my life.” We’ve got a ten-week-old little boy named Ryder, and a sixteen-year-old son named Eli. “She’s everything to me, and my inspiration. “The moment that I met Rose, I knew there was going to be a grand adventure to follow,” he tells Billboard. ![]()
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