It's America

Rodney Atkins - It's America

It's America
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Artist: Rodney Atkins
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-03-31
Music Label: Curb Records

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Music Review: Atkins' Predictable "America"
Rating: 3 Stars

Prime Cuts: The River Just Knows, Chasin' Girls, Rockin' of the Cradle

With Tim McGraw preparing to leave Curb Records after one more studio album. And LeAnn Rimes' troubled matrimony making more headlines than her music, Atkins is the only lodestar left on one of country music's most formidable major label. Thus far, Lady Luck has been smiling fortuitously at this snug baseball cap wearing singer. With four conservative number one singles off his last CD, Curb seems to have all cylinders ready for another dynamic assault on the charts with this new disc. Sure enough, this album is choke full of radio friendly tunes; most of which come from the oligarchy of Nashville's scribes including Doug Johnson, Dave Berg, Rivers Rutherford, Brett James, Casey Beathard, Neal Coty among many others. However, with such a chart-focus selection of songs, the CD has a safe sonic couture that comes across sometimes as predictable. Lyrically, Atkins has gone for a sweeping scope of subjects easily embraced by radio including the obligatory patriotic ("It's America"), the typical nod of ascent to the blue-collared ("Tell a Country Boy" and "Friends with Tractors"), the rowdy party anthems ("Chasin' Girls" and "15 Minutes") and the fashionable inspirational homilies ("Rockin' of the Cradle," "The River Just Knows," and "It's My Time").

Most conspicuous about this CD is the martial energy Atkins invests into each song. "Chasin' Girls," despite its frivolous lyrics, is saved by Atkins' passionate delivery with the right blend of tasty hot guitar licks and irresistible hooks. Atkins channels some light hearted Brad Paisley styled humor to "Friends with Tractors," a track first recorded by its co-writer Rhett Akins a few years ago. Mashing up banjos and guitars, the pride of rural living is the theme of album opener "Tell a Country Boy." While the current single has a sing-a-long groove to it, the title cut "It's America" faults on its grating and dated images of Middle America ideals. The notions of teenagers selling lemonades on the streets and songs of Bruce Springsteen as icons of American life sound a generation too late.

Two inspirational songs "Rockin' of the Cradle" and "It's My Time" both deal with the need to cape diem. To have them one following another in the sequence of the songs, shows a lack of forethought. Though Doug Johnson and Kim Williams' "Rockin' of the Cradle" with its well thought out storyline is the better of the two. "Best Things" finds Atkins delving into the contentious issue of the gender divide with a cheeky salute to the feminine sex. However, most disappointing about the entire disc is the lack of slow and romantic ballads. Fans who have fallen for Atkins' breakthrough hit "Honesty" will not find any repeats here. The only bona fide ballad comes 11 tracks into the disc with the Dave Berg, Anne and Sam Tate penned "The River Just Knows." A cleverly written story song about a chance meeting with a man by the river leading to a message of forgiveness, "The River Just Knows" has layers and layers of spiritual overtones worthy of rumination.

From a commercial point of view the future looks bright for Atkins "It's America." Atkins and Curb Records have pressed all the right buttons for what it takes to produce hits. Atkins' passionate performance will have fans eating straight out of his hands as he can get the crowd rocking till the cows come home. However, such a keening eye on the charts has caused a built-in emotional void that's often felt in the uptempoes. And the few and far in between ballads have also brought a discount to the variety of the songs and emotions.
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Description of It's America

It's America is the new album that follows in the wake of the platinum selling CD, If You're Going Through Hell which produced four #1 singles, three #1 videos and a slew of accomplishments including ACM's New Male Vocalist of the Year. The new album features the down home message of 'Tell A Country Boy' to the raucous and playful '15 Minutes' to the fist pumping hit single, 'It's America'. Rodney Atkins music has always had the uncanny ability to relate to people s everyday lives. As Rodney puts it, 'sometimes it is the simple things in this great country that really make me appreciate it. When we share this sense of pride through music, you become friends with everybody listening. It s an honor to go out there and represent the everyday man and woman, to represent country music and what it's all about.'

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