Toby Keith has been honoured with four prizes at the Academy of Country Music awards. Toby Keith , Classic Or Dud?

The Dixie Chicks MAY have been intentionally overlooked, but I doubt TK scored any points FOR his jingoistic stance -- "Courtesy" isn't even on the album (although "American Soldier" is). He just made a great record.

Olivia Newton-John to thread.

Now, let's see what he's done before this record. "I Wanna Talk About Me" was the worst country novelty record to hit the scene since Billy Ray. "How Do You Like Me Now" was a big hit that I never understood why it was so big. "A Little Less Talk, A Lot More Action," that's probably his best song. As for Courtesy of the Red White and Blue, that's not nearly as much of an asshole song as people suggest.

Sitting in the parking lot late one night, patiently waiting for sobriety to return, I found this song on the radio, and I laughed until a blazing dove came down from Heaven and did a little tap-dance on my beer-soaked skull.

For that moment, and that moment alone, I dub Toby Keith a classic. I imagine that I would have thought G.W. Bush to be a classic too, if I had met him in his drunken prime. If George & Toby had remained on their barstools, happily oblivious to the world of politics, I'd have a good deal more affection for both of them.

I love this bar,
It's my kind place.
Just walk in through the front door,
Puts a big smile on my face.
It ain't too far; come as you are.
Mm, mm, mmm, mmm, mmm, I love this bar.

I've seen short skirts; we've got high-techs;
Blue collar boys and rednecks.
An' we got lovers; lots of lookers;
I've even seen dancin' girls and hookers.
And we like to drink our beer from a mason jar:
Mm, mm, mmm, mmm, mmm, I love this bar, yes I do!

I like my truck, (I like my truck),
An' I like my girlfriend, (I like my girlfriend),
I like to take her out to dinner;
I like a movie now and then:

But I love this bar,
It's my kind place.
Just toeing around the dance floor,
Puts a big smile on my face.
No cover charge; come as you are.
Mm, mm, mmm, mmm, mmm, I love this bar.
Mm, mm, mmm, mmm, mmm, I just love this ol' bar.

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By the way, I didn't see much of the country awards last night, but Big & Rich's performance was COMPLETELY. FUCKING. INSANE. Easily the most entertaining live musical performance I've seen on TV in, I dunno, forever. (Since, what, Funky Four Plus One on Saturday Night Live in '81? Public Image Ltd on American Bandstand in '80? Something like that. I dunno, maybe I'm forgetting something. But still...)

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Don Allred's two cents:

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Which song did they do? Wonder if this'll be rebroadcast. I fuggin love these guys right now. Though the songs *may* all be about 30-75 seconds too long. But what to cut out???

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SERIOUSLY! I'm especially big on Wild West Show (western epic as breakup metaphor, the plaintive "Hey Ya."s, the imagery, is that Zamfir I hear blowin?, the list goes on), Drinkin' 'bout You...shit. The whole thing. Can't wait for the article, Chuck.

I were very confused.

Big & Rich: Album of the Decade?

as no other bar
would contain the many kinds
of types of people

but the radio
is the great big leveler,
there's no cover charge

The Chicks did well last year, didnt expect them to do well this year.

Matos was right about Big & Rich, I have to say.

Anyway, I'm all about Toby's red, white and blue ear monitor here. (Shot was from a show in Afghanistan last week.)

Ryan Adams - Toby Keith rant.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/12l582

Toby Keith is a gigantic cock.

ah, a man with good music and shit politics vs. a man with idk maybe good politics who used to do good music but now is shit.

toby's a much better comedian so he wins.

"Ain't No Right Way" is one of the better political songs of the last decade -- so damn pained!

Should I get Big Dog Daddy next?

man I heard "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue" on the radio today & got seriously pumped up---totally effective & fabulous song, despite my ambiguities with the ideal it propounds. They played "Made In America" about an hour later & here I am driving in the heartland in an army town, with soldiers having been sitting in the front of my classroom today as it is each term here, and Keith's got me again; he's very good at what he does!

"Red Solo Cup" has quietly become the sort of inescapable perennial heard at barbeques.

it was released barely 6 months ago, it's just entering its first barbecue season!

Who are you even kidding?

it's an even more try-hard i got friends in low places and not as good

but it's still ok

Went to a party last weekend and the bar stools had red solo cups painted on them, along with lyrics from the refrain.

Heard it three times this weekend in three different places.

"I Love This Bar" >>> "Get Drunk and Be Somebody" >>>>>> "Red Solo Cup"

but who am I kdding

I've never actually heard "Red Solo Cup," but I mentioned it the other day and was mildly surprised that people knew what I was talking about. (The only contemporary country fan I know IRL is my mom.)

"I Love This Bar" is pretty good, isn't it?

Yes. The 2002-2006 period is worth a Spotify playlist.

I love I Love This Bar, whatta melody on the chorus.

i'm not happy about this

stealing the young girls' hearts

for a while he was a Democrat. RIP.

Wow what a surprise he turns out to be a shithead who could have seen it coming

musician who makes bombastic songs for republicans turns out to support bombastic republican president

like, I'm sure it was fun for the people playing 20-dimensional music critic chess with this guy's not-remotely-murky politics (if you qualify as a celebrity, which if you're a musician giving an interview in a major publication you qualify as in this metaphor, the political views you claim in an interview are whichever views will best "activate" and/or placate the fans) but come on

for a while he was a Democrat

Hey, remember Zell Miller?

well, I never gave a shit about his politics, which were obvious from about 1998 onwards. But he still made good records until 2006 so

Hey, remember Zell Miller?

― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱),

and George Wallace

Toby Keith is a gigantic cock.

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I still stand by this.

also, he looks like bathing offends him

They don't call them the Great Unwashed for nothing.

i wanna talk about me & as good as i once was are all-time songs and it's hard for me to reconcile the cleverness and self-awareness of them with someone who'd agree to play for fucking donald trump, and actually this is one of the awfulest things about people like trump, or marine le pen, or other shit-stirring know-nothing populist nativist dickbags, is they end up appealing to some otherwise fine, funny, decent, interesting people who unfortunately have been culturally isolated enough to not think very deeply about what they're getting into and suddenly before you know it they're posting racist facebook memes

he still made good records until 2006 so

this. plus a handful of really good singles for four or five years after that.

they end up appealing to some otherwise fine, funny, decent, interesting people who unfortunately have been culturally isolated enough to not think very deeply about what they're getting into

i don't think toby keith is culturally isolated, and i assume he does think about what he's getting into. i also assume, based on keith and assorted others who said yes to this gig, that not having had a hit in several years makes it either a) easier to say yes or b) harder to say no, or both.

he also wrote a song about kicking terrorists in the ass with your boot

toby keith also played the RNC, it didn't come out of nowhere (he said he "would have played the DNC if they offeredd" but that's kind of like me saying that I'd accept $1 million from trump if he offered: so unlikely a possibility as to be moot)

he also wrote a song about kicking terrorists in the ass with your boot

the one time i saw him live, about 10 years ago, he was great for the 80-ish minutes of his regular set, then he came back for the encore and the entire arena, not just him, turned into a red, white and blue kick-terrorists-in-the-ass-vote-republican-and-be-christian rally. it was legitimately scary. but those 80 minutes were still great.

he also wrote a song about kicking terrorists in the ass with your boot

i kinda liked this song o_O

no you're right he doesn't really have the same excuses that say my jackass father-in-law does

it's not as poignant as Alan Jackson's

he also wrote a song about kicking terrorists in the ass with your boot

May very well be Trump's secret ISIS plan.

"Beer for My Horses" just went by the radio and, wow, I can't believe any station would play this in 2020. Also, wtf, there was a movie??

Yeah, used to hear this on the radio all the time (back when I lived in a red state small town) and always did a double take at the lyrics. The awful thing is the chorus is kinda catchy so when I hear it on the radio I sometimes catch myself humming it later that day.

NEWS: Amid impeachment effort, Trump is giving medals to @tobykeith and @RickySkaggs — national medal of the arts, several sources tell me

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