RIP Toby Keith

[Pilot]

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.

 

[DanOregon]

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.

 

[TigerVols]

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.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Ouch!

 

[OscarMadison]

Twitter is such a cesspool. I guess this is the ACAB BS over "Beer For My Horses." Again.

 

[BrownScribe]

I mean John Anderson is pretty epic himself. Not surprising that he would beat George and Reba back then.

 

[maumann]

I mean John Anderson is pretty epic himself. Not surprising that he would beat George and Reba back then.

The Seminole Wind album, with the title track, Straight Tequila Night, Let Go Of The Stone and When It Comes To You was just fire.

 

[DanOregon]

Oh I liked Anderson - but he's not Strait or Reba. It's really weird seeing the list of nominees year by year. Who won, who didn't. Some were nominated in multiple years.

 

[swingline]

Don’t **** with John Anderson. Charlotte will cut a *****.

 

[maumann]

Don’t **** with John Anderson. Charlotte will cut a *****.

Just a swingline.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

 

[DanOregon]

Hmmmm.

Toby Keith’s Widow Fears Threats If Public Learns About Late Country Star’s Secret Businesses

I'm trying to think what business would prompt threats to the family. A yoga studio? Founding donor of Biden Re-Election campaign? VeggieBurgers? Solar?

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Hmmmm.

Toby Keith’s Widow Fears Threats If Public Learns About Late Country Star’s Secret Businesses

I'm trying to think what business would prompt threats to the family. A yoga studio? Founding donor of Biden Re-Election campaign? VeggieBurgers? Solar?

I think it’s general threats because it will reveal home addresses because that’s where the LLCs are based.

I know he owned a fishing lure company and, rumor has it, a few Oklahoma dispensaries.

 

[OscarMadison]

This is probably a nothingburger. How sad to have to live with that mindset.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

If a business is aboveboard, those addresses and contact info should be readily available as a matter of public record.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

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

The Chicks

 

[Inky_Wretch]

If a business is aboveboard, those addresses and contact info should be readily available as a matter of public record.

If you're willing to follow the trail of holding companies and LLCs, yeah. I guess they are worried it will make it too easy for people to figure out who owns what.

 

[Chef2]

Hmmmm.

Toby Keith’s Widow Fears Threats If Public Learns About Late Country Star’s Secret Businesses

I'm trying to think what business would prompt threats to the family. A yoga studio? Founding donor of Biden Re-Election campaign? VeggieBurgers? Solar?

I don’t care if you’re Toby Keith, an oil baron or whoever……if you’re in OKC and worth close to a Billy, people will know about it.

 

[FileNotFound]

Hmmmm.

Toby Keith’s Widow Fears Threats If Public Learns About Late Country Star’s Secret Businesses

I'm trying to think what business would prompt threats to the family. A yoga studio? Founding donor of Biden Re-Election campaign? VeggieBurgers? Solar?

Sellout Crowd?

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Sellout Crowd?

Take your like and continue on as you were.