Honesty is the debut studio album by American country music artist Rodney Atkins. It was released on October 14, 2003 by Curb Records.
Honesty produced four chart singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts with "Sing Along" (No. 36), "My Old Man" (No. 37), "Honesty (Write Me a List)" (No. 4), and "Someone to Share It With" (No. 41). The album's fifth single, "Monkey in the Middle", failed to chart. This song and two others on the album were co-written by Brian Gowan, who recorded on Curb in 1997 in the duo Blake & Brian.
Track listing
Personnel Walt Aldridge- bouzouki Rodney Atkins- loop programming, lead vocals, background vocals Bekka Bramlett- background vocals Mike Brignardello- bass guitar Shannon Forrest- drums Bruce Gaitsch- bass guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar Sonny Garrish- steel guitar Mark Gillespie- acoustic guitar, gut string guitar, mandolin Ted Hewitt- acoustic guitar, electric guitar, loop programming, electric sitar, background vocals Wes Hightower- background vocals B. James Lowry- acoustic guitar, electric guitar Brent Mason- electric guitar Chris McHugh- drums, loop programming Gene Miller- background vocals Greg Morrow- drums Gordon Mote- Farfisa organ, keyboards Steve Nathan- keyboards, piano, Wurlitzer Justin Niebank- loop programming Kim Parent- background vocals Scotty Sanders- steel guitar, lap steel guitar Hank Singer- fiddle Russell Terrell- background vocals John Willis- acoustic guitar Lonnie Wilson- drums Jonathan Yudkin- bouzouki, fiddle, orchestra bells
Chart performance Album Chart (2003) Peakposition U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 50 U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers 47
Singles Year Single Peak chartpositions US Country US 2002 "Sing Along" 37 — "My Old Man" 36 — 2003 "Honesty (Write Me a List)" 4 57 2004 "Someone to Share It With" 41 — "Monkey in the Middle" — — "—" denotes releases that did not chart
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