Country superstar Toby Keith says she studied at 'honkytonk university', or 'the school of life' for country artists. It also became the title of his thirteenth album. This time with a lot less political comments than the predecessor Shock'n Y'All (2003), apart from a single reference to 'my boys in Afghanistan and Baghdad City'. The man who broke through with the September 11 inspired song Courtesy
… Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American) at Honkytonk University sticks to well-known subjects such as love and broken hearts. In twelve alternating songs many relationships are ended, household effects are packed and moved and quite a few tears are shed. The fact that Keith manages to bring all of this in a still reasonably optimistic way - with help from Merle Haggard in one song - makes him a 'red, white and blue graduate of Honkytonk U'. (IV)more
