Loco Motive (album)

Loco Motive
Studio album by Cowboy Troy
Released	May 17, 2005 (2005-05-17)
Studio	Blackbird (Nashville, Tennessee) Sony ATV (Nashville, Tennessee) [1]
Genre	Country rap
Label	Raybaw/Warner Bros. Records Nashville
Producer	Cowboy Troy John Rich Paul Worley
Cowboy Troy chronology
Vintage (2003) Loco Motive (2005) Black in the Saddle (2007)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Country Standard Time	(favorable) [3]

Loco Motive is an album by American country rapper Cowboy Troy. Released in 2005 as his first album for Warner Bros. Records, it features the single "I Play Chicken with the Train", which rose to 48 on the Hot Country Songs chart in 2005. The other singles "If You Don't Wanna Love Me" and "My Last Yee Haw" were also released, although neither charted.

Track listing

1. "I Play Chicken with the Train" (Angie Aparo, John Rich, Troy Coleman) – 3:16
   • featuring Big & Rich
2. "Crick in My Neck" (Rich, Coleman) – 3:20
3. "Ain't Broke Yet" (Big Kenny, Rich, Coleman) – 4:09
4. featuring Big & Rich
5. "If You Don't Wanna Love Me" (Rich, Coleman) – 5:24
   • featuring Sarah Buxton
   • spoken word intro to "My Last Yee Haw": Larry the Cable Guy
6. "My Last Yee Haw" (Kenny, Rich, Coleman) – 3:27
   • featuring Big & Rich
7. "El Tejano" (Rich, Coleman) – 3:36
8. "Somebody's Smilin' on Me" (Brett Warren, Coleman) – 4:01
   • featuring Tim McGraw and Big Kenny
9. "Do Your Thang" (John Phillips, Coleman, Jill Kinsey) – 3:35
   • featuring Jill Kinsey
10. "Beast on the Mic" (Adam Shoenfeld, Coleman) – 3:26
    • featuring James Otto
11. "Whoop Whoop" (Vicky McGehee, Rich, Coleman) – 3:10
    • featuring Jon Nicholson
12. "Automatic" (Shoenfeld, Rich, Coleman) – 4:23
    • featuring ATOM
13. "Wrap Around the World" (Rich, Coleman) – 3:50
    • featuring Big & Rich

Personnel

• Paul Allen - electric guitar (except 7 and 11), acoustic guitar (7, 11)
• ATOM - guest vocals (11)
• Brian Barnett - drums (all tracks), percussion (2, 3, 7, 8, 10, 11)
• Big & Rich - guest vocals (1, 3, 5)
• Big Kenny - background vocals (2, 8, 12), guest vocals (7)
• Joan Bush - background vocals (6)
• Sarah Buxton - guest vocals (4)
• Dan Dugmore - lap steel guitar (6), Dobro (8, 10)
• Larry Franklin - fiddle (1, 3)
• Mike Johnson - pedal steel guitar (2, 4, 5, 7, 11, 12)
• Jill Kinsey - guest vocals (8)
• Randy Kohrs - Dobro (2, 9, 11)
• Larry the Cable Guy - "words of encouragement" (4)
• Liana Manis - background vocals (4)
• Tim McGraw - guest vocals (7)
• Jon Nicholson - guest vocals (10), background vocals (12)
• James Otto - guest vocals (9)
• James Pennebaker - electric guitar (1, 4, 8)
• Ethan Pilzer - bass guitar (all tracks)
• John Rich - acoustic guitar (1, 3, 4, 8, 9, 12), background vocals (2, 6, 8, 9, 12)
• Michael Rojas - piano (2-7, 9-12) synthesizer (3, 4, 9, 11), Farfisa (5), Hammond B-3 organ (7, 12)
• Adam Shoenfeld - electric guitar (all tracks)
• Paul Worley - background vocals (6)
• Jonathan Yudkin - banjo (1, 2, 12), fiddle (2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12), strings (4, 7, 10), mandolin (12)

Technical

• Matt Beale - mastering assistant
• Paige Connors - production coordination
• Cowboy Troy - producer
• Adam Engelhardt - recording assistant
• Paul Hart - recording, recording assistant
• Andrew Mendelson - mastering
• Bartley Pursley - recording, mixing
• Lowell Reynolds - recording assistant, mixing assistant
• John Rich - producer
• David Robinson - recording assistant
• Clarke Schleicher - recording
• Paul Worley - producer
• Jonathan Yudkin - string arrangement (4, 7, 10)

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (2005) Peak position US Billboard 200 [4] 15 US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [5] 2 US Top Rap Albums (Billboard) [6] 13

Year-end charts Chart (2005) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard) [7] 45

References

1. "Loco Motive". AllMusic .
2. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Loco Motive review". Allmusic. Retrieved January 5, 2010.
3. Loy, Robert. "Loco Motive review". Country Standard Time. Retrieved January 5, 2010.
4. "Cowboy Troy Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved November 12, 2020.
5. "Cowboy Troy Chart History (Top Country Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 12, 2020.
6. "Cowboy Troy Chart History (Top Rap Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved November 12, 2020.
7. "Top Country Albums – Year-End 2005". Billboard. Retrieved November 12, 2020.