Toby Keith CD

MUSIC

COUNTRY

Song Listing

Disc 1

Song Title

1. Should've Been A Cowboy ~ Toby Keith

2. He Ain't Worth Missing ~ Toby Keith

3. Under The Fall ~ Toby Keith

4. Some Kinda Good Kinda Hold On Me ~ Toby Keith

5. Wish I Didn't Know Now ~ Toby Keith

6. Ain't No Thang ~ Toby Keith

7. Valentine ~ Toby Keith

8. Little Less Talk And A Lot More Action, A ~ Toby Keith

9. Mama Come Quick ~ Toby Keith

10. Close But No Guitar ~ Toby Keith

Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
	Personnel: Toby Keith (vocals); Mark Casstevens (acoustic guitar, harmonica); Kenny Bell, Donald Potter (acoustic guitar); Michael Crossno, John Willis, Reggie Young, Jim Kimball (electric guitar); Sonny Garrish (steel guitar, dobro); Johnie Helms (steel guitar); Denis Solee (saxophone); Troy Turner, Clayton Ivey, Chris Trupe (keyboards); Carl "Chuck" Goff Jr., Gary Lunn (bass); Scott Marcha, Milton Sledge, Keith Mellington (drums); Dennis Wilson, Thomas Flora, Michael Black, Lon Wilson (background vocals).
	Recorded at Music Mill Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee. Includes liner notes by Toby Keith.
	Personnel: Toby Keith (vocals); Mark Casstevens (guitar, acoustic guitar, harmonica); Don Potter (guitar, acoustic guitar); Michael Crossno (guitar, electric guitar); Ken Bell (guitar); Kenny Bell (acoustic guitar); Jim Kimball , John Willis, Reggie Young (electric guitar); Sonny Garrish (steel guitar, dobro); Johnny Helms (steel guitar); Denis Solee (saxophone); Clayton Ivey, Chris Trupe, Troy Turner (keyboards); Scott Marcha, Milton Sledge, Keith Mellington (drums); Thomas Flora, Michael Black, Lonnie Wilson, Dennis Wilson (background vocals).
	Audio Mixer: Ron Reynolds.
	Recording information: Music Mill Recording Studio, Nashville, TN.
	On the cover of his eponymous 1993 debut, Toby Keith doesn't quite look like the big, swaggering dog that became a superstar roughly seven years later -- he's too thin, his shirt too crisp, his mullet too drastic, his smile too eager -- but image isn't everything. Underneath that cover, it sure is possible to hear the roots of modern Toby Keith on this appealing debut. It is given a production that's a bit too big, clean, glossy and cavernous for Keith's good -- it fits the outsized sound of early-'90s radio, but not his outsized talent -- but beneath that sheen the songs are very strong. He wrote all but two here -- the cheerfully swinging "Some Kinda Good Kinda Hold on Me" and the very good "A Little Less Talk and a Lot More Action," which winningly echoes the Georgia Satellites' "Keep Your Hands to Yourself," aren't his -- and he's already showing considerable range as a writer, already revealing his wry sense of humor on "Close But No Guitar" and expertly playing of Western mythology on "Should've Been a Cowboy" which was his deserved breakthrough. But if that song, combined with his latter macho stance, suggests that he was always all outlaw, most of Toby Keith is surprisingly within poppier territory, as "Ain't No Thang," "He Ain't Worth Missing" and "Wish I Didn't Know Now" all bear influences from Ronnie Milsap. He'd later develop this influence, blending it to a rowdier stance that became his signature, but looking back on this debut it's clear that Keith was a writer and singer of considerable skill even at the outset of his career. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Producer: Harold Shedd; Nelson Larkin
Engineer: Joe Sciafe; Jim Cotton; Joe Scaife

Compilation Appearances

	20 Greatest Hits
	Live & Kickin
	Last Man Standing
	Rebound
	Now That?s What I Call A Country Part
	Hag:best Of Merle Haggard
	Now Country 5

Associated Artists and Works

	On, Pickin'
	Original Soundtrack
	Pickin' On

Technical Info

	Release Date : 04/20/1993
	Original Release Date : 1993
	Catalog ID : AA3145144212
	Label : Mercury
	Number of Discs : 1
	Studio/Live : Studio
	Mono/Stereo : Stereo
	SPAR Code : n/a
	UPC : 00731451442124

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Toby Keith (1993)

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