If You're Going Through Hell

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If You're Going Through Hell
Studio album by Rodney Atkins
Released	July 18, 2006 (2006-07-18)
Recorded	Curb Studio (Nashville) Cartee Day Studio (Nashville) Country Q (Nashville) The Bonus Room (Old Hickory) Ridgetop Studio (Baxter)
Genre	Country
Length	36:11
Label	Curb
Producer	Ted Hewitt Rodney Atkins
Rodney Atkins chronology
Honesty (2003) If You're Going Through Hell (2006) TBD

If You're Going Through Hell is the second studio album released by country singer Rodney Atkins. As of October 5, 2007, the album has sold 1,465,348 copies in the US^[1] and has received RIAA platinum certification.

The album's first four singles — "If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)", "Watching You", "These Are My People" and "Cleaning This Gun (Come on in Boy)" — were all Number One hits on the Billboard Hot Country Songs between 2006 and 2008. In addition, "If You're Going Through Hell" and "Watching You" were declared by Billboard as the Number One country songs of 2006 and 2007, respectively. "Invisibly Shaken", originally recorded by Lee Greenwood on his 2003 album Stronger Than Time, was released in early 2008 as the album's fifth single.

[edit] Track listing

1. "These Are My People" (Rivers Rutherford, Dave Berg) – 3:33
2. "About the South" (Rodney Atkins, Tom Hambridge, Shane Minor) – 2:58
3. "Watching You" (Atkins, Steve Dean, Brian Gene White) – 3:55
4. "Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)" (Casey Beathard, Marla Cannon-Goodman) – 3:46
5. "In the Middle" (Atkins, Berg, Sam Tate, Annie Tate) – 3:11
6. "A Man on a Tractor" (Kent Agee, Michael Lunn) – 4:08
7. "Wasted Whiskey" (Atkins, Ted Hewitt, Danny Simpson) – 3:42
8. "Invisibly Shaken" (Atkins, Billy Kirsch) – 3:46
9. "Angel's Hands" (Atkins, Nicole Witt, Bobby Tomberlin) – 3:29
10. "If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows)" (A. Tate, S. Tate, Berg) – 3:37

An acoustic version of Atkins's 2003 single "Honesty (Write Me a List)" is available as a bonus track on versions of the album purchased at Target stores in the United States.

[edit] Personnel

• Mike Brignardello - bass guitar
• "Moose" Brown - piano
• Skip Cleavinger - Uilleann pipes
• Larry Franklin - fiddle, mandolin
• Rob Hajacos - fiddle
• Angela Hurt - background vocals
• Ted Hewitt - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, background vocals
• Mike Johnson - pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar
• Julian King - percussion
• Troy Lancaster - electric guitar
• B. James Lowry - acoustic guitar
• Brent Mason - electric guitar
• Gordon Mote - piano, Hammond organ
• Larry Paxton - bass guitar
• Gary Prim - piano, Hammond organ
• Scotty Sanders - pedal steel guitar
• Steve Sheehan - acoustic guitar
• Wanda Vick - banjo
• John Willis - acoustic guitar, banjo
• Lonnie Wilson - drums

[edit] References

v • d • e Rodney Atkins Albums Rodney Atkins · Honesty · If You're Going Through Hell Singles "In a Heartbeat" · "Sing Along" · "My Old Man" · "Honesty (Write Me a List)" · "Someone to Share It With" · "Monkey in the Middle" · "If You're Going Through Hell (Before The Devil Even Knows)" · "Watching You" · "These Are My People" · "Cleaning This Gun (Come On in Boy)" · "Invisibly Shaken"