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Toby Keith, Complicated Conservative February 08, 2024

Country music lost an icon this week. Toby Keith passed away Monday after a battle with stomach cancer. He was 62. The Oklahoma native was a larger-than-life entertainer with a penchant for patriotic anthems that his critics would label jingoistic. T...

In Praise of Toby Keith and Carl Weathers February 08, 2024

In early January, I lost a dear friend, Jeff Guillebeau, a natural leader of men. His human heart could not keep up with the sacrificial love demanded of it by his warrior spirit. Jeff was 59....

Country Icon Toby Keith Dies at 62 February 07, 2024

Country music icon Toby Keith has died at 62 following a two-year battle with stomach cancer. The singer-songwriter — known for such patriotic anthems as “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)” and “Made in America” — passed “peace...

Toby Keith: 12 Essential Songs February 07, 2024

Toby Keith was one of the Nineties and 2000s most charismatic country artists, known for songs that were heavy in humor, romance, and patriotism — even when they were mixed with a heavy dose of post-9/11  jingoism — all of them delivered in a rich ba...