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| Various Artists |
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| Lonestar: You’re Like Comin’ Home; Montgomery Gentry: You Do Your Thing; Miranda Lambert: Kerosene; plus Blake Shelton, Big & Rich, Dierks Bentley, others. |
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| 1 Kerosene - Lambert, Miranda |
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| 2 Homewrecker - Wilson, Gretchen |
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| 3 How Am I Doin' - Bentley, Dierks |
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| 4 Comin' to Your City - Big & Rich |
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| 5 Suds in the Bucket - Evans, Sara |
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| 6 Help Somebody - Van Zant |
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| 7 I Play Chicken with the Train - Big & Rich |
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| 8 You Do Your Thing - Montgomery Gentry |
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| 9 Redneck Yacht Club - Morgan, Craig |
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| 10 XXL - Anderson, Keith [Country] |
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| 11 My Kind of Music - Scott, Ray [2] |
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| 12 You're Like Comin' Home - Lonestar |
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| 13 Goodbye Time - Shelton, Blake |
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| 14 Hicktown - Aldean, Jason |
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| 15 God's Will - McBride, Martina |
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| 16 If Heaven - Griggs, Andy |
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| 17 It's Getting Better All the Time - Brooks & Dunn |
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Album Review
The fifth installment of the ongoing "Totally Country" series was released the first week of February 2006, but it shouldn't be thought of as a time capsule of the biggest country hits of the previous year. Sure, there are some big hits from 2005 here -- Miranda Lambert's great "Kerosene," Big & Rich's silly "Comin' To Your City," and Lonestar's sentimental "You'Re Like Comin' Home" -- but there are more songs from 2004 than 2005, and there's a fair share of cuts from 2003, too. So, don't think of this as a yearbook, but rather as a sampler of what was played on contemporary country radio in the mid-2000s. On that level, "Totally Country, Vol. 5" is representative, even if it's a little uneven. There's a strong representation of Big & Rich, as performers and producers, for instance, and there are also several excellent neo-traditional cuts from the likes of Lambert, Dierks Bentley ("How Am I Doin'"), and Ray Scott ("My Kind Of Music"). There's also some pleasant, occasionally forgettable fodder from the Music City machine, and there a couple of novelties (Cowboy Troy's hick-hop "Cowboy Troy" and Keith Anderson's "Xxl") that are either fun or irritating, depending on your point of view. In other words, it's a lot like listening to the radio -- although it actually has more good songs on average than the radio -- and for casual contemporary country fans looking for a sampler of hits, this will suit their needs just fine. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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