Although Toby Keith is one of America's most popular and highest-paid country artists, he prefers to mirror the people for whom social success is not reserved. The countless plodders who work very hard for a few cents and then spend them in the local pub: those are the people who put Keith on a pedestal in songs like Get Drunk And Be Somebody, and it is these simple Americans who en masse the CDs
… of Purchase Toby Keith. Musically his songs are rammed together, invariably based on a solid honky tonk sound, but alternately colored with influences from pop (A Little Too Late), blues (Can't Buy You Money) and rock (Grain Of Salt). Remarkably, the man who was still full of patriotic feelings at the time of Shock 'n Y'all (2003), White Trash With Money is far from political in nature. In doing so, he expresses again, without speaking, the feelings of the average American. (MS)more