Atkins' fifth studio album, 'Caught Up in the Country,' reveals an artist who is confident enough to know that making your best music can require patience and experimentation.

While his storied career has reached such heights as being named the Top New Male Vocalist at the 2006 ACM awards and seeing his single "Watching You" become the Number One Song of the Decade according to Country Aircheck, it's been more than seven years since "Take a Back Road," his last record of new material.

But Atkins knew that this time, he wanted to bring his songs further than he had ever gone before.