True South
Rodney Atkins
True South is the sixth studio album by East Tennessee-born country singer Rodney Atkins, released on May 29, 2026 via Curb Records — his long-awaited follow-up to 2019's Caught Up in the Country. The 12-track record was co-produced by Atkins alongside Jordan Schmidt, Brandon Hood, Ted Hewitt, Seth Mosley, and Michael "X" O'Connor, with Atkins co-writing six of the songs. Rooted in the vernacular of Appalachia and the sounds of rural Tennessee, the album is dedicated to his fans and is fundamentally a record about marriage, fatherhood, and small-town life, with his wife Rose Falcon serving as both a co-writer on several tracks and a featured collaborator. Essentially Pop called it "one of the most heartfelt country albums in recent memory," praising Atkins's "warm and utterly distinctive voice" as the thread that holds the album's range of moods together.
The tracklist moves through fun, swaggering anthems like "Helluvit" — built around the true story of a 2 a.m. Vegas marriage proposal to Falcon — and crowd-ready singalongs like "All Y'all" and "Hole in One," while saving its most emotionally resonant moments for the album's quieter passages. "Marry Me Again," written for Rose on their tenth wedding anniversary, and the duet "Believe Me" (featuring Falcon) anchor the record's tender core, and the album closes with "Watching You 2.0" — a sequel to Atkins's signature 2006 hit, this time recorded with his eldest son Elijah Atkins, which OriginalRock.net described as cementing the album "not just as a great country record but as a document of an actual life, fully and gratefully lived."
True South
Rodney Atkins
True South is the sixth studio album by East Tennessee-born country singer Rodney Atkins, released on May 29, 2026 via Curb Records — his long-awaited follow-up to 2019's Caught Up in the Country. The 12-track record was co-produced by Atkins alongside Jordan Schmidt, Brandon Hood, Ted Hewitt, Seth Mosley, and Michael "X" O'Connor, with Atkins co-writing six of the songs. Rooted in the vernacular of Appalachia and the sounds of rural Tennessee, the album is dedicated to his fans and is fundamentally a record about marriage, fatherhood, and small-town life, with his wife Rose Falcon serving as both a co-writer on several tracks and a featured collaborator. Essentially Pop called it "one of the most heartfelt country albums in recent memory," praising Atkins's "warm and utterly distinctive voice" as the thread that holds the album's range of moods together.
The tracklist moves through fun, swaggering anthems like "Helluvit" — built around the true story of a 2 a.m. Vegas marriage proposal to Falcon — and crowd-ready singalongs like "All Y'all" and "Hole in One," while saving its most emotionally resonant moments for the album's quieter passages. "Marry Me Again," written for Rose on their tenth wedding anniversary, and the duet "Believe Me" (featuring Falcon) anchor the record's tender core, and the album closes with "Watching You 2.0" — a sequel to Atkins's signature 2006 hit, this time recorded with his eldest son Elijah Atkins, which OriginalRock.net described as cementing the album "not just as a great country record but as a document of an actual life, fully and gratefully lived."