 
"I
Stoled This Record" followed in 1996. This album, despite not producing
a chart single, earned RIAA gold certification for shipping 500,000
copies. This album included parodies of two Shania Twain songs: "If
You're Not in It for Love, I'm Outta Here!" became "I'm Not in It for
Love, Just Yer Beer" and "Any Man of Mine" became "If Shania Was Mine."
John Michael Montgomery's "Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)"
was parodied twice on this album.
His third album, "Did I Shave My Back For This?" (a take-off on Deana
Carter's (Did I Shave My Legs for This?) included his first duet, with
Buck Owens on the original track "First Redneck on the Internet." The
album also parodied Alan Jackson, Brooks & Dunn, and Mindy
McCready.
1998's "Juddmental" was his final album for Razor & Tie. It
included a duet, this time with Daryle Singletary on "Ricky Tidwell's
Momma's Gonna Play Football," a non-parody song previously recorded by
Tim Wilson. This album once again parodied a Twain song, with her
"Honey, I'm Home" becoming "Shania, I'm Broke." The Garth Brooks/Trisha
Yearwood duet "In Another's Eyes" was also parodied on this
compilation.
2000-2005
After leaving Razor & Tie Records, Judd signed to Monument
Records Nashville in 2000 to release his fifth album, "Just Another Day
in Parodies." This album produced his first chart single in "My
Cellmate Thinks I'm Sexy", a parody of Kenny Chesney's 1999 single "She
Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" which referenced Chesney's and McGraw's 2000
arrest for stealing a Mounted Reserve officer's horse. The parody
charted at 61 on Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now
Hot Country Songs). Following this song was another chart single, "How
Do You Milk a Cow" (based on Toby Keith's "How Do You Like Me Now?"),
which peaked at 67. In 2002, he released "Cledus Envy," followed later
that year by a Christmas album entitled Cledus Navidad. At the end of
the year, Judd also made an appearance in the music video for Keith's
"Who's Your Daddy?."
His last release for Monument was a six-song EP called "A Six Pack of
Judd," released in 2003. After Monument closed its Nashville division,
he signed to Koch Records Nashville to release a second EP, the
four-song "The Original Dixie Hick," later in 2003. This release, which
contained parodies pertaining to the Dixie Chicks, also produced his
third chart single in "Martie, Natalie and Emily (The Continuing Saga
Of)," a parody of Brad Paisley's "Celebrity."
His final release for Koch was 2004's "Bipolar and Proud." This
album produced two more chart singles for him, including his
highest-peaking, the 48 "I Love NASCAR", which parodied Toby Keith's "I
Love This Bar" and included guest vocals from Keith himself. Following
this song was the 58 "Bake Me A Country Ham," based on Tracy Lawrence's
"Paint Me a Birmingham."
2006-Present
By mid-2005, Cledus had announced plans to release a tribute album to
Ray
Stevens entitled "Boogity, Boogity" - A Tribute to the Comedic Genius
of Ray Stevens, containing covers of Steven's material with several
guest vocalists. Due to the closure of Koch's Nashville division,
however, this album was delayed until 2007, when he signed to
Asylum-Curb Records and released it in August. Shortly before its
release, he made his sixth chart appearance with the non-album song
"Illegals".
Cledus
re-signed to Koch in 2009. In January of this year, he released
the single "Waitin' On Obama" (a parody of Brad Paisley's "Waitin' on a
Woman") referencing Barack Obama's election as President of the United
States. This is the first single from his forthcoming album Polyrically
Uncorrect.
He
has also signed a publishing deal with Sony/ATV Music and Rascal
Flatt’s Joe
Don Rooney’s publishing company as a songwriter. Cledus was co-writer
on
a bonus track “The Way” from the Rascal Flatts CD Still Feels
Good.
Radio and Television
Work
Cledus has toured as an emcee with such acts as Brooks and Dunn, Brad
Paisley, Trace Adkins, Toby Keith, the Dixie Chicks, Shania Twain, and
Montgomery Gentry. His television work includes a stint as the
co-host of CMT Most Wanted Live from 2002 to 2004 and as a "special
correspondent" on the 2005 season of Nashville Star. Additionally, he
was one of the featured contestants on Season Five of VH1's reality
show Celebrity Fit Club.
He also hosted the Cledus T. Party Morning Show for WQYK in Tampa,
Florida. In January 2008, he returned to Atlanta as the morning host at
94.9/The Bull, WUBL.
Cledus
is currently living happily in Georgia with his wife Amy, daughter,
Caitlyn Rose and son C. J.
 
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