RIP Toby Keith

We stayed at the Vegas Harrah's once. Didn't eat there at Toby's restaurant, but put $10 into a video poker machine and, over the next couple of hours, got three 32-ounce drafts. A $1 tip for each.
"Whiskey Girl" was my favorite Toby Keith song. My wife loves him. Saw him twice in concert.

 

"Who's That Man" isn't the saddest country song, but it's up there.

 

I'm almost sure he chewed. A leading cause of stomach cancer.

 

I always thought it was interesting that he endorsed Obama and stated he was a Democrat.

Buzz Briefs: Toby Keith, Donnie Wahlberg

 

RIP to a fellow traveler. Cancer go can fuck.

 

I'm guessing The (nee The Dixie Chicks) won't be performing at his funeral.

 

Are they even still a thing? Natalie just released an album as Natalie Maines and the Whatzawhosits and the other two have something called the Courtyard Hounds or something like that.

XOXO,
Anyone but Big & Rich

 

Surprised he only one two CMAs (for videos), considering how much he sold. Not even the Horizon Award. Fun trivia - who beat George Strait and Reba McEntire the year they were both nominated for the award.

 

gonna be weird place for this question if it’s not Toby Keith.

 

I was just checking out the winners of the award....anyway - it was John Anderson. Keith was never even nominated for the award after Shoulda Been a Cowboy. Only the most "spun" (its a stat) song of the 1990s. I do think its interesting that like Shania Twain (they were actually label-mates when they first launched) - Nashville didn't know how to respond to either since they both brought a little more "flair" to their music, than the establishment was used to. But Keith's songs seem quaint now compared to some of the dreck flying out of Music City.

 

I had the good fortune of being actively involved in the country music industry during its mid-90s boom and ran across Toby several times, both professionally and personally (thanks to having mutual drinking buddies) and I found him kinda shy, kinda awkward...much "smaller" than his fame and his frame. As for not winning awards, he was the victim of bad timing...there were a LOT of TK-types in country music at the time, from John Michael Montgomery and Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw etc etc trying to be the next Garth/Clint/George -- and his labels, [edit] A&M / Polydor, didn't exactly have any clout on the Row.

RIP cowboy.

 

Ouch!