b'Concert Page Just the FactsSponsored by Cowtown BootsPhoenixTempeTucson TOBY KEITH On July 8, 1961, Toby Keith Covel was born in Toby rose to96.3 Real Country welcomes Toby Clinton, Oklahoma, to Carolyn and Hubert Covel. fame when heKeiths Thats Country Bro 2019 Tour to He has a sister and a brother.launched a songthe Laughlin Event Center in LaughlinThe family lived in Fort Smith, Arkansas, for a few yearstitled Courtesyon November 9th and to the AVA when Keith was in grade school but moved to Moore,of the Red,Amphitheater in Tucson on November 10th.Oklahoma, a suburb of Oklahoma City, when he wasWhite, and still young. He got his first guitar at the age of eight.Blue in 2002.Before the family moved to Moore, he visited hisHis next hits grandmother during the summers. His grandmotherincluded Who\'s Keith made his acting debut in 2006, starring in the owned Billie Garner\'s Supper Club in Fort Smith,Your Daddyfilm Broken Bridges. He co-starred with comedian where Keith became interested in the musicians whoand Beer forRodney Carrington in the 2008 film Beer for My came there to play. He did odd jobs around the suppermy Horses. Horses, inspired by his song of the same name.club and started getting up on the bandstand to play He was named Keith performed on a series of television with the band. the Countryadvertisements for Telecom USA for that company\'sKeith attended Highland West Junior High and MooreMusic Academydiscount long-distance telephone High School, where he played defensive end on theEntertainerservice 10-10-220.football team. Keith graduated from Moore Highof the Year inChosen to be inducted into School and worked as a derrick hand in the oil fields2002 and 2003.the Oklahoma Hall of Fame on working his way up to become an operations manager.Keith made an appearance at the firstNovember 8, 2007. Toby Keith played defensive end for the 1980 OklahomaTotal Nonstop Action Wrestling (thenKeith received the "Colbert Bump" Sooners but never saw the field before dropping outNWA-TNA) weekly pay-per-viewwhen he appeared on Comedy to play semi-professional football in OKC. He playedon June 19, 2002, where his playingCentral\'s The Colbert Report. He defensive end with the Oklahoma City Drillers whileof "Courtesy of the Red, White andholds the distinction of being the continuing to perform with his band.Blue" was interrupted by Jeff Jarrett.only musical artist to have receivedAt the age of 20, he and his friends Scott Webb, KeithHe would later enter the Gauntlet fora five-star rating from Stephen Cory, David "Yogi" Vowell, and Danny Smith, withthe Gold main event, suplexingColbert on iTunes. Keith furthered a few others, formed the Easy Money Band, whichJarrett and eliminating himthis connection when he appeared in played at local bars.from the match. Colbert\'s 2008 Christmas special as a hunter.He has appeared in FordKeith also made an appearance as a musical Keith married his longtimecommercials, singing songsguest on the October 27, 2011 episode ofpartner and friend, Triciasuch as "Ford Truck Man"The Colbert Report. Lucus on March 24, 1984.and "Field Trip (Look Again)"In early 2009, Keith also established a line When he married Lucus hewhile driving Ford trucks. of clothing, TK Steelman.adopted her young daughter On March 24, 2001, whichKeith participated in the Comedy Central Shelley Covel Rowland. was incidentally Toby andRoast of Larry the Cable Guy, which aired The couple was blessedTricias 17th wedding anniversary, Keith lost his father,on March 14, 2009.with children Krystal KeithHubert K. Covel Jr., in a car accident on InterstateOn October 29, 2011, Keith appeared on Fox LaDawn Covel Sandubrae35. Keiths father was driving his car on the interstateChannel\'s Huckabee with former Arkansas Governor and and a son Stelen Keithwhen he was bumped by another vehicle and was sentMike Huckabee. He played "Bullets in the Gun" and he Covel. He is also now the grandfather across the center median where he was struck head- joined with Huckabee\'s house band to play a song at to Shelleys three children. on by a charter bus owned by Rodriguez Transports.the end of the show.The driver of the car who hit Covel fled the scene. SixOverall, Keith has released eighteen studio albums,In the early 1990s, Keith went to Nashville,years later, the Covel family was awarded $2.8 milliontwo Christmas albums, six compilation albums,Tennessee, where he hung out and busked on Musicfor the wrongful death of H.K. Covel after policeand four greatest hits packages.Row and at a place called Houndogs. He distributeddiscovered that the bus was not properly equipped In his illustrious career, Toby Keith has only released copies of a demo tape the band had made to the manywith airbrakes, and the driver did not have the propertwo radio singles he didn\'t write American Riderecord companies in the city. There was no interestlicense to drive a commercial charter bus. and Red Solo Cup.by any of the record labels, and Keith returned home On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine feeling depressed.listed Toby Keith among hundreds of artists whoseA flight attendant, who was dating the drummeroriginal material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 from the band, gave a copy of Keith\'s demo tape toUniversal Studios fire. Harold Shedd, a Mercury Records executive, while he was traveling on a flight she was working on. Shedd enjoyed what he heard, went to see Keith performThe July 15, 2013, live and then signed him to a recording contract withedition of Forbes Mercury. His debut single, "Should\'ve Been a Cowboy",magazine features went to number 1 on the Billboard Hot Country SongsKeith on the cover chart in 1993, in addition to reaching number 93 onwith the caption the Billboard Hot 100.This gave him more energy to"Country Music\'s $500 come out with more resounding songs such as Wish IMillion Man." Keith\'s Didnt Know Now and He Aint Worth Missing. music career and hisSigned to DreamWorks Records Nashville in 1998,various other business Keith released his breakthrough single "How Do Youventures have made Like Me Now?" that year. This song, the title track to When DreamWorks closed in 2005, Keith foundedhim one of the his 1999 album, was the number one country songthe label Show Dog Nashville, which merged withwealthiest celebrities of 2000, and one of several chart-toppers during hisUniversal South Records to become Show Dog- in the United States.tenure on DreamWorks Nashville. 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