RIP TOBY KEITH

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/toby-keith-dies-country-singer-stomach-cancer-rcna137412

Wow, terrible.. .. RIP

One of the Kuntry Musik artist I enjoyed to hear their music

I really enjoyed "Courtesy of the Red White and Blue"

How do you like me now video was pretty entertaining.

Wife loved him. R.I.P

Way back when the dinosaurs walked the earth (January 1996) we had a super bowl watching party, Cowboys vs. Steelers.
Had a big stereo system at our apartment blaring "Should Have Been a Cowboy" surprised we did not get any complaints for the walls were shaking.

He looked rough

Wow, I was not expecting that. RIP.

RIP.

Very sad deal. Seemed like a great dude and pro-American.

RIP sir!

Loved that song...RIP.

Great guy, love what he did for our troops. His music is like nails on a chalk board.

He will be missed. Great singer.

Liked him as a singer, preferred his early stuff "Red Dirt" album to his more recent "politically/patrioticly" driven stuff of 2000s.

Cancer sucks.

RIP

Saw him in Iraq in 06... just him and another guy on acoustics. Great show.

Damn.

Awful.

RIP

Godspeed Toby!

Enjoyed his music, was a good American. RIP

RIP Sir

Boomer Sooner Mr. Keith.

one of my favorite artists and an absolutely terrible disease...if you haven't seen it, go watch his performance of "Don't let the old man in" at the People's Choice music awards last year...still brings me to tears. RIP Toby!

Too young.

Thank you, Mr. Keith for sharing your talent and love of this country. Rest peacefully.

RIP. Prayers for all concerned.

Rest In Peace, sir

I heard a great story about him a few months ago. He and Merle Haggard, and some other singers were at a big concert. It was Merle's later years, and he was not so healthy. Back stage, Merle became weak and said to Toby these people paid to see us, but I don't think I can do it. Toby said he'd take care of it for Merle. Merle asked "how many of my songs do you know?" Toby said "all of em". And then he went and sang in Merle's place.

Another example of a stand up guy.

Another country legend gone. RIP Mr. Keith.

Soooo many good ones leaving us….and soooo much crap still hanging around!

R.I.P. Sir! Thank you

crap

cancer does suck

RIP Toby

X2
Big C doesn't take prisoners

What a damn shame, R I P

One thing's for sure, you better be ready to meet your maker. Cancer/death doesn't discriminate. May he RIP, and condolences to his family.

Hell a talent. RIP Toby. Will toast him with a shot of whiskey and a beer for the horses...

I was never a huge fan of his music but was a huge fan of his. He seemed like a great American who really gave back to our troops.

Cancer sucks. I've seen it take down way too many good people.

Good dude , 🙏

Maybe at the Super Bowl they should play Courtesy of the Red White and Blue rather than the black national anthem.

That would be racist, of course.

i just watched it. Whew!!!! Very touching. Especially now.

RIP, Sir.

God Bless you Toby

I was watching Newsmax this morning when this news broke. Just terrible. He was talking about touring again not long ago. Heard he spent his own money many times traveling to the middle east to entertain the troops. Great American patriot. I play his greatest hits cd regularly on the back porch. He will be missed. R.I.P. Okie!

Yep, he was a good one. Solid American. I covered a bunch of his songs playing in country bands. RIP Toby.

Don't know if this is true or not but regarding the song "Don't Let The Old Man in." Tobey ask Clint Eastwood how he was able to continue his active life. That was the answer. Don't Let The Old Man In.

Like his music a lot and from what I know thought he was a good guy. RIP

RIP Toby

RIP. Good musician and he always seemed to be a genuinely good guy.

Lots of good songs RIP

Good article

https://www.military.com/off-duty/music/2024/02/06/americans-were-never-supposed-hear-toby-keiths-[censored]-kicking-post-9-11-battle-song-radio.html


Americans Were Never Supposed to Hear Toby Keith's Azz-Kicking Post-9/11 Battle Song on the Radio




Toby Keith, country music superstar and avid USO supporter who performed for more than 250,000 troops in 17 countries over two decades, died of stomach cancer on Feb. 5, 2024, at his home in Oklahoma.

Among the most popular songs Keith, who was 62, performed for American troops was "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)," which also turned out to be his most controversial -- even though Keith had never intended to release the song to the public in the first place

Looking back at 2002, one might think of the overly patriotic song's release as one of the most significant cultural flashpoints of the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. That year, Keith was kicked off the list of performers for an ABC Independence Day special when he refused to change the song's lyrics, and the anthem led to a yearslong feud with Natalie Maines, lead singer of the country band then known as the Dixie Chicks.

But Keith had only ever intended to play "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue" at USO shows and military performances; he was never going to record the song and release it to the public more broadly, according to The Washington Post -- that is, until a few choice words from the Marine Corps' top officer changed his mind.

According to the Post, then-Commandant of the Marine Corps and future Supreme Allied Commander Gen. James L. Jones had told Keith outright that "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue" was "the most amazing battle song I've ever heard in my life" and encouraged him to release the song as a single


"Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue" peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and No. 25 on the overall list of top songs in the U.S. following its release. In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, it's not hard to figure out why: Keith describes the attack as a "sucker punch" and the U.S. response as "a boot in your [censored], it's the American Way."

Keith was at the height of his fame at the time of the attacks, and like other artists, he wanted to write a song about what he was feeling in the aftermath. But where other country artists wrote about grief and loss, Keith wondered why no one had written a song about how angry people were about the attacks. So he invoked the memory of his father, Hubert Keith Covel, and began writing angry lyrics on the back of a fantasy football sheet, dashing out the music and lyrics in about 20 minutes.

Covel was an Army veteran who fought in the Korean War, who really did lose his right eye and really did fly the American flag from his home every day until he died. The day he died also happened to be in 2001, when a charter bus collided with his car on a stretch of Oklahoma's Interstate 35. His father's death is also what compelled Keith to start touring with the USO as a way to honor his father, who had begged the singer to do USO tours for years.

Keith first played "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue" while performing for Marines at the Pentagon prior to their deployment to Afghanistan. Keith told his captive audience he would have to play an acoustic version, because the band didn't know it yet. That's when Gen. Jones approached him and encouraged the singer to release his battle hymn as a single. Keith knew the song would be controversial, but he released it because "if it means so much to those guys, I don't care. I'll do it."

"Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue" was a single on Keith's 2002 album "Unleashed," which was certified platinum four times by the Recording Industry Association of America for selling more than four million copies. Despite the subsequent rows with ABC News' Peter Jennings and a feud with Dixie Chicks singer Maines that lasted years, Keith never expressed any regret about the song's sentiment.

"Most people think I'm a redneck patriot," he told Time magazine in 2004. "I'm OK with that."

I wish this country was as patriotic as it was on September 12, 2001.

Toby Kieth knew it. He won.
And the Dixie Chicks got black listed by their former fans.

If you are able to watch/listen to that and not cry lots of tears then you and I are very different. Very different….
RIP Toby Keith

Criminal laws that aren't enforced, (MN riots, mobs destroying property), wars that we shouldn't be in, a stolen election, on and on, has thrown patriotism out the window.

I wish I had posted this somewhere besides here. I think Toby Keith was great!!!