Niño Loco

Personnel: Jerry McPherson, Kenny Greenberg (electric guitar); Paul Franklin (pedal steel guitar); Aubrey Haynie (mandolin, fiddle); Tim Akers (piano, keyboards); Michael Rhodes (bass instrument); Chad Cromwell (drums); Perry Coleman (background vocals).
Audio Mixer: Mills Logan.
Produced by his good friend Toby Keith, EL NINO LOCO is the first all-song album from Rodney Carrington, with none of the live standup found on his earlier releases. Best of the bunch is one co-written with Keith, "White Shirts & Rain," where Carrington obsesses on breasts like a schoolboy and then begs women, "Could you run through my lawn?/I got my sprinkler on/Because today looks like no rain." Highlight "If I'm the Only One" suspects the wife is cheating ("If I'm the only one you've ever loved/How come you got so many Mardi Gras beads"), while the very funny "Do You All" looks back at Carrington's high-school days as a time of missed opportunities ("There were other girls and I had the chance/But I got down in the wrong one's pants/And I'm married now"). The Mexicali-flavored title track and the country-rockin' "Drink More Beer" are both on permanent vacation and are perfectly suited for Kenny Chesney or Jimmy Buffett fans. Actually, any flipflop-wearing weekend warrior with a rowdy sense of humor will enjoy the majority of the album.