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

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.

― HI DERE, Monday, May 21, 2007 2:07 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 13, 2021

RIP

if I speak

“A Little Too Late” “As Good As I Once Was” “Just Talking About Tonight” all classics imo

what????

Yeah, he had a run of good to excellent albums in the mid '00s. I'd add "Somewhere Else," "I Love This Bar," and about a dozen others to PK's list.

Requisite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyIwRoPr728

Raekwon of Wu-Tang posted a tribute yesterday with a photo of them playing golf together. "One of my good friends"

Make sense. Remember GFK’s pro-war verse on Rules?

This thread is the ILX equivalent of political reporters transcribing the "wisdom" of rural diner patrons.

yeah but you get prime don and prime chuck in the village voice excerpts. you have to look at the bright side.

That kind of writing is exactly why I thought there would never be a place for me in the Voice.

Let's talk about reporters in diners in every thread today challenge

Toby Keith's I Love This Diner

reporters can be eaten in diners too

If we have to drag Merle into this, its worth noting that he changed his views on the war & counterculture over time and didnt hesitate to call songs like "Okie" and "Fighting Side of Me" the work of a dumb ignorant kid.

is that true? he definitely had mixed feelings about "okie" but as far as i remember he proudly defended "fightin' side" to the end. (a fantastic composition and fantastic recording, to my ears, based on a repulsive idea.)

yeah, I prefer it to "Okie."

i thought Okie started as a joke? The story I remember reading once was that they were smoking weed on the tour bus and they passed Muskogee and someone in the band cracked "They don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee!"

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.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, January 17, 2017 3:48 PM (seven years ago)

everything i loved and hated about toby keith summed in three sentences about 90 minutes. he was a phenomenal and soulful singer and songwriter. he had some deeply problematic ideas. neither of these things cancels out the other.

“Great concert, wonderful memories, shame about the Klan rally at the end but it was wonderful before that”

Leave Kanye alone

"How Do You Like Me Now?" < the press photo of Trinidad James's visible underwear complete w/ noticeable skidmark

sad lol djp

Blogged my favorite song of his a couple of days ago:

This isolation booth I'm in is dark and turning cold

And I reviewed him in the Voice in 2002:

Quiet Desert Storm

frank kogan, as i live and breathe. will wonders never cease. this thread has really delivered the old home week cheer!

yeah it is often difficult in the old home, it's nice when they give us a week.

i'd say it's more like a weak cheer tbh