Toby Keith News

Toby Keith voted songwriter/artist of the decade

Sep 16, 2009 1:00 am PDT

County music star Toby Keith has been voted songwriter/artist of the decade by the Nashville Songwriters Association International. Keith will be honored Oct. 18 for his hits "Courtesy of the Red, White And Blue (The Angry American)," "Wh...

Toby Keith puts "American Ride" in high gear

Jul 13, 2009 7:00 pm PDT

Toby Keith is "about half done" with his next album, "American Ride," which he plans to release this fall. But the album's title-track first single is already taking its ride onto country radio and up the charts. "I've only ever d...

Keith livid about Rolling Stone story by Hawke

Apr 6, 2009 1:00 pm PDT

Ethan Hawke might want to avoid crossing paths with Toby Keith in the near future. The country star lit into the actor for an article Hawke wrote in the new issue of Rolling Stone about Kris Kristofferson. In it, Hawke refers to a blowup ...

Toby Keith praises Obama

Aug 19, 2008 12:00 pm PDT

Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one big, patriotic country star. Toby Keith, perhaps best known to non-country audiences for his post-Sept. 11 song "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue," says he's a Democrat, an...

Toby Keith fundraiser brings in $709,000

Jun 17, 2008 3:00 pm PDT

Toby Keith's annual fundraiser for families of children with cancer raised $709,000 this year. The money goes to Ally's House, a charity started after original band member Scott Webb's 2-year-old daughter, Allison, died of kidney cancer i...