Keith will be honored Oct. 18 for his hits "Courtesy of the Red, White And Blue (The Angry American)," "Who's Your Daddy?," "As Good As I Once Was" and "God Love Her."
Keith and Wiseman were chosen by their fellow songwriters. The 42-year-old, 5,000-member group bills itself as the world's largest not-for-profit songwriters' trade organization.
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, Paisley, Swift to perform at CMT awards
Apr 24, 2009 10:00 am PDT
Toby Keith, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts and Taylor Swift will perform during the Country Music Television awards show June 17. The cable channel announced the first round of performers this week. More will be added late...
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 ...
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...