Bullets in the Gun
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| Studio album by Toby Keith | ||||
| Released | October 5, 2010 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 36:10 | |||
| Label | Show Dog-Universal Music | |||
| Producer | Kenny Greenberg Toby Keith Mills Logan |
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| Metacritic | (76/100) |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   |
| Billboard | (positive) |
| The Boston Globe | (positive) |
| Country Weekly |  |
| Entertainment Weekly | B |
| Los Angeles Times | |
| The New York Times | (mixed) |
| Roughstock | (favorable) |
| The Washington Post | (positive) |
Bullets in the Gun is the fourteenth studio album from American country artist Toby Keith. It was released in the United States on October 5, 2010 through Show Dog-Universal Music. The album produced the singles "Trailerhood" (#19), the title track (#12), and "Somewhere Else" (#12), making it the first studio album of Keith's career not to produce a Top Ten hit.
In an interview with Billboard, Keith talked about the recording for Bullets in the Gun, saying ""I'm in a great place right now, I probably wrote 40 or 50 songs in the last year and the songs are getting more and more happy. I did some movies, too, but now I'm just kicking back."
Upon its release, Bullets in the Gun received generally positive reviews from most music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 76, based on 6 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".
Bill Friskics-Warren of The Washington Post complimented the tracks on the release, saying "There isn't a weak track on the record, and most of the songs [...] are pretty terrific".Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic gave the album 4½ out of 5 stars and called it "a lean, tight record", stating "Bullets in the Gun winds up being the Toby Keith album with the lightest touch since 2006’s White Trash with Money." Matt Bjorke with Roughstock commented on the album, saying "Bullets in the Gun is an interesting album and it feels like a joyful mixture of songs about different stages of relationships and life" and called it "Keith’s best album of at least the last five years". Gary Graff with Billboard Magazine gave a favorable review of the album, saying "It's full of shoot-from-the- hip cleverness".
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