Shock'n Y'all (CD)

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• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: November 4, 2003
• Label: Dreamworks Nashville
• UPC: 600445043527
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106432430
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #8427 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #84230 in Country (See Top 100 Country Bestsellers)
• #98 in Contemporary Country (See Top 100 Contemporary Country Bestsellers)

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This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

Personnel: Toby Keith (vocals, acoustic guitar); Biff Watson, Scotty Emerick, Mark Casstevens (acoustic guitar); Brent Mason, Jerry McPherson, Kenny Greenberg (electric guitar); Paul Franklin (steel guitar); Phil Madeira (dobro); Julian King (trumpet, background vocals); Clayton Ivey, Steve Nathan (piano, keyboards); Glenn Worf, Mike Brignardello (bass); Shannon Forrest (drums); Wes Hightower, John Wesley Ryles, James Stroud (background vocals).

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

A lot happened to Toby Keith between the release of this album and the previous year's UNLEASHED. The latter's "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue" was a jingoistic, post-9/11 smash that caused much furor. A well-publicized feud with the Bush-bashing Dixie Chicks further raised his profile.

With SHOCK'N Y'ALL's album cover and title referencing the war in Iraq, it's obvious Keith had few regrets. Regardless, things start off amiably enough with "I Love This Bar," a souse's reverie worthy of Jerry Jeff Walker or Bobby Bare. Before too long, though, Keith delves into some unabashed liberal-baiting with "American Soldier" and critic-baiting with the self-explanatory "The Critic." The ante is upped considerably on an in-concert recording of "The Taliban Song," about the aftermath of the Afghanistan bombing, but the album closes out on an irreverent note of a different kind with a humorous tune about the after-effects of smoking "Weed with Willie."

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