Country music crooner Toby Keith has announced several dates for his BULLETS IN THE GUN 2011 Tour, hitting up some of the nation's most popular festivals like the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo, the Country Thunder, Summerfest, Jamboree, Frontier Days and the Big Valley Jamboree. Keith has made a big splash in the industry and just recently released his 14th studio album titled “Bullets in the Gun”. The record held onto the number one spot on the Billboard 200 chart.The singer was recently quoted talking about his new work. He said, "We write the song first. You never know when you write a song if you're going to record." He also noted that as a musician he wants to be seen "drinkin' and raisin' hell and having fun and laughing at me and everybody around me." The video for his Top 20 hit "Trailerhood" is an example of just how much joy Keith draws from his career as a musician. He also mentioned, "… the video we shot in a trailer park outside of Nashville”.
Keith has released thirteen studio albums, two Christmas albums, and multiple compilation albums. He has also charted more than forty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including nineteen Number One hits and sixteen additional Top Ten hits. His longest-lasting Number One hits are "Beer for My Horses" and "As Good as I Once Was” -- at six weeks each.
Toby Keith released his self-titled debut album in 1993 and almost immediately became a sensation on the music scene with the hit single "Should've Been a Cowboy." Several other singles followed immediately in its path, as did a number of studio albums, including "Boomtown", "Dream Walkin'" and "How Do You Like Me Now?!" In fact, the latter album won the honor for Album of the Year at the Academy of Country Music.
One of Keith's most popular and also most controversial recordings arrived in the summer of 2002. "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue" was made in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks and really hit a note with his fiercely patriotic listeners, while also alienating others who thought it was rough and distasteful. Nevertheless it continued to bring Keith to the forefront and he released a steady string of hit CDs over a short period of time including “That Don't Make Me a Bad Buy” in 2008, and then “American Ride” in 2009.
“Bullets in the Gun” hit the shelves in 2010 and once again show's Keith's determined aggressiveness. Just take a listen to ballads like the title track, "Somewhere Else," "Think About You All of the Time" and "Drive It on Home." Fans of Mr. Keith will no doubt be pleased with this latest release and you will want to see him perform live on stage at one of his upcoming gigs.
Toby Keith will be at the Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, Florida on Saturday October 15, 2011.
