Toby Keith’s new album, 35 mph Town, arrives in stores and online Friday, October 9th. The Oklahoma native, who was just inducted into New York’s prestigious Songwriters Hall of Fame, co-wrote nine of the 10 songs on the new collection, including his new single “Beautiful Stranger.” The album also features the song “Drunk Americans,” a “sly, social commentary” song, which was written by Brandy Clark, Bob DiPiero and Shane McAnally.
The legendary Jimmy Buffett is featured on the song “Sailboat for Sale,” while Mr. Margaritaville’s Coral Reefer Band is backing Toby on “Rum is the Reason.”
“Beautiful Stranger” will be released to country radio next week.
Audio / Toby Keith talks about what he hopes fans go away with when they pick up or download a copy of his new album.
DownloadToby Keith (what fans can expect) OC: …to his guns. :36
“I hope they go away and go, ‘You know what? He’s not converting with what type of music’s being played on the radio. He’s not converting.’ I said this before – there’s two things I’d never do and that’s mistreat an opening act, because we were mistreated, and I said, I’ll never do that, and I heard the guys whining, saying the youth like, twenty years ago when I was coming in, there were people that were saying my generation wasn’t country enough, and I was like, ‘Man I never want to be that guy.’ So, I don’t care what the kids are doing. It doesn’t make anything different. But, I hope they look at this album and go, ‘Same ol’, same ol’. He’s sticking to his guns.’”
