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Toby Keith - Shock'n Y'All
Audio CD (November 4, 2003)
Original Release Date: November 4, 2003
Format: Enhanced
Label: Dreamworks
Bitrate: 320 kbps
A former oil field worker, Toby Keith has always known how to capture the passions of blue-collar men and women, desperate to blow off steam at the end of the day. As such, he’s stocked his latest album with themes designed to push all the right emotional buttons--patriotism, Jesus, buddy love, fast women, and reality altering substances. "I Love This Bar," the first single, offers a kinder, gentler Keith than the boot-shoving redneck of "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue ( The Angry American) ." But as he segues to "American Soldier," a song so gung-ho and puffed up that it could be a musical recruitment poster, you know he’s gearing up for a scud missile of a payoff. Sure enough. By the time he gets to "The Taliban Song," a comedic and cartoonish skewering of The Enemy, recorded in concert, it’s hard to remember that he once wrote well-crafted ballads of romantic infatuation. Now it’s all grandstanding, baby, even the best-written song, a jazzy, talking blues which fillets his critics. If he’s not exactly "Shock’n Y’All" as the title suggests, he’s certainly putting his "Baddest Boots" forward. ~ Alanna Nash
I like Toby Keith, and I like this CD. The main criticism of this CD seems to be that Toby is doing hard edged, rhythm based songs more predominantly than romantic slow country ballads, or alternately that he is outspoken and pointed in his song writing. Well, no kidding. He takes the theme of patriotism to heart once again on this CD with songs such as the wry 'Taliban Song' and 'American Soldier.' The best two up tempo crossover songs on the CD are 'Time For Me to Ride' and 'Sweet.' There is a very amusing (and generally justified) stab at media critics in 'The Critic,' that takes the axiom that 'those who do, do; those who can't do, teach' to a new level. Lastly, another 'Bus Song,' 'Weed With Willie,' is an account of meeting Willie Nelson in his tour bus, and is not to be missed (although his in concert introduction does add quite a bit to the track, and I wish they would have left it in the track).
If you like hard edged country music or country-rock you will like the CD. If you want some politically correct, rose-tinted view of the world, save your
money. ~ Robert I. Hedges
Personnel:
Paul Franklin - steel guitar
Glenn Worf
Brent Mason
Steve Nathan - piano, keyboards
Biff Watson
Wes Hightower
Mark Casstevens - acoustic guitar
Shannon Forrest - drums
Kenny Greenberg - electric guitar
Toby Keith - vocals, acoustic guitar
Toby Keith - Shock'n Y'All Tracks:
01 I Love This Bar
02 Whiskey Girl
03 American Soldier
04 If I Was Jesus
05 Time For Me to Ride
06 Sweet
07 Don't Leave, I Think I Love You
08 Nights I Can't Remember, Friends I'll Never Forget
09 Baddest Boots
10 Critic, The
11 Taliban Song, The
12 Weed With Willie