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- Artist: Toby Keith
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- Release Date: November 02, 1999
- Total Time: 40:59
- Type: Lyrics are included with the album
- Genre: Country
Review
Toby Keith jumped from Mercury to DreamWorks after his fourth album, Dream Walkin' and How Do You Like Me Now?!, his first effort for his new album, finds the singer/songwriter revived and refreshed, shaking loose some of the sleepiness of his two albums for Mercury. Not that he's given up slower tunes -- he still has a keen ear for sensitive love songs and heartbreak sagas, manifesting in both the light, sweet "Heart to Heart (Stelen's Song)" and power ballads like "When Love Fades" -- but there is a bit of a showy defiance here, best heard on the hit title track, "Die with Your Boots On" and the rocking "Country Comes to Town." When taken together, these two sides present the new Toby Keith persona: the big, bad outlaw who hides a big, soft heart. He would further develop and refine this persona in a series of excellent albums in the 2000s, but this is where he debuted it and if, in retrospect, How Do You Like Me Now?! is a little bit ragged compared to what came later -- the swagger isn't as gritty, the ballads a little bit syrupy -- it nevertheless is a compelling, successful beginning of the second stage of Keith's career, built upon some very fine songs. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music GuideTracks
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| How Do You Like Me Now? | Toby Keith | (3:29) | |
| When Love Fades (Lyrics) | Toby Keith, |
Toby Keith | (3:07) |
| Blue Bedroom (Lyrics) | Toby Keith, |
Toby Keith | (3:30) |
| New Orleans (Lyrics) | Toby Keith | (4:13) | |
| Country Comes to Town (Lyrics) | Toby Keith | Toby Keith | (3:39) |
| Heart to Heart (Stelen's Song) | Toby Keith | Toby Keith | (3:34) |
| She Only Gets That way With Me (Lyrics) | Toby Keith | (2:30) | |
| Die with Your Boots On (Lyrics) | Toby Keith, |
Toby Keith | (3:07) |
| You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This (Lyrics) | Toby Keith | Toby Keith | (3:43) |
| Hold You, Kiss You, Love You (Lyrics) | Byron Hill | Toby Keith | (3:16) |
| Do I Know You (Bottom of My Heart) | Toby Keith | Toby Keith | (3:38) |
| I Know a Wall When I See One (Lyrics) | Toby Keith | (3:13) |
