Lon is a Nashville insider, well known by the stars. I can’t wait.Each week, a charted country star joins Lon Helton to count down the week’s Top 30. But I will see the fans sooner than later. He added, “I am looking forward to spending this time with my family. I need time to breathe, recover and relax,” the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame member wrote at the time. I’ve spent the last 6 months receiving chemo, radiation and surgery. “Last fall I was diagnosed with stomach cancer. Toby Keith revealed his cancer diagnosis with fans in early June. He wrote a chart-topping hit every year for 20 consecutive years, including “How Do You Like Me Now?!,” “Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue (The Angry American),” “I Love This Bar,” “Beer For My Horses,” and “As Good As I Once Was.” Toby Keith Photo by Erika Goldring, Getty Images for BMI With 32 No.1 singles and 40 million albums sold, Toby Keith is regarded as one of country music’s biggest hitmakers. I didn’t know if I’d make it as an artist, but I knew if I wrote as good as the next guy, that somebody might sing one of my songs.” Something in my gut, down in my core, said that’s what I wanted to do. “They weren’t artists that covered music. “When you get older and you look back at your cassette tapes or your CD, it’s like everybody that rocked country, R&B, whatever it was, the artists that I had were songwriters,” he continued. I always felt that the songwriting was the most important part of this whole industry.” Toby Keith accepts an award onstage from BMI VP of Creative Nashville, Clay Bradley and president and CEO of BMI Mike O’Neill Photo by Erika Goldring, Getty Images for BMI They’ve been so great to me as a songwriter, because I knew that even if I didn’t make it as an artist, that maybe somebody would cut my songs. “I said, ‘What does that mean?’ They said, ‘Well, you wrote these songs - you gotta get affiliated.’ So, since 1990 or ’91, I have been affiliated with the greatest organization in the music business, and that’s BMI. “When I got to Nashville, they said, ‘You got to get affiliated,’” Keith shared from the stage during the star-studded event. Toby Keith joins an elite list of songwriters who have earned the BMI Icon Award, including Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Dolly Parton, Kris Kristofferson, Loretta Lynn, Hank Williams, Jr. It’s just one of those things, but it was really nice to see if had any power in vocals left and we did alright.”ĭuring the interview, the Oklahoma native also opened up about receiving the prestigious honor from BMI, his latest single, writing songs, and more.Ī post shared by Country Now evening also included a tribute to Keith from his frequent collaborators Dean Dillon and Scotty Emerick, who sang “A Little Too Late.”
Let’s make the grand slam.’ I said ‘I don’t know’ and finally everybody was like ‘go do it.’ I said ‘alright,’ so I did it and hell it was on Good Morning America, it was all over the internet, it was on Billboard. “Finally, late in the night, came over and he’s like ‘look, everybody in there is wanting you to get up and you and me have done ‘Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay’ at three of my bars, this is my fourth one. The 61-year-old shared that he caved into the peer pressure and decided to join Ruby on stage. Don’t miss on #cmtHot20 this weekend! /vvFuGZlzEs- CMT Hot 20 Countdown November 18, 2022 The Big Dog Daddy is BACK, and we have his exclusive first interview in a whole year just before being honored with one of the most prestigious awards in Music City. I’m an ambassador… one of the ambassadors of the Breeders’ Cup and we had all gone to dinner and they kept asking me, you know Jeff Ruby’s got a lot of Steakhouses and I’ve known him a long time… he kept asking me to get up here and I was like ‘ah you know, I said I think I’m just going to stay here with my friends,’ Keith recalled. “It was good! I was over there for Breeders’ Cup. The pop-up performance marked Keith’s first time on stage since his diagnosis. While his touring plans still remain unknown, Keith recently got a taste of live music once again when he performed a surprise, 60-minute set at Jeff Ruby’s Steakhouse in Lexington, Kentucky. “It’s pretty debilitating to have to go through all that, but as long as everything stays hunky-dory then we’ll look at something good in the future.” I need a little bit of time to just rest up and heal up,” he explained. “Yeah, I’m thinking about… I’m thinking about getting back to fightin’ shape. You heard it here first! has plans to get back on the road after battling cancer 👊 More details on his road to recovery this weekend only on #cmtHot20! /3p3Rs5a1XM- CMT Hot 20 Countdown November 19, 2022
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