Taylor Swift Talks about Love and Writing on MTV
Taylor Swift talked about her breakup with teen heart throb Joe Jonas and the song she wrote about it, "Always & Forever," on MTV News.
The parting came in a brief phone call, Swift said.
She admitted her writing comes from a personal place.
"I like to write personal songs," Swift said. "I like to write songs that are very obviously about people. It's kind of hard to change your stripes. I like to write songs about love, and I like to write songs about relationships, and I like to write songs about boys."
Click here to read the complete story.
Country Music Awards Countdown
It's one day and counting until the Annual Country Music Awards, which airs live from Nashville at 8 p.m. on Wednesday on ABC.
Country music superstars Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood, the current male and female vocalists of the year, will host the big event.
Paisley and Underwood are schedule to perform, along with Trace Adkins, Brooks & Dunn, Kenny Chesney with The Wailers, the Eagles, Alan Jackson, cross-over Kid Rock, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, George Strait, Sugarland, Taylor Swift and Keith Urban.
Toby Keith Gripes about the CMA in People Magazine
Toby Keith says that in spite of being the top-earning country performer he gets no respect from the Country Music Association.
Toby is quoted as saying the Country Music Association "screwed him" in People Magazine. That's why he doesn't attend the awards show.
Click here to read the article in People.
Showing posts with label Toby Keith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Toby Keith. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Toby Keith on Glenn Beck: Country Music Star Talks About Hollywood, His New Movie, Politics and Ted Nugent
Toby Keith did an hour-long interview on the Glenn Beck show, talking about everything from Hollywood to movie making to politics to Ted Nugent.
Toby's new movie Beer For My Horses is in theaters on Friday.
Here is an excerpt from the show:
GLENN: Okay. Toby, you've got a new movie that is coming out and it is, from what I understand, I haven't seen it yet, but it comes out is it wide release? What is it August 5th?
TOBY: It comes out August 8th.
GLENN: August 8th.
TOBY: We're in about a hundred locations, and Lion's Gate doing it. Roadside Attractions, Lion's Gate are doing this thing, they take these kind of movies, they know how to market them, they know how to blow them up. The last thing you want to do is spend twice as much as it costs to make the movie trying to decide. We'll find out here in the next two or three weeks what we have and if the public likes it, then we'll blow it up, it'll be a huge expansion.
GLENN: From the way you described it, it is kind of like the old Smoky and the Bandit. It's kind of that fun, light hearted, make fun of yourself, you know, rebel but not a jerk kind of you know, charming rebel.
TOBY: Right, I always make fun of myself first and then I can just rare back and laugh at everybody else. So, hey, you know what, it I met Burt Reynolds on a project a couple of years ago and he said, you know what, you're very charming and you you have the persona to be a very charming but when crossed dangerous guy, he said, that's the same quality, not that I'm not this guy, this is Burt Reynolds, I can quote him, he said, John Wayne had that charming but dangerous thing. He said if you'll gravitate to that, you can do what I do for a living, have fun at the same time. When I wrote this script with Rodney Carrington, comedy, it was a tip of the hat to Burt Reynolds.
GLENN: Willy Nelson is in the movie. Everybody is in the movie. Ted Nugent is in the movie. You're close with Ted, aren't you?
TOBY: You know, Ted has a great heart. Ted gets a bad rap for being an extreme right wing radical.
GLENN: He is one of the most giving man I've ever seen.
TOBY: Ted doesn't get any credit, which is the way it are usually works. They pick out one thing about you, blow it up. As extreme as he is, as hard as he drives it. He does a lot for kids, he is auto he never done drugs or alcohol, he appreciates that, tells kids not to open doors (those doors at his camps. He wants to live off the land like his four fathers did, God bless him, if he wants to eat deer every night for dinner, go for it.
Click here to read the interview or to listen to an audio playback at glennbeck.com.
Click here for more info about the Toby Keith fan club. The cost starts at $25.
Click here to get your copy of the Black Book Guide to Official Country Music Fan Clubs: The Top 100.
Toby's new movie Beer For My Horses is in theaters on Friday.
Here is an excerpt from the show:
GLENN: Okay. Toby, you've got a new movie that is coming out and it is, from what I understand, I haven't seen it yet, but it comes out is it wide release? What is it August 5th?
TOBY: It comes out August 8th.
GLENN: August 8th.
TOBY: We're in about a hundred locations, and Lion's Gate doing it. Roadside Attractions, Lion's Gate are doing this thing, they take these kind of movies, they know how to market them, they know how to blow them up. The last thing you want to do is spend twice as much as it costs to make the movie trying to decide. We'll find out here in the next two or three weeks what we have and if the public likes it, then we'll blow it up, it'll be a huge expansion.
GLENN: From the way you described it, it is kind of like the old Smoky and the Bandit. It's kind of that fun, light hearted, make fun of yourself, you know, rebel but not a jerk kind of you know, charming rebel.
TOBY: Right, I always make fun of myself first and then I can just rare back and laugh at everybody else. So, hey, you know what, it I met Burt Reynolds on a project a couple of years ago and he said, you know what, you're very charming and you you have the persona to be a very charming but when crossed dangerous guy, he said, that's the same quality, not that I'm not this guy, this is Burt Reynolds, I can quote him, he said, John Wayne had that charming but dangerous thing. He said if you'll gravitate to that, you can do what I do for a living, have fun at the same time. When I wrote this script with Rodney Carrington, comedy, it was a tip of the hat to Burt Reynolds.
GLENN: Willy Nelson is in the movie. Everybody is in the movie. Ted Nugent is in the movie. You're close with Ted, aren't you?
TOBY: You know, Ted has a great heart. Ted gets a bad rap for being an extreme right wing radical.
GLENN: He is one of the most giving man I've ever seen.
TOBY: Ted doesn't get any credit, which is the way it are usually works. They pick out one thing about you, blow it up. As extreme as he is, as hard as he drives it. He does a lot for kids, he is auto he never done drugs or alcohol, he appreciates that, tells kids not to open doors (those doors at his camps. He wants to live off the land like his four fathers did, God bless him, if he wants to eat deer every night for dinner, go for it.
Click here to read the interview or to listen to an audio playback at glennbeck.com.
Click here for more info about the Toby Keith fan club. The cost starts at $25.
Click here to get your copy of the Black Book Guide to Official Country Music Fan Clubs: The Top 100.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Country Music News: Big Dog Daddy
Toby Keith brought his Big Dog Daddy tour to South Florida Saturday night and rocked the house with his unique blend of country.
Janis Fontaine offered this review in the Palm Beach Post today:
WEST PALM BEACH — Even in the heat, I love freedom of the outdoor space at Sound Advice. If you've never seen a concert there, I recommend the venue. And if you can see a superstar like Toby Keith, so much the better.
Keith took the stage shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday following opening acts Flynnville Train and Miranda Lambert. Train delivered a solid set, showing that these guys are obviously great musicians. But their look is more sloppy than sexy - they all have longer hair than I do - and probably won't appeal to the fans who buy the CDs - women, who on top of talent want someone nice to look at.
Miranda Lambert, on the other hand, is very nice to look at. But she started her set with one of the worse faux pas in the music business - she said hello to the wrong city. That's like calling your date by the wrong name. How invested can you be if you can't get the name right?
Lambert tried to make up for it but giving a rocking performance. I was impressed with her stamina. Playing the stage at SAA in August is a bit like trial by fire, and the Kerosene girl didn't falter there. She took the stage to strains of American Woman in a teal tank and jeans, and played her signature pink guitar, then went right into Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, the title cut from her second CD. She almost seemed to kick up a little breeze with her attitude.
The native Texan gracefully swept the sweat from her brow and delivered What About Georgia and Me and Charlie Talking, then followed the lighthearted Dry Town with the dark Gunpowder and Lead. They bathed her in red for the dark ballad about killing an abusive boyfriend: "His fist is big but my gun's bigger..."
Lambert kept up the pace for the rest of her set, flinging her long blond hair about and running across the stage even at the end of her set. Aside from the tiny but important mistake, she delivered a great show. But she knew that we were there for the Big Dog.
As usual, Toby opened with a video featuring a Ford truck (his sponsor) and Larry the Cable Guy: The Adventures of Big Dog Daddy and Possum Boy. Hilarious.
Then the curtain opened to reveal Keith's new set. (Unlike Tim and Faith he revamped just about everything this year and spared no expense.) No Ford truck center stage this year, but the whole set was based upon its grill. Sort of subliminal advertising.
And Keith did not forget where he was. As a date, he was fully engaged. Lots of eye contact - I don't know how you make a crowd of thousands feel like they're making an individual connection, but he did.
He looked great in a black T-shirt and jeans, very fit and strong. The set showcased his 10-piece band, with dozens of lights and a huge video screen behind the band that looked like a big trampoline.
Keith opened with Big Dog Daddy, the title cut from his new CD, and followed with Honkytonk U. He showed pictures of his grandma and himself as boy, great for the "Aaww" factor. The show, which on many levels seemed spontaneous, was a well-orchestrated game plan careully designed to give the fans an emotional experience. And it worked.
Keith played drinking songs: Get Drunk and Be Somebody, Whiskey Girl; love songs: He Ain't Worth Missing, You Should't Kiss Me Like That; and redneck songs: As Good As I Once Was, Who's Your Daddy. But when he sang his first No. 1 single, I Shoulda Been a Cowboy, the crowd shouted loud enough to drown him out.
After a whirlwind of hit songs, Keith and his band played a Ted Nugent song, and he scoffed, "I can rock but they can't sing country!"
When the show "ended" the crowd knew it wasn't over. We hadn't heard the patriotic songs, songs at the core of who Keith is. To chants of Toby and USA, he returned for the encore. He played American Soldier and Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue amid fireworks and flames.
It was the perfect good-night kiss.
More Miranda
Last week, Miranda gave this interview to Janis Fontaine at the Post:
"I'm partial to people with cocky attitudes," Miranda Lambert says with a laugh. "If you like it, great, if you don't, go somewhere else. I guess it gets translated into my music."
Lambert is not only talking about Toby Keith, whose Big Dog Daddy Tour she opens for on Saturday at Sound Advice Amphitheatre, but her second attitude-laden album, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which was released to rave reviews in May.
"This album has some extreme songs, but it's more just about being strong," she said by phone from St. Louis. "That's more the message that I'm trying to send: Be strong in whatever you're doing. Be a strong woman and stand up for yourself."
Lambert, the Nashville Star reality show finalist who set the country music scene on fire with her first platinum-selling disc Kerosene, has been standing tough for a long time. She learned to do for herself in tiny Lindale, Texas, about 40 miles east of Dallas, population 2,500.
Her parents were private investigators. "My parents didn't shelter me much. I grew up in a really great home and in church, but my parents had parties on the porch with Dad and everybody playing music and drinking beer, and I was just exposed to that lifestyle. They never tried to shelter me from that so I saw a lot early in my life."
On Kerosene, released when she was just 22, Lambert showed a maturity most artists work years for.
"People used to call me an old soul, and I think I was, and now I'm kind of catching up with it. When I started writing Kerosene I was 17 years old and I didn't really have a lot of life to write about. But being on the road for three years has taught me a lot. I think on this album I really wrote more from my point of view, rather than taking other people's perspective."
Lambert, like her lyrics, is thoughtful and complex: "Sweet like a kiss, sharp like a razor blade," as one line goes. She's a contradiction: A girly-girl who killed a deer with a bow last November; a sophisticated songwriter and accomplished guitarist who'll be only 24 on her next birthday.
In 2003, Lambert got national exposure when she came in third on the first season of Nashville Star, a country version of American Idol. She says losing that contest was a blessing.
"I was 19 years old and I wasn't ready to make a record in a month. For me, I got all the exposure of the winner that season because I was on all nine episodes, but I didn't have to have that big yellow sticker - Nashville Star Winner - on every album from here on out, and I also had plenty of time. I waited two years to put an album out and he (winner Buddy Jewell) had to put one out in a month. So I think it was a blessing I had time to build it.
"I think you can't really put your heart and soul into something you're rushed to do, especially in the creative sense. To me music is something that's very personal and that you really need to take time (with) and if you win, you don't have that time. When you're in such a rush, you maybe settle for a couple of songs you don't believe in."
Initially the picturesque blonde worried that her record label might want her to do just that: Sing songs she didn't like or believe in.
"I was ready with my whole spiel. Luckily, I had a great label. I signed with Sony and they just said, 'We signed you to be a writer, we signed you for who you are, now go and make your album.'
"It gave me a lot of confidence, but it was also a lot of pressure to do it right. I got to do this my way, but what if it's not successful? About a month before the album came out, I remember just being scared to death. Luckily, it worked."
Worked is an understatement. Kerosene debuted at No. 1 on the country charts, sold more than a million copies, earned her a Grammy nod, and was named one of the best albums of the year by The New York Times, Rolling Stone and Blender magazine.
And Kerosene's clever lyrics and catchy melodies helped Lambert distinguish herself in a country music landscape that seems to be littered with pretty blondes lately. She set herself apart from Carrie Underwood, Kellie Pickler and Taylor Swift, she said, by carving herself out a niche as the country-rocker girl.
"Every one of us has a different style," Lambert said. "I think I do something a lot different in my music and on stage. I sing about things other girls don't tend to sing about; drinking and cheating and real life situations and I think that sets me apart. And I have a tattoo," she laughs.
"It's a tough road, though. Everybody's looking at you and waiting to see who's going to have the next hit. I think I have more of an edge than the other girls, but thank God there's room for all of us."
Janis Fontaine offered this review in the Palm Beach Post today:
WEST PALM BEACH — Even in the heat, I love freedom of the outdoor space at Sound Advice. If you've never seen a concert there, I recommend the venue. And if you can see a superstar like Toby Keith, so much the better.
Keith took the stage shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday following opening acts Flynnville Train and Miranda Lambert. Train delivered a solid set, showing that these guys are obviously great musicians. But their look is more sloppy than sexy - they all have longer hair than I do - and probably won't appeal to the fans who buy the CDs - women, who on top of talent want someone nice to look at.
Miranda Lambert, on the other hand, is very nice to look at. But she started her set with one of the worse faux pas in the music business - she said hello to the wrong city. That's like calling your date by the wrong name. How invested can you be if you can't get the name right?
Lambert tried to make up for it but giving a rocking performance. I was impressed with her stamina. Playing the stage at SAA in August is a bit like trial by fire, and the Kerosene girl didn't falter there. She took the stage to strains of American Woman in a teal tank and jeans, and played her signature pink guitar, then went right into Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, the title cut from her second CD. She almost seemed to kick up a little breeze with her attitude.
The native Texan gracefully swept the sweat from her brow and delivered What About Georgia and Me and Charlie Talking, then followed the lighthearted Dry Town with the dark Gunpowder and Lead. They bathed her in red for the dark ballad about killing an abusive boyfriend: "His fist is big but my gun's bigger..."
Lambert kept up the pace for the rest of her set, flinging her long blond hair about and running across the stage even at the end of her set. Aside from the tiny but important mistake, she delivered a great show. But she knew that we were there for the Big Dog.
As usual, Toby opened with a video featuring a Ford truck (his sponsor) and Larry the Cable Guy: The Adventures of Big Dog Daddy and Possum Boy. Hilarious.
Then the curtain opened to reveal Keith's new set. (Unlike Tim and Faith he revamped just about everything this year and spared no expense.) No Ford truck center stage this year, but the whole set was based upon its grill. Sort of subliminal advertising.
And Keith did not forget where he was. As a date, he was fully engaged. Lots of eye contact - I don't know how you make a crowd of thousands feel like they're making an individual connection, but he did.
He looked great in a black T-shirt and jeans, very fit and strong. The set showcased his 10-piece band, with dozens of lights and a huge video screen behind the band that looked like a big trampoline.
Keith opened with Big Dog Daddy, the title cut from his new CD, and followed with Honkytonk U. He showed pictures of his grandma and himself as boy, great for the "Aaww" factor. The show, which on many levels seemed spontaneous, was a well-orchestrated game plan careully designed to give the fans an emotional experience. And it worked.
Keith played drinking songs: Get Drunk and Be Somebody, Whiskey Girl; love songs: He Ain't Worth Missing, You Should't Kiss Me Like That; and redneck songs: As Good As I Once Was, Who's Your Daddy. But when he sang his first No. 1 single, I Shoulda Been a Cowboy, the crowd shouted loud enough to drown him out.
After a whirlwind of hit songs, Keith and his band played a Ted Nugent song, and he scoffed, "I can rock but they can't sing country!"
When the show "ended" the crowd knew it wasn't over. We hadn't heard the patriotic songs, songs at the core of who Keith is. To chants of Toby and USA, he returned for the encore. He played American Soldier and Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue amid fireworks and flames.
It was the perfect good-night kiss.
More Miranda
Last week, Miranda gave this interview to Janis Fontaine at the Post:
"I'm partial to people with cocky attitudes," Miranda Lambert says with a laugh. "If you like it, great, if you don't, go somewhere else. I guess it gets translated into my music."
Lambert is not only talking about Toby Keith, whose Big Dog Daddy Tour she opens for on Saturday at Sound Advice Amphitheatre, but her second attitude-laden album, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which was released to rave reviews in May.
"This album has some extreme songs, but it's more just about being strong," she said by phone from St. Louis. "That's more the message that I'm trying to send: Be strong in whatever you're doing. Be a strong woman and stand up for yourself."
Lambert, the Nashville Star reality show finalist who set the country music scene on fire with her first platinum-selling disc Kerosene, has been standing tough for a long time. She learned to do for herself in tiny Lindale, Texas, about 40 miles east of Dallas, population 2,500.
Her parents were private investigators. "My parents didn't shelter me much. I grew up in a really great home and in church, but my parents had parties on the porch with Dad and everybody playing music and drinking beer, and I was just exposed to that lifestyle. They never tried to shelter me from that so I saw a lot early in my life."
On Kerosene, released when she was just 22, Lambert showed a maturity most artists work years for.
"People used to call me an old soul, and I think I was, and now I'm kind of catching up with it. When I started writing Kerosene I was 17 years old and I didn't really have a lot of life to write about. But being on the road for three years has taught me a lot. I think on this album I really wrote more from my point of view, rather than taking other people's perspective."
Lambert, like her lyrics, is thoughtful and complex: "Sweet like a kiss, sharp like a razor blade," as one line goes. She's a contradiction: A girly-girl who killed a deer with a bow last November; a sophisticated songwriter and accomplished guitarist who'll be only 24 on her next birthday.
In 2003, Lambert got national exposure when she came in third on the first season of Nashville Star, a country version of American Idol. She says losing that contest was a blessing.
"I was 19 years old and I wasn't ready to make a record in a month. For me, I got all the exposure of the winner that season because I was on all nine episodes, but I didn't have to have that big yellow sticker - Nashville Star Winner - on every album from here on out, and I also had plenty of time. I waited two years to put an album out and he (winner Buddy Jewell) had to put one out in a month. So I think it was a blessing I had time to build it.
"I think you can't really put your heart and soul into something you're rushed to do, especially in the creative sense. To me music is something that's very personal and that you really need to take time (with) and if you win, you don't have that time. When you're in such a rush, you maybe settle for a couple of songs you don't believe in."
Initially the picturesque blonde worried that her record label might want her to do just that: Sing songs she didn't like or believe in.
"I was ready with my whole spiel. Luckily, I had a great label. I signed with Sony and they just said, 'We signed you to be a writer, we signed you for who you are, now go and make your album.'
"It gave me a lot of confidence, but it was also a lot of pressure to do it right. I got to do this my way, but what if it's not successful? About a month before the album came out, I remember just being scared to death. Luckily, it worked."
Worked is an understatement. Kerosene debuted at No. 1 on the country charts, sold more than a million copies, earned her a Grammy nod, and was named one of the best albums of the year by The New York Times, Rolling Stone and Blender magazine.
And Kerosene's clever lyrics and catchy melodies helped Lambert distinguish herself in a country music landscape that seems to be littered with pretty blondes lately. She set herself apart from Carrie Underwood, Kellie Pickler and Taylor Swift, she said, by carving herself out a niche as the country-rocker girl.
"Every one of us has a different style," Lambert said. "I think I do something a lot different in my music and on stage. I sing about things other girls don't tend to sing about; drinking and cheating and real life situations and I think that sets me apart. And I have a tattoo," she laughs.
"It's a tough road, though. Everybody's looking at you and waiting to see who's going to have the next hit. I think I have more of an edge than the other girls, but thank God there's room for all of us."
Monday, June 18, 2007
Toby Keith Interview
Photo: Toby on USO Tour, 2007
Published in the Palm Beach Post
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Toby Keith called his new album "Big Dog Daddy," and yes, it's more bravado from the brash country star.
Keith, a pitchman for Ford trucks, was asked to come down to Dallas to unveil the new F-450 Super Duty. "I walked up on it, got in it and one of the Ford guys said, 'Well, what do you think, Big Dog?' And I said, 'This is a Big Dog Daddy.'"
The line got such a laugh that Keith decided to write a song around it.
Of course, Keith being Keith ("How Do You Like Me Now," "I Wanna Talk About Me"), he made it a first-person chest-thumper about a guy who's "got 'em all screaming from here to Cincinnati."
For the first time in his career, Keith produced most of the new disc on his own, and "Big Dog Daddy" might be the first in any musical genre to include a song about an oil pump jack.
Released on his own Show Dog Nashville Records, it finds Keith returning to more familiar territory after experimenting with horns and R&B rhythms on his last record. The first single, "High Maintenance Woman," is No. 7 on the Billboard chart.
The 45-year-old Oklahoman spoke with The Associated Press recently about his music, his politics and why it's not such a good idea to bounce song ideas off your spouse.
AP: This is the first album you've produced on your own. Is that something you've wanted to do for a while?
Keith: I never thought I had the time or energy. I'm at a point in my life where it's time to do it. If I had gotten halfway in and felt I didn't need to be doing this, I would called a friend and got them to do it.
But it went well.
AP: Do you ask your family for their opinion on songs?
Keith: Once it's done, I'll play it for them. But I never let it influence what songs I record. What if you play something racy for your wife? To me, that muddies the process in what you're trying to do creatively. If I play a song like "High Maintenance Woman" about a guy stalking a woman, and my family goes "I don't know about that" — and I don't record it — I'm not being very true to my music.
AP: Are they surprised by your choices sometimes?
Keith: Even in your own family, you're not going to make everybody happy. Even my closest fans are not going to like everything I do.
AP: You recorded two songs by outside writers on this album, "Love Me if You Can" and "White Rose." That's rare for you.
Keith: Both are so damn good I couldn't resist. They're very well-written. I've been sitting on "White Rose" for five or six years. Craig Wiseman wrote "Love Me if You Can," and the amazing thing is it's exactly where I stand, word for word. I couldn't have written it any truer. When one of those comes along, once in a while you have to record it. I think your ego is too big if you don't.
AP: You do a lot of shows for the troops overseas. Have you ever had any close calls?
Keith: I set the standard for other artists to go there. I want the troops coming home and talking about where they saw me and they can't believe I was there. Maybe other acts will be inspired to do it, but I don't want to scare them off either.
AP: How close to battle were you?
Keith: We spent three or four nights on the Pakistani border in small tents. Most artists have to worry about mortar attacks. We stayed at a camp where you had to worry about getting hit in the head by sniper fire. But you don't have to do what I do. You can go to the green zones or stay in the country and go to the military hospitals.
AP: Do you consider yourself a traditional country singer?
Keith: I'm one of the only guys who've sold as many records as I have in our business and never had a crossover hit. Tim (McGraw) and Faith (Hill) and Shania (Twain) and Keith (Urban) and Kenny (Chesney) have all had crossover hits. I've sold 30 million records and written enough songs to be in the 50 million airplays club, which is the Bee Gees, Elton John, John Lennon. And not one time have I ever had a pop spin. So the pop world doesn't view me that way. I take a lot of pride in that.
Keith: I'm one of the only guys who've sold as many records as I have in our business and never had a crossover hit. Tim (McGraw) and Faith (Hill) and Shania (Twain) and Keith (Urban) and Kenny (Chesney) have all had crossover hits. I've sold 30 million records and written enough songs to be in the 50 million airplays club, which is the Bee Gees, Elton John, John Lennon. And not one time have I ever had a pop spin. So the pop world doesn't view me that way. I take a lot of pride in that.
AP: People view you as being very outspoken. What do you think is the biggest misconception about you?
Keith: I supported the ousting of the Taliban (in Afghanistan) 100 percent. My 9/11 song ("Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue") was all about that. But the far left won't allow that to be. They have to plug me into every pro-war thing they can find. I'm not a political person (Keith describes himself as a lifelong Democrat more interested in "right or wrong" than "left or right"). I get painted that way. I never said I support the Iraq war, but I never said I didn't either.
Keith: I supported the ousting of the Taliban (in Afghanistan) 100 percent. My 9/11 song ("Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue") was all about that. But the far left won't allow that to be. They have to plug me into every pro-war thing they can find. I'm not a political person (Keith describes himself as a lifelong Democrat more interested in "right or wrong" than "left or right"). I get painted that way. I never said I support the Iraq war, but I never said I didn't either.
AP: Do you support the war?
Keith: That war has been over since 48 hours after it started. Our military disarmed them in two days. The dictator has been ousted. They (Iraq) need to step up with their oil money and fund it on their own. I don't say we shouldn't be in there. I say we should be there and step back and let them have their own fight. The U.S. should stand back and make sure the Syrians and the Iranians and the Saudi Arabians don't get involved and allow it to unfold.
Keith: That war has been over since 48 hours after it started. Our military disarmed them in two days. The dictator has been ousted. They (Iraq) need to step up with their oil money and fund it on their own. I don't say we shouldn't be in there. I say we should be there and step back and let them have their own fight. The U.S. should stand back and make sure the Syrians and the Iranians and the Saudi Arabians don't get involved and allow it to unfold.
Check out Toby's fanclub online at http://www.tobykeith.com/.
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Country Music News, Gossip, Commentary: Show Dog Records, Brad Paisley
TOBY KEITH'S SHOW DOG RECORDS
TOBY Keith fans will want to check out the website for his new Show Dog Records label at http://www.showdogrecords.com/ . You'll find all of the latest TOBY news, including upcoming events.
TOBY Keith fans will want to check out the website for his new Show Dog Records label at http://www.showdogrecords.com/ . You'll find all of the latest TOBY news, including upcoming events.
Also on the site are links to Show Dog Records artists -- Rushlow Harris, Broken Bridges, Lindsey Haun and Flynnville Train.
BRAD PAISLEY
From the Equestrian News Release Wire
FORT WORTH, Texas —The American Paint Horse Association (APHA) recently awarded renowned country music entertainer Charlie Daniels with its Legendary Achievement Award.
Daniels was honored for his work over the past 25 years in breeding American Paint Horses and spotlighting their beauty, versatility and athletic talents. APHA also issued him a lifetime membership certificate.
Daniels raises horses on his Twin Pines Ranch in Tennessee.
Daniels raises horses on his Twin Pines Ranch in Tennessee.
Photo: Charlie Daniels & Brenda Lee.
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