Big Dog Daddy (2007)
| Artist: Toby Keith |
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Song Listing
""By. As in, sung by, written by, released by, produced by...
That last one's new for me. The only reason I never produced an album by myself before is I didn't have time. Why not? Because I'm opening record labels and restaurants, working on movies and things like that. But I knew I was going to have to across the board dive in if I wanted this album to be one of the best of my career. So I came in with guns blazing.
So a tremendous amount of thought, time and effort went into Big Dog Daddy. Last year when we were finishing White Trash with Money, Tom Bukovac came in and played guitar. I told him I had a couple things that were going to be really rock edged on the next album, kind of a southern rock and blues thing. I asked him to take them from the guitar side and think about grooves and rhythms -- help structure these things. So he and I co-produced ""Hit It"" and ""Big Dog Daddy,"" and I produced the rest by myself.
I sang my own harmonies on this album and I'd never done that before. I'd let harmony singers come in and do their thing. This time we'd get through laying down a song and the engineer would play it back while I threw down a harmony track. Me singing with me. ""High Maintenance Woman"" is one of them. ""White Rose"" and ""Love Me If You Can.""
You get out what you put in. I've always been the hardest worker, and prided myself on that. I may not be the biggest star around, but nobody will ever out work me. That's my approach.
For the first time ever, I've made an album that I can listen to up and down and never go, ""Man, I wish I didn't let them do that."" If I didn't like the way something sounded, I fixed it. There's a little piece on ""White Rose"" where the chorus says, ""Now there's plywood for glass where the windows all got smashed...there's a couple of cars half out of the ground..."" right in there you can hear the harmonies do a big swell. Well, when they comp'ed it down somebody lost that. I wa
Album Notes and Credits
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Personnel: Toby Keith (background vocals); Mac McAnally, Randy Scruggs (acoustic guitar); Jerry McPherson, Kenny Greenberg, Tom Bukovac, Brent Mason (electric guitar); Paul Franklin , Rob Ickes (dobro); Aubrey Haynie (mandolin, fiddle); Jonathan Yudkin (strings); Clayton Ivey, Steve Nathan (piano, keyboards); Shannon Forrest, Chad Cromwell (drums); Eric Darken (percussion); Becky Robertson, Perry Coleman (background vocals). |
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Audio Mixer: Mills Logan. |
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Recording information: Ocean Way Studios; Scruggs Sound. |
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Editor: Jed Hackett. |
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Photographers: Richard McLaren; Paul Natkin. |
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BIG DOG DADDY is the first album that Toby Keith wrote and produced on his own, and it features a harder edge than most of his previous records, closer to the country-rock of the Big and Rich axis than the neo-traditionalist crowd. In fact, BIG DOG DADDY seems like a sort of mid-career reset, a canny move for a country singer who sees musical trends changing on the horizon. Social trends as well: one song, "Love Me If You Can," obliquely addresses the uproar over Keith's political statements concerning the global war on terror; in the album's press materials, Keith is careful to claim allegiance to neither political party and asserts that he is in fact opposed to the Iraq war. Elsewhere, Keith wisely drops political matters entirely in favor of less incendiary country-rock topics like drinking, fighting, and women. The romantic "I Know She Hung the Moon" and the wry "High Maintenance Woman" are the album's musical and emotional poles, with hell-raising stompers like "Get My Drink On" and "Wouldn't Wanna Be Ya" sitting comfortably in the middle. |
Producer: Toby Keith; Tom Bukovac; Toby Keith; Tom Bukovac |
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Engineer: Mills Logan |
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Toby Keith - Big Dog Daddy - CD Review
By: Tom Patrick
Cinema Blend CD Reviews
Published on: 6/16/2007 7:30 PM
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| Big Dog Daddy is Keith's 12th studio release but his first attempt at producing. In all likelihood though, he might have just left the mixing board untouched from the previous country group in the studio. (Little-known fact: Keith is also a restaurateur--from listening to this album, I'm guessing his menu has such exotic foods as burgers and fries, and steak and potatoes. Ooh la la!) ...read the full review | |
Compilation Appearances
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20 Greatest Hits |
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Live & Kickin |
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Hag:best Of Merle Haggard |
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Last Man Standing |
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Rebound |
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Now Country 5 |
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Now That?s What I Call A Country Part |
Associated Artists and Works
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On, Pickin' |
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Original Soundtrack |
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Pickin' On |
Technical Info
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Release Date : 06/11/2007 |
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Original Release Date : 2007 |
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Catalog ID : AASDN 005 |
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Label : Show Dog Nashville |
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Number of Discs : 1 |
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Studio/Live : Studio |
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Mono/Stereo : Stereo |
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SPAR Code : n/a |
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UPC : 00852313001164 |
Bio
Toby Keith"By. As in, sung by, written by, released by, produced by...
That last one's new for me. The only reason I never produced an album by myself before is I didn't have time. Why not? Because I'm opening record labels and restaurants, working on movies and things like that. But I knew I was going to have to across the board dive in if I wanted this album to be one of the best of my career. So I came in with guns blazing.
So a tremendous amount of thought, time and effort went into Big Dog Daddy. Last year when we were finishing White Trash with Money, Tom Bukovac came in and played guitar. I told him I had a couple things that were going to be really rock edged on the next album, kind of a southern rock and blues thing. I asked him to take them from the guitar side and think about grooves and rhythms -- help structure these things. So he and I co-produced "Hit It" and "Big Dog Daddy," and I produced the rest by myself.
I sang my own harmonies on this album and I'd never done that before. I'd let harmony singers come in and do their thing. This time we'd get through laying down a song and the engineer would play it back while I threw down a harmony track. Me singing with me. "High Maintenance Woman" is one of them. "White Rose" and "Love Me If You Can."
You get out what you put in. I've always been the hardest worker, and prided myself on that. I may not be the biggest star around, but nobody will ever out work me. That's my approach.
For the first time ever, I've made an album that I can listen to up and down and never go, "Man, I wish I didn't let them do that." If I didn't like the way something sounded, I fixed it. There's a little piece on "White Rose" where the chorus says, "Now there's plywood for glass where the windows all got smashed...there's a couple of cars half out of the ground..." right in there you can hear the harmonies do a big swell. Well, when they comp'ed it down somebody lost that. I was already hearing it in my head and loved it, so I called back and told them to turn those harmonies up 25%. Ten years from now I'd have been wondering why the producer let that go." --Toby Keith
