He's a native of nearby Moore, the Oklahoma town recently leveled by a tornado--which narrowly missed his house and hit his sister's he'll host a benefit concert for the town in July with Garth Brooks and Willie Nelson, among others.
He planned to go to college and study petroleum engineering. The inevitable bust followed, and Keith scrambled for part-time work as a bricklayer. They found more gigs in Texas and started making regular road trips. To cut costs, they slept two to a room in seedy motels.
One by one, his friends dropped out, and Keith made a fateful business decision: He replaced them with musicians who'd play for a salary instead of a share in the take. Getting a record deal was a different story, as rejections piled up, most notably from one flunky who told Keith his songs needed to "go back to the woodshed.
Keith's lyrics have always been jingoistic. The son of a veteran, he neither apologizes nor minces words. After Sept. His self-titled debut hit stores in and quickly went platinum. The album contained four No. Releasing his major label debut at age 32, Keith made up for lost time. Starting in , Keith released a new album every year through , with each selling at least , copies. In Shedd launched Polydor Nashville and took Keith with him.
But Shedd was eventually succeeded by Luke Lewis, who didn't share his predecessor's enthusiasm. After two more songs were rejected, Keith went on the attack, displaying a shrewdness and willingness to bet on himself that's remained a constant since the oilfields of Oklahoma. The saga wasn't over. In the end Keith decided to stop being a well-paid employee of others and instead go into business for himself.
In exchange for giving Universal a half-stake in his next album, plus a greatest hits compilation, Keith would be free to open his own label, Show Dog. Universal would distribute it. Perhaps mindful of those precedents, Keith decided to share staff with another nascent label, Big Machine, run by an up-and-comer named Scott Borchetta.
The singer bought a building in Nashville to house both labels. It was one of the great investments in recent music history. Chuck Cannon, Life, songwriters, Toby Keith. Please log in again.
The login page will open in a new tab. After logging in you can close it and return to this page. Share 0. He followed that up with 20 No. Outside of the country world, Keith is better known for his politics than his songwriting.
Onstage at the Trump concert, he thanked Obama for his service. Country music has long championed red-state ideals, but Keith has demonstrated a special taste for controversial fare. Even Keith is cagey when it comes to Trump.
There would seem to be a natural affinity between Keith and Trump. The album didn't fare as well as his previous, with the title track peaking at 29 on the Billboard country music charts. The album was released in , the same year Keith was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In , Keith signed on to perform at Donald Trump 's pre-inauguration concert at the Lincoln Memorial on January However, he said his appearance was for the country, not in support of a politician or political party.
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