If You're Going Through Hell
If You're Going Through Hell is the second studio album by American country music artist Rodney Atkins. It was released on July 18, 2006 by Curb Records. The album was certified platinum by the Recording [Industry Association of America] after selling at least one million copies in the United States.
The album's first four singles — "If You're Going Through Hell (Before [the Devil Even Knows)]", "Watching You", "These Are My People" and "Cleaning This Gun (Come On In Boy)" — all reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart between 2006 and 2008. In addition, "If You're Going Through Hell (Before the Devil Even Knows" and "Watching You" were declared by Billboard as the Number One country songs of 2006 and 2007, respectively. The song "Invisibly Shaken" was originally recorded by Lee Greenwood on his 2003 album Stronger Than Time. Atkins' version of that song was released as the album's fifth and final single in early 2008 and peaked at No. 41.
Chart performance
Year-end charts
| Chart | Position |
| US Billboard 200 | 58 |
| US Top Country Albums | 10 |
Personnel
From If You're Going Through Hell liner notes.;Musicians
- Mike Brignardello - bass guitar
- Jim "Moose" Brown - piano
- Skip Cleavinger - Uilleann pipes
- Larry Franklin - fiddle, mandolin
- Rob Hajacos - fiddle
- Ted Hewitt - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, background vocals
- Angela Hurt - background vocals
- Mike Johnson - pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar
- Julian King - percussion
- Troy Lancaster - electric guitar
- B. James Lowry - acoustic guitar
- Brent Mason - electric guitar
- Gordon Mote - piano, Hammond organ
- Larry Paxton - bass guitar
- Gary Prim - piano, Hammond organ
- Scotty Sanders - pedal steel guitar
- Steve Sheehan - acoustic guitar
- Wanda Vick - banjo
- John Willis - acoustic guitar, banjo
- Lonnie Wilson - drums
;Technical
- Rodney Atkins - producer, engineering
- Billy Decker - mixing
- Tony Green - recording
- Ted Hewitt - producer, engineering
- P.T. Houston - recording
- Julian King - mixing
- Craig White - recording
- Hank Williams - mastering