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New studio album from TOBY KEITH. Contains 11 new tracks including “She Never Cried In Front of Me”, a major impact ballad about love lost. Atists:   Toby Keith Audio CD:   Company:  Show Dog  (2008-10-28) List Price:  $18.98 Amazon Price:  $9.74 Used Price:  $6.53

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Toby Keith has never been shy, but on Unleashed the Oklahoman proves he has more in common with Charlie Daniels and Hank Williams Jr. than you might have thought. The headline-making hit single “Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue (The Angry American)” will either impress you as a piece of jingoistic hooey or rally your fighting blood with its images (”the Statue of Liberty started shaking her fist”) of patriotic retaliation. The “eye for an eye” mood continues on “Beer for My Horses,” a frontier-justice saga on which Willie Nelson duets. But after that, things start falling into the usual formula: a killer pop ballad (”Rock You Baby”), some smart-ass sexual grandstanding (”Who’s Your Daddy”), and a few midtempo ruminations on life and love that catch the ear but ultimately prove forgettable. By the time he gets to “It Works for Me,” in which Keith celebrates the virtues of country living (”If it’s so good in the city / Why don’t anybody smile?”), you’ll swear it’s a Bocephus CD in your player. Oh, you rowdy boys! –Alanna Nash Author:  Toby Keith Audio CD:   Company:  Dreamworks Nashville  (2002-07-23) List Price:  $13.98 Amazon Price:  $4.96 Used Price:  $0.01

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Oklahoma singer Toby Keith is neither a remarkable singer nor songwriter. Yet in his more inspired and focused moments on his sixth studio album–his first for DreamWorks–Keith does occasionally manage to transcend his journeyman’s limitations and achieve a sort of workaday eloquence. On patchily conceived and executed songs like the self-written “Die with Your Boots On” and a pointless ditty called “Country Comes to Town,” even Keith’s hard-edged baritone swaggering over flashy, high-voltage arrangements can disguise the basic lack of musical substance and creative vision. Yet on “Heart to Heart,” a tender song Keith wrote for his young son, and an exquisite story song called “New Orleans,” Keith surprises by turning in heartfelt, impassioned performances that transcend the general ordinariness that is otherwise the order of the day. –Bob Allen Atists:   Toby Keith Audio CD:   Company:  Dreamworks Nashville  (1999-11-02) List Price:  $13.98 Amazon Price:  $4.31 Used Price:  $0.86

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On his first totally controlled album for his own label, Toby Keith adds another title to his résumé: producer. Throughout, the former Oklahoma wildcatter, who’s taken heat for his blustery patriotism and outspoken remarks, seems to be seeking new respect, shifting the focus off of politics and grandstanding and back to his talents as a musician. While his last album, White Trash with Money , found him flirting with R&B and adding horns for a bit more bump, his latest effort finds him nearly in a singer-songwriter mood, taking more time to craft the sound of the tracks and laying down his own harmonies. He’s still relying on gimmicky wordplay and cartoon puffery for his full-tilt radio numbers (”High Maintenance Woman,” “Big Dog Daddy”), but he also showcases the sensitive, ballad-heavy side of his personality that hasn’t been as apparent since the ’90s (”Does That Blue Moon Ever Shine on You,” “We Were in Love”). He achieves this with some fine cowriting–the winsome “I Know She Hung the Moon” and “Walk It Off,” and the lusty “Burnin’ Moonlight.” He also finds two excellent covers, Fred Eaglesmith’s “White Rose” (which combines nostalgia for full-service gas stations with that of a teen’s coming of age) and the thoughtful Craig Wiseman/Chris Wallin ballad “Love Me If You Can.” The latter, a quiet social commentary, revisits Keith’s familiar theme of holding one’s ground, but with a far more compassionate approach than he’s tried before. Consider it a meditation from a brash king of the hill who hasn’t forgotten how to be humble. –Alanna Nash Atists:   Toby Keith Audio CD:   Company:  Show Dog Nashville  (2007-06-12) List Price:  $18.98 Amazon Price:  $4.29 Used Price:  $2.17

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As a survey of Toby Keith’s first four recordings (not including the seasonal Christmas to Christmas ), this set turns in some strong singles, making the case for the Okie singer-songwriter as one of the more traditionally minded of the ’90s hat acts. Keith rarely devastates as a singer, but he never overreaches, and there’s more than a bit of grit in his delivery of “Should’ve Been a Cowboy” and “He Ain’t Worth Missing.” His emotional triumph remains the obsessive “Who’s That Man,” in which Keith sees another man living the life he threw away. Keith also includes two songs not available elsewhere, complementing an appealing mainstream country set. –Roy Kasten Atists:   Toby Keith Audio CD:   Company:  Mercury Nashville  (1998-10-20) List Price:  $13.98 Amazon Price:  $3.77 Used Price:  $0.01

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Since Toby Keith’s commercial success and canny image manipulation show how shrewd he is, perhaps the best explanation for songs as lackluster as “Note to Self” (a generic Rolling Stones arrangement with a hokey lyric) and “Runnin’ Block” (about bedding an unattractive woman for the benefit of a buddy) are either laziness or pandering. On White Trash with Money , his first release on his own Show Dog imprint (and without longtime producer James Stroud), Keith occasionally appears to be stretching himself–on the string-laden balladry of “A Little Too Late,” the tender “Crash Here Tonight,” and perhaps his finest vocal performance to date on “Too Far This Time”–but often seems to be coasting. “Get Drunk and Be Somebody,” “Grain of Salt,” and “Brand-New Bow” are never less (and little more) than dumb fun, while “Can’t Buy You Money” is a clever twist on the “money can’t buy you love” adage. The most contentious track here, “Ain’t No Right Way,” is just waving a red flag at those who refuse to reduce complex issues to simple black-and-white. Keith insists that he only writes as many songs as he needs to record; this time, some quality control might have required writing a few more. –Don McLeese Atists:   Toby Keith Audio CD:   Company:  Show Dog Nashville  (2006-04-11) List Price:  $18.98 Amazon Price:  $4.78 Used Price:  $2.59

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