Amazon.com: 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
Disc 1:
I Love This Bar
Whiskey Girl
American Soldier
If I Was Jesus
Time For Me To Ride
Sweet
Don't Leave, I Think I Love You
Nights I Can't Remember, Friends I'll Never Forget
USO Tour Trooper When it comes to "Country Music", I barely possess 'pedestrian knowledge. But for the past couple of years, I'm settling in. I have one guideline, however; A USO tour will be a selling point in any album purchase.
Classic Country This is one of the best all time Country singers. He knows how to write songs.
Why don't country singers fade away anymore? I'm so tired of these coca cola cowboys with hats that match their outfit, and lyrics that I could have written while takin' a leak behind a walgreens. I remember when I was in the military and he had all these stupid support the troops songs that were horrible, I mean when your in the military you don't wanna hear this war music all dang day and when you get one of these stupid songs stuck in your head, believe me it's a long dam* day. Oh yeah and Terry Clark opened up for him once at a concert of his and made him look like Tito. Hopefully he made a lot of money off of the war so hopefully he can retire from country music and let Randy Rogers or Pat green or somebody with half an ounce of talent correct the wrongs he's made in country music. Man he sucks, ok, i'm done
Awesome Lots of Hits On This One!!! This one of my favorite albums that Toby has released. I love all the tracks on here they are fabulous. My favorite are Whiskey Girl & American Soldier. A must for Toby fans that haven't added it to their collection or someone that isn't a fan yet but is interested in buying an album that showcases Toby's style as well as this album does.
Awful A friend of mine recommended it to me. I didn't like it at all. He got the title right. Shocking. The Taliban Song is the one I hate the most. Stupid and ignorant. Hearing the audience cheer when he sings about bombing people is shocking. It is beyond me why they think it is ok to kill people and it is the right thing to do. He claims he 'prays for peace on earth every night'. He can't be serious. The other songs are forgettable. Bland drivel is the only word I can think of to describe this album. I don't mean to bash TK fans who say it is a good album. That is their opinion, but they cannot convince me that this album with idiotic lyrics is a Country album and a good one. This guy is not in the level of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson or the Dixie chicks. He has a long way to go for this sort of comparison. This album is not for me. Not worth adding to my cd collection. I wouldn't recommend it to anybody.
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