Shock'n Y'all

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Shock'n Y'all
Studio album with live tracks by Toby Keith
Released	November 4, 2003
Genre	Country
Length	50:21
Label	DreamWorks
Producer	James Stroud, Toby Keith
Professional reviews
Allmusic link Entertainment Weekly (mixed) link Rolling Stone link
Toby Keith chronology
20th Century Masters (2003) Shock'n Y'all (2003) Greatest Hits 2 (2004)

Shock'n Y'all is an album by country music superstar Toby Keith, released in 2003. The album features 10 studio tracks and the 2 live "Bus Songs". The album has been certified 4× Multi-Platinum in the U.S. for shipments in excess of 4 million units.

The album title is a play on shock and awe - the phrase used by the US military to describe the initial air offensive against Saddam Hussein's Iraq in 2003.^{[citation needed]}

"I Love This Bar", "American Soldier" and "Whiskey Girl" were the three tracks from the album to be released as singles, and all reached Number One on the Hot Country Songs charts. "I Love This Bar" has inspired a chain of restaurants that Keith has launched under the name I Love This Bar And Grill.

Keith wrote or co-wrote 11 of the 12 songs with his frequent collaborator Scotty Emerick, who also sings backup on the live tracks.

[edit] Track listing

1. "I Love This Bar" (Toby Keith, Scotty Emerick) - 5:35
2. "Whiskey Girl" (Keith, Emerick) - 3:59
3. "American Soldier" (Keith, Chuck Cannon) - 4:23
4. "If I Was Jesus" (Cannon, Phil Madeira) - 3:44
5. "Time for Me to Ride" (Keith, Cannon) - 5:22
6. "Sweet" (Keith, Emerick, Cannon) - 3:06
7. "Don't Leave (I Think I Love You)" (Keith, Ronnie Dunn) - 3:46
8. "Nights I Can't Remember, Friends I'll Never Forget" (Keith, Emerick) - 4:00
9. "Baddest Boots" (Keith) - 4:23
10. "The Critic" (Keith) - 4:02
11. "The Taliban Song" (Keith, Emerick) - 3:58^A
12. "Weed with Willie" (Keith, Emerick) - 4:03^A
    • duet with Scotty Emerick (uncredited)

^ALive tracks.

[edit] Personnel

• Mike Brignardello - bass guitar
• Mark Casstevens - acoustic guitar
• Scotty Emerick - acoustic guitar
• Shannon Forest - drums
• Paul Franklin - steel guitar
• Kenny Greenberg - electric guitar
• Wes Hightower - background vocals
• Clayton Ivey - keyboards
• Julian King - percussion, trumpet, background vocals
• Jerry McPherson - electric guitar
• Phil Madeira - Dobro
• Brent Mason - electric guitar
• Steve Nathan - piano
• John Wesley Ryles - background vocals
• James Stroud - percussion, background vocals
• Biff Watson - acoustic guitar
• Glenn Worf - bass guitar

[edit] Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
2003	Billboard 200	1

Preceded by Speakerboxxx/The Love Below by OutKast	Billboard 200 number-one album November 16, 2003 - November 22, 2003	Succeeded by The Black Album by Jay-Z
Preceded by Greatest Hits Volume II by Alan Jackson	Top Country Albums number-one album November 22, 2003 - February 20, 2004	Succeeded by When the Sun Goes Down by Kenny Chesney
Preceded by Up! by Shania Twain	Top Country Albums number-one album of the year 2004	Succeeded by Greatest Hits by Shania Twain

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