Unleashed (Toby Keith album)

Unleashed
Studio album by Toby Keith
Released	August 6, 2002
Genre	Country
Length	43:40
Label	DreamWorks
Producer	James Stroud Toby Keith
Toby Keith chronology
Pull My Chain (2001) Unleashed (2002) 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Toby Keith (2003)
Singles from Unleashed
"Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)" Released: May 27, 2002 "Who's Your Daddy?" Released: August 19, 2002 "Rock You Baby" Released: January 6, 2003 "Beer For My Horses" Released: April 7, 2003

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	(63/100) [1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Billboard	(favorable) [3]
Blender	[1]
Robert Christgau	B/E[4]
E! Online	C [1]
Entertainment Weekly	C+ [5]
PopMatters	[1][6]
Q	[1]
Rolling Stone	[7]
The Village Voice	(positive) [8]

Unleashed is the seventh studio album by American country music artist Toby Keith. It was released on August 6, 2002 by DreamWorks Records. The album produced four hit singles on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs charts with "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)", "Who's Your Daddy", "Rock You Baby", and "Beer for My Horses" (a duet with Willie Nelson). "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)", "Who's Your Daddy", and "Beer for My Horses" all reached number one while "Rock You Baby" peaked at number 13. The album was Keith's first to reach number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 and was 4× Platinum by the RIAA for sales of four million copies in the United States.

Upon reaching number one, "Beer for My Horses" was Keith's longest-lasting number one single, having spent six weeks at the top of the charts. The song also made Nelson the oldest male country singer to reach the top of the country charts at the time.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Toby Keith and Scotty Emerick unless noted otherwise.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)"	Keith	3:15
2.	"Who's Your Daddy?"	Keith	3:57
3.	"Good to Go to Mexico"	Keith Chuck Cannon	2:59
4.	"It's All Good"		3:17
5.	"Beer for My Horses" (featuring Willie Nelson)		3:30
6.	"Losing My Touch"		3:14
7.	"Huckleberry"	Keith Cannon	3:28
8.	"It Works for Me"		3:03
9.	"Ain't It Just Like You"		3:59
10.	"Rock You Baby"		4:01
11.	"Rodeo Moon"	Keith Chris LeDoux	3:53
12.	"That's Not How It Is"		3:41
13.	"Live Introduction by Toby Keith of 'Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)'"		1:29
Total length:			43:40

• Some editions of the CD do not include Track 13

Personnel

• Chris Collins - acoustic guitar, mandolin
• Scotty Emerick - acoustic guitar, background vocals
• Kim Fleming - background vocals
• Shannon Forrest - drums
• Paul Franklin - steel guitar
• Vicki Hampton - background vocals
• Mike Haynes - trumpet
• Wes Hightower - background vocals
• Clayton Ivey - keyboards, piano
• Toby Keith - lead vocals
• Jerry McPherson - electric guitar
• Liana Manis - background vocals
• Brent Mason - electric guitar
• Steve Nathan - keyboards, piano
• Willie Nelson - duet vocals on "Beer for My Horses"
• Michael Rhodes - bass guitar
• John "JR" Robinson - drums
• John Wesley Ryles - background vocals
• Michael Thompson - electric guitar
• Biff Watson - acoustic guitar
• Lari White - background vocals
• Curtis Young - background vocals

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2002) Peak position US Billboard 200[9] 1 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[10] 1

Year-end charts Chart (2002) Position Canadian Country Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)[11] 14 US Billboard 200[12] 39 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[13] 7 Chart (2003) Position US Billboard 200[14] 20 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[15] 4 Chart (2004) Position US Billboard 200[16] 98 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[17] 17

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[18]	Platinum	100,000^^
United States (RIAA)[19]	4× Platinum	4,000,000^^
^^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

1. "Unleashed by Toby Keith".
2. Allmusic review
3. "Billboard review". Archived from the original on August 6, 2002. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
4. Christgau, Robert (April 22, 2003). "Not Hop, Stomp". The Village Voice. New York. Archived from the original on December 20, 2013. Retrieved February 9, 2013.
5. "Unleashed". Archived from the original on October 2, 2012.
6. "Toby Keith: Unleashed". March 2, 2003.
7. "Rolling Stone review". Archived from the original on December 1, 2007. Retrieved August 7, 2007.
8. "The Village Voice review". Archived from the original on April 12, 2013.
9. "Toby Keith Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
10. "Toby Keith Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
11. "Top 100 country albums of 2002 in Canada". Jam!. Archived from the original on December 4, 2003. Retrieved March 28, 2022.
12. "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2002". Billboard. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
13. "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2002". Billboard. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
14. "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2003". Billboard. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
15. "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2003". Billboard. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
16. "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 2004". Billboard. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
17. "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2004". Billboard. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
18. "Canadian album certifications – Toby Keith – Unleashed". Music Canada. Retrieved April 30, 2025.
19. "American album certifications – Toby Keith – Unleashed". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved April 30, 2025.

External links

• Unleashed at Metacritic