By Stone Martindale Jun 9, 2007, 20:27 GMT
Toby Keith's new album, "Big Dog Daddy," arrives on June 12, but he has another present planned for fans - he has recorded a second Christmas album, which he plans to release in the fourth quarter on his Show Dog Nashville label.
Toby Keith - © Jason Perlman / Photorazzi
Billboard.com reports Keith's new, untitled album, will be a two-CD set of holiday classics.
"I did 10 Christian and 10 Santa Claus songs," Keith said to Billboard. "One disc has 'White Christmas' and 'Frosty the Snowman'-kind of songs. The other has very Christian-type songs like 'Little Drummer Boy' and 'Silent Night."'
"I've been meaning to do another (Christmas album) for 10 years," he said. "I'm not an extremely religious guy, but I am a Christian, and I do know what the meaning of Christmas is. It's time for me to do one."
Keith used mostly acoustic instruments. "I called it the bluegrass band -- dobro, fiddle, mandolin, piano, acoustic bass and brushes on the drums. That became a new part of me. I like to hear myself working in that atmosphere and that environment."
Keith told Billboard his follow-up film project to last year's "Broken Bridges" is that he is writing the screenplay, which he said is "nothing like the video. That was very serious; (the movie) is a little more of a 'Smokey and the Bandit'-type of thing, more of a situational comedy, I guess."
Billboard reports that Keith said "he hopes to have something ready to shoot in early 2008 and have the film out by the middle of the year."
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