A Man & His Music “We play the amphitheatres between
July and October, they’re outdoors and seat about 25 thousand people. There’s one in every city.”
With such demand in the US I asked
Toby why does he visit Europe. “When I fi rst started performing I worked 155 shows a year. My dad installed a work ethic in us when we were kids. I have now narrowed those shows down, so I can cover the US, I go into Canada and now I can look at Australia and Europe. If things continue to grow over the next few years then I will consider Japan and some other places.”
I was intrigued how Toby kept going,
fi nding new energy and inspiration: “In the past 17 years I have written 99 percent of my music. I write all year long, every day. If I don’t complete something that day I write ideas down. When songs are done I record them and then put them away. After a year I go in and pull those songs, listen to them and select the best for the new album. Some of it’s country, some is pop, rock, soul or R&B but I only record the stuff I think is really good. As a very young man doing albums in ‘93 and ‘94 I was mainly just writing country. Then through the years I have written all kinds of music. I think we became a headline act in, about 2000. The new fans certainly don’t know the old songs but they like to party. We certainly struck a nerve somewhere. It’s just a country boy playing American music. There could be stuff that would sound like Bob Seger or John Cougar Mellencamp and then there’s stuff like Willie Nelson or Merle Haggard. I don’t get far out of that.”
Toby Keith’s ‘Clancy’s Tavern’ album is
a cracker. I would go as far to say it is the best album to come my way during 2011. The best of the highlights include the fi ne country song ‘Trying To Fall In Love’ with the almost ultimate country song the Haggard styled ‘Just Another Sundown’. The ‘Red Solo Cup’ is simple and yet inspired writing and will set the audiences in party mood and yelling for more. Finally, the additional bonus tracks on the Deluxe Edition are four songs already made famous by other artists including ‘Truck Driving Man’ and ‘Memphis Tennessee’.
Clancy’s Tavern will be another in a
long line of successes. And somewhere, Toby Keith, undistracted, is writing another song.
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