Toby Keith Pulls Freeper's Punch at Dixie Chicks

Entertainment Weekly (login required) ^ | October 31, 2003 | Chris Willman

[L.N. Smithee]

Toby Keith, in an interview published in the current issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine, speaking of his public feuding with the we're-not-country-anymore group the Dixie Chicks, says the following:

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But it's his feud with ''miserable person'' Maines that's earned Keith the most attention lately. ''She said my song makes country music look ignorant and you've gotta have more tact and be responsible,'' says Keith. ''They had a song called 'Earl Must Die' or something ['Goodbye Earl']. How hypocritical is that? How can you come off of a song with the message that if your husband abuses you, you're supposed to kill him and stick him in the trunk, or whatever -- I never heard it, but people told me about it -- and then call me ignorant for saying, 'Hey, you flew these planes into these buildings. We're angry about it, and we're gonna come get you'?''

Despite the F.U.T.K.-wear, Keith has no intention of lighting up Maines' world anymore. Last summer, his crew ''put up on our big screen an Internet picture somebody [concocted] of her and Saddam. The crowd went nuts. It was funny for a few nights, and then it started eating at me. I thought, You know what? I don't have that mean of a heart, to be able to kick somebody in the crotch like that. Just because she's young and spouted off, that's a little hardcore. So I put an end to it.''

Toby Keith -- the let-bygones-be-bygones, not-so-angry American? Well, maybe. But also, he adds, ''if I'm gonna do anything, it's gotta be funnier than that.'' In other words: Watch your a--, Natalie.

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[archy]

Like his new song too. Heard it a few times - something about "I love this bar."

Video *here*.

[KC Burke]

Toby loves to do a video that pooks fun at his own lyics and sentiments...wait until you see the "I Love this Bar" video before you make a final judgement.

His new CD was pushed back to November 4th release.

When I saw him live at the end of August, he was still expressing his strong sentiment about the war and 9/11, but he was purposefully avoiding mentioning the DixChix even though the crowd wanted him to knock them. He is a class act as far as concert behavior goes. He also doesn't portray himself as any sort of well behaved guy in his past. He as a "bus song" (one that he doesn't record), about an evening with Willie Nelson and how getting on Willie's travel bus is like getting in the heart of a bong. Something like, We're Not Ever Going to Smoke on Willie's Bus Again. This guy is headed for even more status as far as I'm concerned and I'm not even a big country fan in normal listening preference.

I recommend catching him live.

[Pippin]

Toby can beat the pants off those Doxie Chumps!

[bushfamfan]

Willie Nelson's a big Demonrat.

[AppyPappy]

What does that mean??

Forgive Us, Toby Keith

[tarawa]

The name of the song is "I'll never do weed with Willie again", and it is hilarious.....

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

(I *LOVE* TOBY!)
BTTT

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

[philman_36]

Toby loves to do a video that pooks fun at his own lyics and sentiments...wait until you see the "I Love this Bar" video before you make a final judgement.
The video is the very thing that I thought was stereotypical. I probably don't/didn't understand the sentiment Toby was trying to get at.

[talleyman]

"I'll never do weed with Willie again"

LOL!!
IMHO, Willie is Willie - "been there, done that, sold the T-shirt, and the IRS got the money."
"My heroes have always been cowboys..."
My favorite TK is "...Beer for My Horses."

[freekitty]

Those "Doxie Chumps" are so over.

[Pippin]

Hope so! :O)

[Redbob]

Naw, the real Cap'n Crunch was a War Eagle, then a Dolphin!

[NCC-1701]

My wife and I have. Once was at the Flameworthy Awards in Nashville in April and the other was here in Memphis last Saturday. We were not dissapointed. In Memphis, he didn't even bring up the chix. His presentation isn't high energy like Tim McGraw, but he doesn't need to be. The Pyramid was rocking. He did what he called "bus songs" and one was about the Taliban. I wish he'd release that one. It was funny like "I like this bar" is. If anyone want two good hours, go see Toby. You, too, won't be dissapointed.

[L.N. Smithee]

That's the one I had in mind, and the one that was featured in the Entertainment Weekly mag for which the DixChix posed nude.

[Cuttnhorse]

Beer for my Horses...for some strange reason, my favorite too.

[txhurl]

I may have to take up listening to country music over this.

Not.

[archy]

My wife and I have. Once was at the Flameworthy Awards in Nashville in April and the other was here in Memphis last Saturday. We were not dissapointed. In Memphis, he didn't even bring up the chix. His presentation isn't high energy like Tim McGraw, but he doesn't need to be. The Pyramid was rocking. He did what he called "bus songs" and one was about the Taliban. I wish he'd release that one. It was funny like "I like this bar" is. If anyone want two good hours, go see Toby. You, too, won't be dissapointed.

You are invited to come catch me picking my banjo around Beale some weekend; I have not run across so many others so armed that there's much chance of mistaking me for another one, but if you should run across a feller picking a little shortneck 4-string tenor banjo, that's me.

I make no promise you won't be disappointed, however.

-archy-/-

[archy]

I may have to take up listening to country music over this.

Not.

I make a serious differentation between country, country-western, and Nashville Top 40. I would be glad to offer you some examples of the first two, but I suspect that I Love This Bar is going to end up one of the all-time greats, to be requested to a fare-thee-well.

-archy-/-

[Prolifeconservative]

Maybe some "Damn-wear" is order.

DUMB-ASS-Maimes/Natalie.

just trying to help Tobie....