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Genre: Country
Release Date: 02/08/2005

The Totally Country series, like its pop-oriented NOW counterpart, rises and falls on whether the time it chronicles was any good for hit singles. Sometimes, there's only a handful of engaging tunes, other times well over half of the featured tracks are first-rate. Totally Country, Vol. 4 fits into the latter category, filled with songs that are terribly entertaining long after they've been played to death on the radio. While some of these songs are merely enjoyable, some qualify as instant classics. In particular, there's Toby Keith's warm, funny honky tonk anthem "I Love This Bar," Gretchen Wilson's kicking "Redneck Woman," Big & Rich's gonzo "Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)," and a pair of beach-ready tunes in Kenny Chesney's "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems" and Blake Shelton's "Some Beach." These are songs that define what modern country is, and when combined with first-rate entries from Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley, John Michael Montgomery, George Strait, and Montgomery Gentry -- and not to mention solid tunes from Clay Walker, Sara Evans, los Lonely Boys, and Buddy Jewell -- this is easily the best Totally Country yet. If you want to know what mainstream country sounded like in the middle of the 2000s, turn here.

~Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide

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Clint Black - Producer
George Strait - Producer
Bobby Braddock - Producer
Toby Keith - Producer
Tony Brown - Producer
Buddy Cannon - Producer
Blake Chancey - Producer
Kenny Chesney - Producer
Byron Gallimore - Producer
Dann Huff - Producer
John Michael Montgomery - Producer
John Porter - Producer
Brent Rowan - Producer
Joe Scaife - Producer
Keith Stegall - Producer
James Stroud - Producer
Norro Wilson - Producer
Paul Worley - Producer
Mark Wright - Producer
Clay Walker - Producer
Gary Allan - Producer
Erwin Gorostiza - Art Direction
Sara Evans - Producer
Chris Woehrle - Design
Alan Fletcher - Executive Producer
Big Kenny - Producer
Frank Rogers - Producer
Jimmy Ritchey - Producer
Paul Barnabee - Executive Producer
John "Woog" Johnson - Compilation Producer
Joy Gilbert Monfried - Project Director
John Rich - Producer
John Rich - Associate Producer

Man with a Memory
    Joe Nichols / CD / 2002
Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors
    Tim McGraw / CD / 2002
Honkytonk University
    Toby Keith / CD / 2005
Time Well Wasted
    Brad Paisley / CD / 2005
Anywhere But Here
    Chris Cagle / CD / 2005
The Road to Here
    Little Big Town / CD / 2005
The Road and the Radio
    Kenny Chesney / CD / 2005
All Country Dance
    Various Artists / CD / 2007

Release Date: 02/08/2005
Genre: ctry