Toby Keith Album: “Dream Walkin'”

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Personnel: Toby Keith, Sting (vocals); Larry Byrom (acoustic guitar); Brent Rowan, Michael Landau, Brent Mason, Dann Huff (electric guitar); Dan Dugmore, Paul Franklin (steel guitar); Clayton Ivey (piano); Steve Nathan (keyboards); Mike Brignardello (bass); Owen Hale (drums); Curtis Young, Curtis Wright, Dennis Wilson, Paul Thorn (background vocals). <p>Recorded at Loud Recording, Nashville, Tennessee. <p>DREAM WALKIN' was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. "I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying" was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration With Vocals. <p>Toby Keith has the kind of deep, assured but ever-so-slightly vulnerable country voice that sells records, platinum-style. This guy used to work in the oil fields of Oklahoma, as well as play a little semi-pro football,and that may explain the slightly rough edges that get wrapped around his tunes. Keith's music has a real from-the-gut quality. And just about every one of those tunes emerges as a strong, carefully-crafted country song. The title track is a catchy little honky-tonker of a tune, about a guy who wakes up to a lipstick-penned note reading "I had a good time." Potent, real-life images like that elevate this record from the "just-another-hat-act" category, and into the realm of must-haves for any country fan.

It is the real thing! Toby has a great knack for telling stories in his songs and it shows in "Dream Walkin'", "She Ran Away With A Rodeo Clown" (TK's sense of humor is apparent in this one and "I Don't Understand My Girlfriend") and "Jacky Don Tucker". Then he turns right around and pulls at your heart strings with "Yet" and "Strangers Again". Personal favorite, it's tough but "We Were In Love" wins out! Keep singing Toby, that baritone voice of yours rocks!

Toby Keith is one of the greatest country performers ever.I enjoy everything he sings.Dream Walkin' I think is one of the greatest songs ever recorded by anybody.I understand he makes a delicious biscuit.Keep up doing what your doing Toby ,one day you will be recognized as one of the best in country music.

As a country morning show personality, I play all kinds of music by all the country stars. After a while, they seem to just become background. I enjoy getting free CD's, too. This album, I bought. I gave my free copy away to a friend. "I'm So Happy" is worth the cost alone. I'm a single dad and can relate to the feelings in this great duet with Sting. Buy it for your collection. Toby's a superstar!

This is a top rate CD! His deep low voice works best on the ballads and this album's well filled with them. "You Don't Anymore", "Strangers Again", "Tired", and "Yet" are wonderful he sings those ballads quite effectively. Toby Keith also rocks well on "Jacky Don Tucker" with its tongue-in-cheek lyrics and lines like "He even cut a donut on the courthouse lawn". On the radio-friendly side, "We Were In Love" is a well-constructed tune with low verses and a growing chorus. Quite effective. Then we have "Dream Walkin'", a mid-tempo ditty that could be considered as the album's less effective song but Toby lifts it up above the average level with his passionate rendition. The duet with Sting, "I'm So Happy" is about two friends talkin' about one's divorce. Nice lyrics but Sting sounds like a fish out of water compared to Toby's voice. At the end of the album, we have a good swingin' tune, "I Don't Understand My Girlfriend", with funny lyrics about a guy trying his best to please his girlfriend but always ends up makin' a mistake. If you don't own anything by Toby Keith, this is a good place to start.