Toby Keith's Daughter Shares Dad's Reaction to Wedding Song

Krystal Keith, 'Daddy, Dance With Me': Toby Keith's Daughter Shares Dad's Reaction to Wedding Song

Krystal Keith has just released the poignant new single, "Daddy, Dance With Me," from her self-titled debut EP. The song, written as a surprise for her dad, country superstar Toby Keith, so that the pair could dance to it on her wedding day, left everyone at the reception in tears -- except for her famous father (pictured above with Krystal, left, and Tricia, his wife of 29 years).

"He did not cry," Krystal tells The Boot. "We had 65 people in Cabo [for the wedding], and every single person was completely bawling. He walked off and my husband said, 'That didn't even get you a little bit? You didn't cry at all?' He said, 'I almost shed a tear, but I'm a professional.' He's in control of his emotions."

While Toby managed to keep his feelings under wraps, Krystal reveals her dad was completely taken aback by the sweet song. "He was shocked that I pulled it off," she explains. "You can't pull anything over on him. Every surprise party, every time we try to pull a prank on him -- I challenge somebody to prank him because you just can't do it. So the fact that I kind of pulled one over on him surprised him."

Krystal currently lives in Oklahoma with her husband, who works in the energy industry, "It's fabulous," she gushes about married life. "We've been together nine years, so almost a decade. I met him my first month of freshman year of college. He moved here for college, he was going to OU. He grew up about 30 minutes north of my hometown, Norman, until he was 13, and then he came back to Oklahoma for college."

Krystal's EP, which contains three additional songs, is available now. Her album,Whiskey & Lace, will be released later this year.

Toby Keith’s Golf Classic Celebrates 10 Years

Toby Keith’s Golf Classic Celebrates 10 Years

Toby Keith photo courtesy of Show Dog-Universal Music.

Toby Keith will celebrate 10 years of The Toby Keith & Friends Golf Classic on May 10-11 at Belmar Golf Club in Norman, Oklahoma. The event benefits OK Kids Korral, a cost-free home-away-from home for pediatric cancer patients, and will welcome even more celebrity golfers to the lineup. It will also include morning and afternoon shotgun starts for the first time in the event’s history.

“Our tenth year event is really a ‘thank you’ to all of those people who have supported us over the years,” said Toby Keith. “Ten years goes by fast when you are working toward a goal this big.”

The 10th anniversary of the golf classic will feature an evening of entertainment, fine food and live and silent auctions before a day of golf. Over the years, funds from the event have supported hundreds of pediatric cancer patients, helped with renovations to the Oncology Unit at The Children’s Hospital and will now go directly toward completing construction on OK Kids Korral.

“Our goal is to make life a little easier for families of children diagnosed with cancer,” Juliet Nees-Bright, Executive Director of The Toby Keith Foundation, said. “They are battling for their lives and we want to join their fight.”

The Golf Classic raises most of its funds from its live and silent auctions.  Notable items up for bid this year include tickets to the ACM Awards, naming rights to a room in OK Kids Korral, a TPC Sawgrass Golf Getaway in Ponte Vedre Beach, Fla., a Los Angeles Talk Show ticket package and passes to the Emmy Awards. Silent auction items include memorabilia from Taylor Swift,Charlie Daniels, Jimmy Buffet, Derek Jeter, Mia Hamm, Blake Griffin and Toby Keith himself.

Toby Keith Radio Popularity

Toby Keith Radio Popularity Makes Singer a 'Million-Air'

Toby Keith has often said that awards for his songwriting mean the most. The country superstar received more of those honors this week when he was recognized by performance rights organization Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) for several of his songs reaching more than 15 million airplays, including "How Do You Like Me Now," "Beer for My Horses," "She Never Cried in Front of Me," "God Love Her," "I Love This Bar" and "Who's Your Daddy."

This honor, known as the Million-air award, goes to songwriters, composers and publishers whose songs have had more than one million U.S. broadcast performances. Toby's awards were for both his songwriting and publishing endeavors.

"If you went back to the first pickup I had, there were three boxes of cassettes in there," Toby explains to The Boot of his love for songwriting. "There were probably 90 albums, and you would find seven or eight Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, four or five Charlie Daniels, some Roger Miller, Billy Joel, KISS, Elton John, Bob Seger, Hoyt Axton, Johnny Cash, the Eagles, Dolly Parton. As you look through that box at the music I listened to, the common denominator was that they were all singer/songwriters.

"I didn't set out to not buy the great stylists like George Strait, Travis Tritt, Conway Twitty, Elvis ... but subconsciously, I just gravitated toward singer/songwriters. I was more impressed and amazed and a bigger fan of those who wrote songs, no matter how famous they were. Those guys didn't get me going like a Hoyt Axton or somebody who wasn't as famous. Hoyt was amazing. There was a time when Willie wasn't famous, but he wrote "Crazy." I think that early bond to that element ... it was just some connection to people who express themselves through creative writing. It connected with me and I've never got very far from it."

Toby has reached more than 80 million airplays with songs he has written, according to Clay Bradley, BMI assistant vice president of writer/publisher relations. "We have been honored to work with him since early in his career, and he shows no signs of stopping now."

The BMI "Million-Air" Award is a mark of respect and praise for the longevity and resilience of a songwriter's music. One million continuous performances of a song of the average length of 3 minutes represents 5.7 years of continuous airplay. The 80 million performances represents 456 years of continuous airplay for Toby.

Suit over Toby Keith's rent dropped

The lawsuit against Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar and Grill over $121,000 in unpaid rent has been dismissed, developers of The Banks have confirmed.
The developers, the Dawson Co. and Carter, sued the bar in February, saying it had failed to pay three months’ rent.
Toby Keith’s replied via Facebook that it was withholding rent because developers violated the lease by allowing another live country music venue to open at The Banks.
“We’re pleased that we could settle this before the suit moved any further,” said Scott Stringer, executive vice president at Carter.
Stringer didn’t release details of the settlement, and attorneys for the bar couldn’t be reached Tuesday.
Toby Keith’s was the first tenant announced at the new riverfront development between Paul Brown Stadium and Great American Ball Park. The commercial space in the first phase is now 94 percent leased.
The bar, one of a dozen Toby Keith’s owned by Arizona businessman Frank Capri, remained open throughout the dispute.

 

Toby Keith touts hot women,

Toby Keith touts hot women, good booze, fast trucks — and Willie!

Country star Toby Keith wore the U.S. flag on his sleeve — and at times, as decoration on his guitar — during Thursday night’s raucous show at Fair Park’s Gexa Energy Pavilion, starting his 105-minute set with “American Ride” and “Made in America” and ending it with “American Soldier” and “Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue (the Angry American).” In between there were sparklers, flames and smoke, all bathed in the colors of Old Glory.

From Keith’s song choices, its’ pretty easy to discern what he loves most about America, in addition to the troops, of course: fast trucks (always a Ford, of course, in homage to his tour sponsor), hot women, good booze and Willie Nelson.

The drinking portion of the playlist included “Get Drunk and Be Somebody,” “I Love This Bar” and the ubiquitous “Red Solo Cup,” which inspired the evening’s most heartfelt (and in tune) sing along. For Willie, we had “Beer For My Horses” and “I’ll Never Smoke Weed With Willie Again,” which, as Keith noted, you’ll never hear on the radio, but you’ll hear at every one of his shows.

He combined the lures of women and booze on “Whiskey GirlÖ” and “I Like Girls That Drink Beer.” Being Toby, there was also just a hint of ego on display, in “I Wanna Talk About MeÖ,” “Who’s Your Daddy?” “As Good As I’ve Ever BeenÖ” and “How Do You Like Me Now?Ö”

The singer-songwriter was in terrific voice, and seemed in an introspective mood, spending much of the concert with his eyes closed, deep in the music. And you can’t doubt his sincerity or commitment to the troops – he brought service members onstage during “American Soldier,” and invited military and their families to “eat and drink on me” after the show at his new I Love This Bar & Grill inDallas.

One of the show’s highlights was the raunchy “Get Out of My Car” (the preceeding lyrics are “get out of your clothes or”), which featured band members doing their hilarious version of a redneck chorus line.

My only complaint: Keith’s such a great songwriter, and I wish he’d give more concert time to new material. His latest CD, 2011’s Clancy’s Tavern, has some gems, including the title song (which he didn’t sing, despite references to the tune in an opening video and via a giant neon sign), “I Need to Hear a Country Song” and “Club Zydeco Moon” that would have been fabulous additions to the show.

Toby Keith doesn’t let it rain on his Red Rock Resort parade

Toby Keith doesn’t let it rain on his Red Rock Resort parade

Some things in life are worth the wait. Add Toby Keith to that list. After a more than two-hour delay due to lightning and rain Saturday night, the country superstar hit the Red Rock Resort Amphitheater stage to a resounding roar from concertgoers at his “Live in Overdrive Tour” stop.
It was the same roar that erupted when it was announced shortly after 10 p.m. over the intercom system inside Red Rock Resort that the concert was still a go. (Incidentally, the Bloc Party and Santigold show at Boulevard Pool at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas also was delayed, while the All-American Rejects and Eve 6 continued as planned, except that fans weren’t allowed in the pool at Mandalay Bay Beach.)
The rain cooled the outside temperature in Summerlin, and Keith fans were ready to party with their red Solo cups and large, plastic white Red Rock Resort sippy cups filled with drinks and flashing-light “ice cubes” by tour sponsor Belvedere vodka and its attractive and friendly staff. Despite the delay, the crowd was more than 95 percent retained post-evacuation, and the mix of cowboys, cowgirls, beach boys and clubgoers was surprisingly free of public intoxication (at least in this journalist’s immediate area).
The evening was everything one would expect from a concert by Keith, whose Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar and Grill is at Harrah’s: an energetic, yet chill party atmosphere; a lot of No. 1 hits (he’s had 22 of them, so far); an, ahem, sprinkling of F-bombs (despite there being children in the audience); and a big, heaping and unapologetic dose of patriotism from the conservative Democrat turned Independent. However, not many boots, chaps and cowboy hats, surprisingly.
The set list included “American Life,” “Beers Ago,” “I Wanna Talk About Me,” “Whiskey Girl” (with opening act Brantley Gilbert), “Who’s Your Daddy?” “Red Solo Cup,” “As Good As I Once Was,” “I Love This Bar,” “Should’ve Been a Cowboy,” “How Do You Like Me Now?!” and “A Little Less Talk and a Lot More Action.” Keith slowed it down with a ballad for his encore, pulled a young man onstage who held up an American flag sign that included the words “Coast Guard Sandoval” and ended the night with “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (the Angry American).”
Two hilarious songs that will never be recorded were two highlights of the evening: “Smoking Weed With Willie Nelson” and “Get Out of Your Clothes, or Get Out of My Car.” The often-controversial and outspoken Keith kept his political views in check for the night, instead giving fans what they needed -- a big party after waiting more than two hours, and he delivered. Keith thanked firefighters and the military (and their families) for their service and sacrifice and toasted to “whiskey for my men and beer for my horses.”
The lightning and rain put the kibosh on Gilbert, but Keith graciously invited his opener onstage for a few songs, and the audience happily received the singer, who showed off his guns in a black tank top. One brilliant stage prop: Keith’s microphone stand included a holder for his red Solo cup. Filler up!

Krystal Keith Gives Props to Dad Toby for Normal Childhood

Krystal Keith Gives Props to Dad Toby for Normal Childhood

TKO Artist Management Toby Keith's daughter Krystal may have grown up connected to the celebrity world with a rich and famous dad, but she says things around the Keith house in Oklahoma were actually as normal as could be. In fact, Krystal says most of the time her dad was so diligent about making time for his kids that they never even knew when he was away on tour.

"My dad made sure that we didn't notice when he was gone," Krystal tells California country radio station K-FROG. "He would always make time for us and was always there when we needed him. We never missed out on "Tickle Time" with him. That was our special thing. I can't recall a time when he wasn't there."

Though her dad racked up plenty of chart-topping hits and awards during the years she was growing up, Krystal says she didn't really get any flack from fellow students about her famous father being on the radio. "Most of the kids did not know that my father was Toby Keith, and even if they did, they would not make such a big deal out of it because going to school in Oklahoma was not like going to school in Nashville where everyone wants to meet someone famous."

Krystal is following in Dad's footsteps and has been busy working on her upcoming debut album, which will come out on Toby's Show Dog-Universal record label. The project will be produced by Toby and Mark Wright, and it won't be the first time the two have worked together professionally. The brunette beauty actually teamed up with her father in 2004 to cut a remake of the tune "Mockingbird" for Toby's "Greatest Hits 2" CD. It charted in the Top 30 on the Billboard country songs chart.

Krystal describes her music as country infused with blues, and says she's very ladylike but with some rough edges. Her debut CD will reportedly showcase some of that unflinching, sometimes unfiltered honesty that she likely inherited from her dad. And since Toby keeps expanding his restaurant/nightclub empire, his daughter will likely have some built-in places to get booked as she begins to launch her career. In fact, Krystal performed at the recent opening of Toby's I Love This Bar & Grill in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., last Friday to a packed house.