<p>For <strong><a href="tobykeith.musiccitynetworks.com/">Toby Keith</a></strong>, making <strong>albums </strong>is a lot like raising horses, <a href="www.columbian.com/"><em>The Columbian</em></a> of Vancouver, Wash., reports. He&#8217;s built a track record of coming up with a few singles on each <strong>album</strong> that tend to race up the charts like a thoroughbred charging to the finish line.<img src="http://img.gactv.com/GAC/2006/05/18/tobykeith4_d.jpg" title="Image courtesy of Big Dog Records" alt="Image courtesy of Big Dog Records" align="left" height="192" hspace="6" vspace="6" width="140" />&#8220;You can go to Kingsland, Ky., go to the Kingsland sale, and you can handpick the top yearlings in the sale that really look athletic,&#8221; <strong>Toby </strong>says. And if you buy 10 really nice athletic horses, one or two or three of them are really going to run good.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Music </strong>works the same way, <strong>Toby </strong>says. &#8220;Whatever I wrote last year is what I <strong>record</strong>, and I have to live with that,&#8221; he says. &#8220;I don&#8217;t really go in thinking I&#8217;m going to stretch myself this way or I&#8217;ve got this kind of theme going or I want to use acoustics all the way through. I just look at each song and say, &#8216;Here&#8217;s what instrumentation I want on this song,&#8217; and I bring the guys in and we put the magic dust on it.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Toby</strong>&#8216;s new CD, <em><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?ie=UTF8&;keywords=toby%20keith%20big%20dog%20daddy&;tag=drunkenhill05-20&;index=music&;linkCode=ur2&;camp=1789&;creative=9325">Big Dog Daddy</a></strong><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=drunkenhill05-20&;l=ur2&;o=1" style="border: medium none ! important; margin: 0px ! important" border="0" height="1" width="1" />,</em> is continuing the trend, with the first single, &#8220;<strong>High Maintenance Woman</strong>&#8221; reaching the Top 10. A second single, &#8220;<strong>Love Me If You Can</strong>,&#8221; has just cracked the Top 20 on the <strong>country singles chart</strong> and is looking like it&#8217;s in for a nice run.</p>
<p>~Courtesy of <a href="http://www.gactv.com">GAC.com </a>Country Music Photo Gallery</p>