Artist Toby Keith

Ethan Miller

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Toby Keith

Toby Keith became a superstar with his jingoistic post-9/11 hit “Courtesy Of The Red, White, And Blue (The Angry American)” and then Shock’n Y’all, a 2003 album full of raucous and refined country music. When not acting as the cartoonish voice of overzealous flag-wavers everywhere (though he’s—gasp—a registered Democrat who’s voiced support for the Obama administration), Keith is a becomingly naturalistic singer with a dry, unaffected voice that soaks into hooks he dangles with impressive ease. He continues to sing about gasoline, drinking, and women, among other things all red-blooded Americans care about, and has strip-mined those topics enough to put out 10 albums since 2001.

Updated 08/30/2011