{"id":74311,"date":"2024-02-08T06:09:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T06:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/08\/toby-keith-dead-at-62\/"},"modified":"2024-02-08T06:09:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T06:09:26","slug":"toby-keith-dead-at-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/08\/toby-keith-dead-at-62\/","title":{"rendered":"Toby Keith dead at 62"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The country singer’s official website announced his death Monday. Keith had previously been reported as battling stomach cancer since 2022.<\/p>\n
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\u2014 Toby Keith (@tobykeith) February 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[<\/span><\/svg>text<\/a><\/b>]<\/span><\/span>Toby passed peacefully last night on February 5th, surrounded by his family. He fought his fight with grace and courage. Please respect the privacy of his family at this time.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

* Keith began his recording career in 1993 and had success on the country charts but wasn’t able to break through to a larger audience
* in 2002, he recorded “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)” a reaction to the 9\/11 attacks, which featured lines like “the eagle will fly man, it’s gonna be hell\/ When you hear mother freedom start ringin’ her bell” and “we’ll put a boot in your ass \/ It’s the American way”. This spurred him on to a much higher level of success with several number 1 albums
* Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks called the song “ignorant, and it makes country music sound ignorant”. In response, Keith used a backdrop at his concerts showing a shopped photo of Maines being hugged by Saddam Hussein
* Another song, “Beer for My Horses”, released around the same time, seemed to advocate lynching and extrajudicial police shootings, containing the lines “Take all the rope in Texas, find a tall oak tree \/ Round up all of them bad boys, hang them high in the street” and “It’s time the long arm of the law put a few more in the ground \/ Send them all to their maker and he’ll settle ’em down”
* He was also instrumental in getting a young singer named Taylor Swift<\/a> a record contract
* Also he was happy to play at Donald Trump’s inaguration in 2017<\/p>\n

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Honestly if you weren’t around for it, it’s impossible to state how emblematic this guy was of the utter rockheaded stupidity that fomented in the wake of 9\/11 and the George W Bush years. This hustling clown was held up by serious people as an avatar of what a real American should be. Good riddance <\/p>\n<\/div>\n