These Are My People

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“These Are My People”
Single by Rodney Atkins
from the album If You're Going Through Hell
Released 2007
Format CD single, digital download
Genre Country
Length 3:34
Label Curb
Writer(s) Rivers Rutherford, Dave Berg
Producer Rodney Atkins, Ted Hewitt
Rodney Atkins singles chronology
"Watching You"
(2006)		 "These Are My People"
(2007)		 "Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)"
(2007)
If You're Going Through Hell track listing
"These Are My People"
(1)		 "About The South"
(2)

"These Are My People" is a single, released in 2007, by American country music artist Rodney Atkins. It is the third single released from his 2006 platinum album If You're Going Through Hell,[1] as well as the third straight Number One single from that album.[2] The song references the Lynyrd Skynyrd songs "Gimme Three Steps", "Simple Man", and "The Ballad of Curtis Loew".

[edit] Chart performance

Chart (2007) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 42
U.S. Billboard Pop 100 96

[edit] References

  1. ^ Rodney Atkins Closes in on Another No. 1 (html). GAC.com (2007-08-20). Retrieved on 2007-08-23.
  2. ^ Watts, Cindy (2007-10-26). Rodney Atkins celebrates "My People" success. The Tennesseean. Retrieved on 2007-12-28.
Preceded by
"Never Wanted Nothing More"
by Kenny Chesney		 Billboard Hot Country Songs
number-one single
September 8, 2007		 Succeeded by
"More Than a Memory"
by Garth Brooks
v • d • e
Rodney Atkins
Albums
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"
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