"We defy anybody to watch Atkins' award-winning video for "Watching You" and not get a little teary-eyed. The country star wrote the song inspired by his son, Elijah, who also stars in the video. Atkins also is a loving stepdad to his wife Tammy's two daughters. ... "
Rodney Atkins has spent the past few years opening for some of country’s biggest acts.
But it seems his days as a supporting player are coming to a close. As Brad Paisley told him one night at a show, “Your time’s coming, my friend.”
Rodney Atkins has spent the past few years opening for some of country’s biggest acts.
But it seems his days as a supporting player are coming to a close. As Brad Paisley told him one night at a show, “Your time’s coming, my friend.”
The city became a “Cowboy Town” on Sunday night, courtesy of the Brooks & Dunn concert at Toyota Pavilion at Montage Mountain.
After a pair of raucous opening acts, the headliners exploded onto the stage by 9 p.m. to their smash single and namesake of their tour, “Cowboy Town.” Backed by a seven-piece band and three sultry female backup singers, Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn had each of the 6,424 people in attendance on their feet and screaming themselves hoarse right from the beginning.
“You Can’t Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl” brought the crowd to new heights of frenzy, especially when Brooks whipped off his brown leather jacket and shouted “Looks like a good place to party, doesn’t it?”
Riverbend’s Coca-Cola barge is an unusual stage, but it’s not the weirdest place Rodney Atkins has ever performed.
“One time I sang at a wedding in grocery store,” the country singer said during a phone interview.
“A radio station in Knoxville was doing a contest, and the station and a grocery paid for the (winning couple’s) wedding and honeymoon. They asked me to sing. There I was in the frozen-food section singing ‘Keeper of the Stars.’”
