''Drinks After Work'' is the seventeenth studio album by American
country music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
artist
Toby Keith
Toby Keith Covel (born July 8, 1961), known professionally as Toby Keith, is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer. He released his first four studio albums—1993's '' Toby Keith'', 1994's '' Boomtown'', 19 ...
. It was released on October 29, 2013 by
Show Dog-Universal Music
Show Dog Nashville is an American independent record label specializing in country music artists. It was founded in 2005 by singer Toby Keith. It was later merged with Universal South Records into Show Dog-Universal Music in December 2009 until ...
. Keith wrote or co-wrote nine of the album's new tracks. A deluxe edition was also released with three bonus tracks.
Commercial performance
In its first week of release, the album debuted at number 7 on the
''Billboard'' 200, selling 35,000 copies. As of September 2015, the album has sold 140,000 copies in the U.S.
Track listing
Personnel
Adapted from liner notes.
*Greg Barnhill - background vocals (tracks 1, 4-12)
*Pat Bergeson -
harmonica (tracks 1, 6, 8)
*Perry Coleman - background vocals (track 3)
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J.T. Corenflos
Jerry Troy "J. T." Corenflos (November 6, 1963 – October 24, 2020), was an American session musician and country guitarist, who played on an estimated 75 Number One hit records as well as hundreds of other recordings and hits. He received 14 n ...
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electric guitar
An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar (however combinations of the two - a semi-acoustic guitar and an electric acoustic gu ...
(tracks 2, 7)
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Chad Cromwell
Chad Cromwell (born June 14, 1957) is an American rock drummer whose music career has spanned more than 30 years. He is the founding member of a band called Fortunate Sons, which released a self-titled album in 2004.
Cromwell has worked with m ...
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drums
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Eric Darken -
percussion
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,
vibraphone
The vibraphone is a percussion instrument in the metallophone family. It consists of tuned metal bars and is typically played by using mallets to strike the bars. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a ''vibraphonist,'' ''vibraharpist ...
(track 2)
*Kevin "Swine" Grantt -
bass guitar
The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...
(track 4)
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Kenny Greenberg
Kenneth S. "Kenny" Greenberg is an American guitarist, songwriter, producer, and session musician. He is known for bringing a rock-and-roll sensibility to Nashville recording sessions.
Biography
Greenberg was born in Cleveland, Ohio but attend ...
- electric guitar
*Rob Hajacos -
fiddle (tracks 7, 9, 11, 12)
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Aubrey Haynie - fiddle (tracks 6, 8)
*Natalie Hemby - background vocals (track 2)
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Rob Ickes -
dobro (tracks 6, 8)
*Alex Jarvis - programming (track 2)
*Charlie Judge -
cello
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,
Hammond B-3 organ
The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated ...
,
jews harp,
marimba
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,
piano
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...
,
synthesizer,
Wurlitzer
The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to as simply Wurlitzer, is an American company started in Cincinnati in 1853 by German immigrant (Franz) Rudolph Wurlitzer. The company initially imported stringed, woodwind and brass instruments ...
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Toby Keith
Toby Keith Covel (born July 8, 1961), known professionally as Toby Keith, is an American country music singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer. He released his first four studio albums—1993's '' Toby Keith'', 1994's '' Boomtown'', 19 ...
- lead vocals, background vocals (track 2)
*Mills Logan - programming (track 1)
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Brent Mason
Brent Mason (born July 13, 1959) is an American, Nashville, Tennessee-based recording studio guitarist and songwriter, performing primarily country music. Guitar World Magazine listed him as one of the "Top Ten Session Guitarists of All Time". ...
- electric guitar (tracks 3, 4, 10-12)
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Steve Nathan
Steven Jay Nathan is an American keyboardist. He is known for his session work in Muscle Shoals and Nashville studios.
Biography
Nathan was born and raised in Buffalo, New York. In 1977, Nathan moved to Muscle Shoals, Alabama. After touring w ...
- Hammond B-3 organ (track 4)
*Russ Pahl - electric guitar (track 4),
steel guitar (tracks 1-3, 5, 9, 11, 12)
*Danny Rader -
acoustic guitar (tracks 2, 5, 6),
mandolin (tracks 2, 6)
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Michael Rhodes - bass guitar (tracks 1, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10)
*David Santos - bass guitar (tracks 7, 9, 11, 12)
*Natalie Scott - background vocals (track 2)
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Jimmie Lee Sloas
Jimmie Lee Sloas is an American session musician, producer, and songwriter, who plays bass guitar.
History
Jimmie Lee Sloas, born in Ashland, Kentucky, grew up in Fairborn, Ohio and Isonville, Kentucky. His father, Dave, was a member of the po ...
- bass guitar (track 2)
*Bobby Terry - acoustic guitar (tracks 7, 9, 11, 12)
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Ilya Toshinsky
Bering Strait was a Russian country music band, whose style was sometimes called "redgrass". In 2003, the band was nominated for a Grammy Award and appeared on the TV show ''60 Minutes''. The group disbanded in 2006. The lineup on their first alb ...
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banjo (track 1), acoustic guitar (tracks 1, 3, 6, 8, 10), mandolin (track 3)
Chart performance
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
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2013 albums
Toby Keith albums
Show Dog-Universal Music albums
Albums produced by Toby Keith