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That Don't Make Me a Bad Guy | 
 enlarge | Artist: Toby Keith
Label: Show Dog
Category: Music
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 74
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 22
UPC: 812080010325
EAN: 0812080010325
ASIN: B001COVD90
Release Date: October 28, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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| • | That Don't Make Me A Bad Guy | | • | Creole Woman | | • | God Love Her | | • | Lost You Anyway | | • | Missing Me Some You | | • | Hurt A Lot Worse When You Go | | • | Time That It Would Take | | • | You Already Love Me | | • | She Never Cried In Front Of Me | | • | Cabo San Lucas | | • | I Got It For You Girl |
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Album Description
New studio album from TOBY KEITH. Contains 11 new tracks including "She Never Cried In Front of Me", a major impact ballad about love lost.
Album Description
Toby Keith has 23 Number 1 songs to his credit making him one of the premier singer and songwriters of any music genre. BMI has honored Toby with an award for over 50 million detected airplay spins placing him along side Elton John and the Bee Gees just to name a couple legends. He continues his consistent streak with his latest single 'She Never Cried in Front of Me' rapidly ascending up the country radio charts towards another number 1. This album features 11 new tracks either written or co-written by Toby. His 2008 Biggest and Baddest Tour is to date his the most successful of his career!
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| Customer Reviews:
 Weak November 20, 2008
Tom Andre Holen
I'm sorry Toby, but this isn't good at all. You're moving away from country with this album. There are 2 or 3 songs that is good, but the impression I sit with after listening through...it's a weak cd.
It starts out good with the title track, after that it's kind of boring, until the song "You Already Love Me" and "Cabo San Lucas", these two are good. So, all in all...too much pop and too little country.
Good Stuff! November 20, 2008
Christine Roszak (TN United States)
If you like Toby Keith, you'll like this album. It's fun to listen to and it's fun to sing along to, too! I liked that he mixed in ballads and soulful numbers with rambuctious songs. Very entertaining and well worth the money.
 With a little help from his friends, Keith makes his best album in a long time November 2, 2008
DanD
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Bobby Pinson is one of the most respected songwriters in Nashville, and deservedly so. Though he's known for crafting two of the most annoying songs of recent times (Sugarland's "All I Want to Do" and Keith's "She's a Hottie"), anyone who's listened to Pinson's own albums, or followed his songwriting career, knows that he is a masterful songwriter, full of nuance and a rugged grace. So it's telling, then, that Pinson co-wrote (with Keith) eight of the eleven songs here.
Not to say that Keith isn't a solid songwriter himself; of course he is. It's just that, lately, he's become too enamored with selling himself as a roughneck bad boy. Perhaps he is (there's too much arrogance in a lot of his stuff to be COMPLETELY fraudulent), but those of us who've followed his career miss the singer/songwriter of yore. It appears that it took another singer/songwriter (Pinson, filling in for Scotty Emerick, who is conspicuously absent here) to bring Keith back around.
His attitude is present here, most noticeably in "Time That It Would Take" and "You Already Love Me" (neither track a complete throwaway; the only cringe-inducing number here is "I Got It For You Girl," with "Cabo San Lucas" running a close second). But elsewhere, Keith is surprisingly tender and vulnerable--"Hurt a Lot Worse When You Go" is a stunner, and the first single, "She Never Cried in Front of Me," is a perfect example of Pinson's nuanced writing and Keith's subdued wit (often at his own expense). The title track is a good ol' number, reminiscent of "As Good As I Once Was." "God Love Her" is the story of a girl "baptized in dirty water," a little rocker that shows Keith in fine form. He shows impressive vocal restraint on the bluesy "Missing Me Some You," a song flawed only by its shallow hook (as a songwriter myself, I view the phrase "missing me some you"--especially as it is sung in this song--as a filler line, to be replaced later; apparently, Keith got lazy and decided to just go with it). "Lost You Anyway" is another powerful ballad, balanced out by "Creole Woman," another rockin' number kept afloat thanks to above-par writing and musicianship.
THAT DON'T MAKE ME A BAD GUY is definitely Keith's best overall album in a long time (since, say, HONKY TONK UNIVERSITY). He's grown as a producer, and has apparently learned to restrain the attitude somewhat (even to the extent of using it against himself, as he does on "She Never Cried in Front of Me"). While it's not a perfect record, it's proof--to those Keith fans who've appeared late in the game--that Toby Keith is a fine singer/songwriter, with a powerful voice that can convey an array of emotions (not just redneck pride). It certainly begs the question of where his next record will go: Is BAD GUY a bump in the road, or a promise of future craftsmanship? We can only hope for the latter.
A MORE EMOTIONAL THAN ATTITUDE ALBUM November 1, 2008
Christopher P. Smoot (High Point, North Carolina)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
In my opinion, Toby has done the smart thing with his new album. He has decided to lean more to his sensitive side ("She Never Cried In Front Of Me," "God Love Her") and tone down his famous in-your-face attitude ("How Do You Like Me Now?")that some have tired of. This is not to say Toby still can't kick things up with such numbers as the title track and "Time That It Would Take." After Toby's dissapointing last single, "She's a Hottie" it's nice to see Toby back with a nice collection of songs sung with feeling and emotion minus the attitude.
 Can I get my money back??? November 1, 2008
Christopher Winands (Southern California)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I used to be a Toby fan, been to his concerts and own literally every album he ever made. This is the last one I will buy. He started his own label to be independent, but this is a "focus group" album. Just junk. Nothing new, he rides his horse until it drops, and that looks to be pretty soon. He is a creative guy, but this cd has no place on the market.
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