Toby Keith Goes ‘Incognito’ on Deluxe Version of New Album

Toby Keith has announced the release of four new live tracks with the deluxe edition of his new album, 'Clancy's Tavern,' set for release on Oct. 24.

The live songs are all covers of classics, including Waylon Jennings' 'High Time (You Quit Your Low Down Ways),' Buck Owens' 'Truck Drivin' Man,' Three Dog Night's 'Shambala' and Chuck Berry's 'Memphis.' The tracks were recorded during Toby's secret show at the Fillmore in New York City, with his band of studio musicians who go by the alias 'Incognito Bandito.' Toby fans are familiar with his side-project from the live Incognito Bandito tracks included on his last album, the deluxe version of 'Bullets in the Gun,' along with the secret shows they do together once in a blue moon.

"I was in the studio doing work on my albums, and the session players are just hoppin' all year long," Toby explains to The Boot of the inception of Incognito Bandito. "They're the greatest players on the planet, and I heard one of them talking about being out with Delbert McClinton. Somebody else goes out with Mark Knopfler when he's touring. I asked them, 'Do you ever just want to go out to a bar and do cover songs?' And they said, 'All the time!'

"So I said, 'What if we formed a band that you weren't side guys in it? We're just a group, and we play blues and blues country covers -- old favorite roadhouse cover songs, the songs we grew up playing and loving," he continues. "We'll just show up at a bar in New York City and freak people out, and get to do what we want to do at a bar for a while instead of playing amphitheaters and arenas?' And they said, 'We'd love it!'"

Toby came up with the name Incognito Bandito, along with a couple of ground rules for the band's live set-lists. "We all want to play blues and country blues, so that's the first qualification," explains the music mogul. "The second one is that we don't play something you'd go in a bar and hear the local band cover. We do something you'd hear on a classic country blues or country oldies station."

'Clancy's Tavern' has already made waves with its hit first single, 'Made in America.' Watch the video below.