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Loco Motive (album)

album by Cowboy Troy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ6665947 ↗
Source-derived summary

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.

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“Loco Motive (album)” enters the record as album by Cowboy Troy. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Loco, Motive and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Loco, Motive and album.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6665947. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “Loco Motive (album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.