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Oklahoma-born Nashville-based country singer-songwriter Toby Keith became a
star of the genre via a sequence of solid collections:
Toby Keith (1993), produced by Nelson Larkin and Harold Shedd, with
Should've Been a Cowboy, He Ain't Worth Missing and
Wish I Didn't Know Now,
Boomtown (1995), with You Ain't Much Fun and Who's That Man,
Blue Moon (1996), with Does That Blue Moon Ever Shine on You and Me Too (that began his collaboration with songwriter Chuck Cannon),
Dream Walkin' (1997), which began his collaboration with producer James Shroud, containing We Were in Love (written by Chuck Cannon and Allen Shamblin).
Getcha Some appeared on the compilation Greatest Hits Volume One (1998).
By now a superstar, he continued to deliver albums in synch with the mood of the country:
How Do You Like Me Now?! (1999), with You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This and How Do You Like Me Now,
Pull My Chain (2001), with I'm Just Talkin' About Tonight (his first major hit signed by Scotty Emerick) and I Wanna Talk About Me (written by Bobby Braddock)
Unleashed (2002), with Courtesy of the Red White and Blue and Who's Your Daddy?,
Shock'n Y'All (2003), with I Love This Bar (another collaboration with Emerick), American Soldier (Chuck Cannon), and Whiskey Girl (Emerick) and the mega-hit Beer for My Horses a duet with Willie Nelson written again (Emerick again),
and
Honkytonk University (2005), the last album produced by James Shroud, with one of his mega-hits, As Good as I Once Was (Scotty Emerick again).
Stays in Mexico appeared on Greatest Hits 2 (2004).
White Trash with Money (2006), produced by Cannon's wife Lari White, whose two hits Get Drunk and Be Somebody A Little Too Late were both Emerick collaborations, began a new era (in which he relied more on other songwriters),
an era that continued with albums
produced by himself:
Big Dog Daddy (2007),
with Love Me If You Can (written by Chris Wallin and Craig Wiseman),
That Don't Make Me a Bad Guy (2008), produced by himself, with
She Never Cried in Front of Me (Bobby Pinson) God Love Her (Vicky McGehee),
American Ride (2009), with American Ride (Joe West and Dave Pahanish),
Bullets in the Gun (2010), which became Keith's first album without a top-10 hit,
and
Clancy's Tavern (2011), with Red Solo Cup (composed by Brett and Jim Beavers with the Warren Brothers) and Made in America (Bobby Pinson and Scott Reeves).
He faded away with the mediocre collections
Hope on the Rocks (2012),
Drinks After Work (2013),
35 MPH Town (2015),
and
Peso in My Pocket (2021).
Keith died in 2024 of cancer.
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