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| Released | June 12, 2007 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 37:51 | |||
| Label | Show Dog Nashville | |||
| Producer | Toby Keith | |||
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Big Dog Daddy is the eleventh studio album by American country music artist Toby Keith. It was released on June 12, 2007 by Show Dog Nashville. Its first single, "High Maintenance Woman," which was released before the album came out, peaked at number three on the country charts. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 and the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, selling 204,000 copies in its first week. It was Keith's third number one on the Billboard 200 and his fifth on the Top Country Albums chart.[1] In addition, this was the first album of Keith's career that he produced entirely on his own, having previously co-produced all but his first two albums.
Critical reception
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| 411Mania | (8/10)[2] |
| About.com |  [3] |
| AllMusic |  [4] |
| The A.V. Club | B−[5] |
| Common Sense Media | [6] |
| Entertainment Weekly | A−[7] |
| USA Today | [8] |
AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave praise to Keith's talents as a singer-songwriter, noting his storytelling abilities on the record's two covers and his exploration of both his sensitive and partying sides on "Wouldn't Wanna Be Ya" as "remarkably affecting", concluding with "And that's the real secret to Keith's success: underneath all the bragging he's a songwriter and a damn good one at that, which this lean, sinewy, stripped-to-the-basics record makes clear."[4] Kathi Kamen Goldmark of Common Sense Media praised the musicianship and discussions of social class and wealth in America throughout the album but found criticism in some tracks containing alcohol debauchery and saccharine sentiment, concluding that Keith is "a man who's not afraid to be himself -- someone who knows his way around both small-town America and a musical hook, and isn't afraid to use it."[6] Entertainment Weekly writer Ken Tucker praised Keith for delivering "artistic sincerity" and clever delivery and wordplay throughout the track listing, concluding that "All of this suggests Keith understands that beyond its default mode of rowdiness, country music is the soundtrack for adulthood, its pleasures as well as its disillusionments."[7]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "High Maintenance Woman" | Toby Keith, Tim Wilson, Danny Simpson | 3:21 |
| 2. | "Love Me If You Can" | Chris Wallin, Craig Wiseman | 3:36 |
| 3. | "White Rose" | Fred Eaglesmith | 3:47 |
| 4. | "Get My Drink On" | Keith, Scotty Emerick, Dean Dillon | 3:07 |
| 5. | "Wouldn't Wanna Be Ya" | Keith, Emerick | 3:18 |
| 6. | "Big Dog Daddy" | Keith | 3:53 |
| 7. | "I Know She Hung the Moon" | Keith, Emerick | 3:35 |
| 8. | "Pump Jack" | Keith, Bobby Pinson | 3:29 |
| 9. | "Burnin' Moonlight" | Keith, Emerick, Dillon | 3:51 |
| 10. | "Walk It Off" | Keith, Emerick | 3:02 |
| 11. | "Hit It" | Keith, Wiseman | 2:52 |
| Total length: | 37:51 | ||
Personnel
Credits for Big Dog Daddy adapted from AllMusic.[9]
- Tom Bukovac – electric guitar
- Carter's Chord (Becky, Emily and Joanna Robertson) – background vocals
- Perry Coleman – background vocals
- Chad Cromwell – drums
- Eric Darken – percussion
- Shannon Forrest – drums
- Paul Franklin – steel guitar, Dobro
- Kenny Greenberg – electric guitar
- Aubrey Haynie – fiddle, mandolin
- Rob Ickes – Dobro
- Clayton Ivey – piano, keyboards
- Toby Keith – lead vocals, background vocals
- Jerry McPherson – electric guitar
- Brent Mason – electric guitar
- Mac McAnally – acoustic guitar
- Steve Nathan – piano, keyboards
- Dave Pomeroy – bass guitar
- Randy Scruggs – acoustic guitar
- Glenn Worf – bass guitar
- Jonathan Yudkin – strings
Chart performance
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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References
- ↑ Hasty, Katie (June 20, 2007). "Toby Keith's 'Big Dog' Heads Straight To No. 1". Billboard. Retrieved March 24, 2013.
- ↑ "411Mania review". Archived from the original on April 10, 2013. Retrieved March 31, 2013.
- ↑ "About.com review". Archived from the original on 2007-09-05. Retrieved 2013-03-31.
- 1 2 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Big Dog Daddy - Toby Keith". AllMusic. Retrieved March 31, 2013.
- ↑ Battaglia, Andy (July 3, 2007). "Toby Keith: Big Dog Daddy". The A.V. Club. The Onion. Retrieved March 31, 2013.
- 1 2 Goldmark, Kathi Kamen. "Big Dog Daddy Music Review". Common Sense Media. Retrieved March 31, 2013.
- 1 2 Tucker, Ken (June 8, 2007). "Big Dog Daddy". Entertainment Weekly. Time Inc. Retrieved July 10, 2011.
- ↑ Mansfield, Brian (June 11, 2007). "Listen Up: Keith's 'Daddy' fulfills, confounds". USA Today. Gannett Company. Retrieved June 12, 2013.
- ↑ "Big Dog Daddy - Toby Keith | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved June 10, 2019.
- ↑ "Toby Keith Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard.
- ↑ "Toby Keith Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard.
- ↑ "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2007". Billboard. Retrieved November 30, 2020.
- ↑ "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2007". Billboard. Retrieved November 30, 2020.