Boomtown (album)
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Boomtown is the title of the second studio album released by American country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 singer Toby Keith
Toby Keith
Toby Keith Covel , best known as Toby Keith, is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer and actor. Keith released his first four studio albums — 1993's Toby Keith, 1994's Boomtown, 1996's Blue Moon and 1997's Dream Walkin, plus a Greatest Hits package for various divisions of...

. Released in 1994 on Polydor Records
Polydor Records
Polydor is a record label owned by Universal Music Group, headquartered in the United Kingdom.-Beginnings:Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Its name was first used as an export label in 1924, the British and German branches of the Gramophone...

, the album was certified platinum by the RIAA for U.S. sales of one million copies. Overall, this album produced four hit singles for Keith on the Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...

 charts between 1994 and 1995: "Who's That Man" (#1), "Upstairs Downtown" (#10), "You Ain't Much Fun" (#2) and "Big Ol' Truck" (#15).

Track listing

  1. "Who's That Man
    Who's That Man
    "Who's That Man" is the title of a song written and recorded by American country music singer Toby Keith. It was released in July 1994 as the lead-off single to his second studio album, Boomtown, the song was Keith's second Number One on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks ...

    " (Toby Keith) - 4:54
  2. "Big Ol' Truck
    Big Ol' Truck
    "Big Ol' Truck" is the title of a song written and recorded by country music artist Toby Keith. It was released in July 1995 as the fourth and final single from his 1994 album Boomtown. It peaked at #15 on the U.S...

    " (Keith) - 3:42
  3. "Victoria's Secret" (Keith, Wayne Perry) - 3:42
  4. "No Honor Among Thieves" (Nathan Crow, David Wills
    David Wills (singer)
    David Wills is an American country music singer-songwriter. Wills released three studio albums and charted more than twenty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart between 1975 and 1988...

    ) - 3:11
  5. "Upstairs Downtown
    Upstairs Downtown
    "Upstairs Downtown" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Toby Keith. It was released in November 1994 as the second single from his album Boomtown...

    " (Keith, Carl Goff Jr.) - 4:26
  6. "You Ain't Much Fun
    You Ain't Much Fun
    "You Ain't Much Fun" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music singer Toby Keith that peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart...

    " (Keith, Goff Jr.) - 2:26
  7. "In Other Words" (Tony Haselden, Tim Mensy
    Tim Mensy
    Timmie Menzies is an American country music artist known as Tim Mensy. Initially, he was a member of the band Bandana, in which he charted several singles on the Hot Country Songs charts in the 1980s...

    ) - 3:34
  8. "Woman Behind the Man" (Keith, Perry) - 3:09
  9. "Life Was a Play (The World a Stage)" (Johnny McCollum, Pal Rakes, Nelson Larkin) - 3:29
  10. "Boomtown" (Keith) - 3:44

Musicians

  • Sonny Garrish - steel guitar
    Steel guitar
    Steel guitar is a type of guitar or the method of playing the instrument. Developed in Hawaii in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a steel guitar is usually positioned horizontally; strings are plucked with one hand, while the other hand changes the pitch of one or more strings with the use...

    , dobro
    Dobro
    Dobro is a registered trademark, now owned by Gibson Guitar Corporation and used for a particular design of resonator guitar.The name has a long and involved history, interwoven with that of the resonator guitar...

  • Tim Gonzales - harmonica
    Harmonica
    The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...

  • Owen Hale - drums
  • Clayton Ivey - keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

  • Gary Lunn - bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Danny Parks - electric guitar
    Electric guitar
    An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...

  • Don Potter
    Don Potter (musician)
    Don Potter is an American musician and producer in Nashville, Tennessee. A longstanding producer for Wynonna Judd, he has become known as "the man who created the Judds' sound".-Musical career:...

     - acoustic guitar
    Acoustic guitar
    An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...

  • Ron "Snake" Reynolds - percussion, engineer, mixing
  • Milton Sledge - drums
  • Reggie Young
    Reggie Young
    Reggie Young was lead guitarist in the American Sound Studios Band , and is a leading session musician. He played on various recordings with artists such as Elvis Presley, B.J. Thomas, John Prine, Dusty Springfield, J.J...

    - electric guitar
  • Hank Williams - mastering

Chart performance

Chart (1994) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 8
U.S. Billboard 200 46
Canadian RPM Country Albums 5
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