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Country Icon Toby Keith Dies at 62 After Stomach Cancer Battle
The “Beer For My Horses” singer was diagnosed in 2021.
Despite the playful title, the lyrics penned by Keith and and frequent collaborator Scotty Emerick hinted at a a dark underbelly to the American dream, with images of people being shot, abused, someone blowing up a building and stealing a car. Following the death of his father — a Navy veteran — in a traffic accident in 2001 and the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Keith channeled his rage and emotion into the controversial hit “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)” from his 2022 Unleashed album. The entrepreneurial singer also lent his name a chain of Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill restaurants, with outlets from Oklahoma to New York, Michigan, Las Vegas, Arizona, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Cincinnati and several other states.
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