Unleashed
| Toby Keith
Unleashed
Unleashed is the seventh studio album by American country music singer Toby Keith, released in 2002 on DreamWorks Records Nashville. Certified 4 platinum for sales of four million copies in the U.S., the album produced four hit singles on the Hot Country Songs charts: "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)", "Who's Your Daddy ", "Rock You Baby", and "Beer for My Horses". All of these singles reached number one on the Hot Country Songs charts, except "Rock You Baby" which peaked at number 13- Wikipedia
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Those who are brought in by that slice of flag-waving jingoism should be pleased by the sweeter fare here since, ultimately, it proves to be more substantive.
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My Kind of Country
There are a few notable tracks, but on the whole Unleashed just isn’t worth the effort.
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Pop Matters
Allows Keith to show off his considerable vocal prowess, as well as being brilliantly structured putting Keith up with the best when it comes to writing high-quality contemporary, country music.
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Entertain Your Brain
"Courtesy" is such a strong song that it alone is worth picking up the album, as well as some of the other songs on the first half .
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Swap a CD
You'll swear it's a Bocephus CD in your player. Oh, you rowdy boys!
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Independent
The rest of what is a drab-to-average big-hat country-rock album that it's a wonder they even bothered recording the other tracks.
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Slate
Most of all, he knew there would be an audience for this sentiment, expressed in this way. And he was right.
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People
A little too much Yankee Doodling, but otherwise dandy.
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Robert Christgau
Pithy and heartfelt, and the album still gave up a colloquial aptness and easy masculinity I'd overlooked.
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Best Country Singers
It's Stones-like groove is almost enough to make one forgive Keith's insistence upon tacking a live introduction to "Angry American" at the closing to bookend the otherwise-appealing UNLEASHED.
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News OK
That good-hearted spirit that is my favorite Keith trademark is in full force.
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Top Brands stock
Far more palatable are the 11 songs that follow, from the gutsy, churning "Who's Your Daddy?" to the modified Jimmy Buffett-isms of "Good to Go to Mexico,"
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Slacker
Most of this album is hardly tough macho posturing. Sure, there's some of it, but most of this album is tuneful singer/songwriterism.
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Country Standard Time
There are more hits than misses, but this falls short of being a career album.
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