ARTIST: Toby Keith
TITLE: White Trash With Money
LABEL: Show Dog Nashville
GENRE: Country
BITRATE: 212kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 41min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-04-11
RIP DATE: 2006-04-07

Track List

01. Get Drunk And Be Somebody       2:58
02. A Little Too Late               4:06
03. Can't Buy You Money             3:29
04. Crash Here Tonight              3:00
05. Grain Of Salt                   3:11
06. I Ain't Already There           3:40
07. Note To Self                    3:38
08. Too Far This Time               3:23
09. Ain't No Right Way              3:53
10. Brand New Bow (Bus Songs        3:25
Session #2)
11. Hell No (Bus Songs Session #2)  3:17
12. Runnin' Block (Bus Songs        3:58
Session #2)

Release Notes:

“White Trash With Money,” due April 11, is the first album on Keith’s own label,
Show Dog Nashville, following his well-publicized split with DreamWorks Records
last year. It also represents a parting from his longtime producer, James Stroud,
the one-time head of DreamWorks’ Nashville division who is now co-chairman of
Universal Music Group Nashville. (Show Dog has a distribution deal with Universal
Music & Video Distribution.)

Keith says his split from Stroud was about evolution, not personal friction.
“James made every record ... that established my career,” he says, adding that
he’s open to the possibility of working with Stroud again.

White, a songwriter/recording artist who is currently starring on Broadway in
the musical “Ring of Fire,” is the wife of Keith’s longtime songwriting partner,
Chuck Cannon.

After hearing her self-produced 2005 release, “Green Eyed Soul,” which Keith
calls “such an impressive record,” and some production projects White had done
with Billy Dean, Cannon and Keith’s daughter, he decided to try out a few demos
with her in her Nashville-area studio, the Holler.

Two days and six songs into it the pair was clicking so well that it became
obvious White would produce the entire album with Keith.

White — who may or may not be pleased to hear Keith say, “I never one time looked
at her as being a woman” — created a sound that she calls “a little more raw,
less slick and earthier” than Keith’s previous work.

“Obviously Toby didn’t need [to do] anything different,” White says. “He was
doing just fine with a string of hit records. But if any artist is going to have
the kind of longevity they want, there has to be some evolution.”

For the project, White added an unexpected touch by tracking down noted
Argentine string arranger George DelBarrio, who has worked with artists including
Michael Jackson; Earth, Wind & Fire and Jeffrey Osborne). DelBarrio’s work can be
heard on the planned second single, “A Little Too Late,” and two other songs.

White also put horns on some of the tracks, including first single “Get Drunk and
Be Somebody.” She even had session drummer Shannon Forrest play cardboard boxes
on a few others.

She also encouraged Keith to stretch out a bit as a singer. “Toby typically comes
in and sings the song three times,” she says. But on this project there were
songs where White urged Keith to try additional takes with different melodies.
“He was really into it. I think he trusted me because I am a singer,” White says.

For several years Keith has enjoyed a well-earned place as one of country radio’s
top-tier artists.

His most recent album, “Honkytonk University,” released in June 2005 by
DreamWorks Nashville, has sold 1.5 million copies, according to Nielsen
SoundScan.

Thirteen years into his career, and with 10 platinum or multiplatinum albums and
15 No. 1 singles to his credit, Keith has little left to prove. But just try
telling him that.