{"id":42182,"date":"2025-01-03T10:30:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T15:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=42182"},"modified":"2025-01-03T05:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T10:33:07","slug":"jelly-roll-pays-tribute-to-toby-keith-on-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/01\/jelly-roll-pays-tribute-to-toby-keith-on-new-years-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Jelly Roll Pays Tribute To Toby Keith On New Year\u2019s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During Jelly Roll\u2019s performance as part of Nashville\u2019s Big Bash New Year\u2019s Eve special on Tuesday, December 31, the singer paid tribute to Toby Keith by affectionately covering the late country superstar\u2019s 1993 debut single, \u201cShould\u2019ve Been a Cowboy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cover was part of Jelly\u2019s five-song set that included renditions of his own hits, \u201cI Am Not Okay,\u201d \u201cNeed a Favor,\u201d \u201cSon of a Sinner,\u201d and \u201cLiar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before delivering his emotional version of \u201cShould\u2019ve Been a Cowboy,\u201d Jelly introduced the track , saying&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI would like to dedicate this next song to one of the greatest country music superstars that ever lived. In his memory, God rest your soul Big Dog Daddy, Toby Keith baby!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DERVKdMvu0J\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>Jelly has performed \u201cCowboy\u201d live many times, including with T-Pain at the Stagecoach Festival in April.<\/p>\n<p>The duo also released a recording of their collaboration for Amazon Music, with all proceeds benefitting the Toby Keith Foundation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/arB4fFVMYko\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jelly Roll Pays Tribute To Toby Keith On New Year\u2019s Eve With Tender \u2018Should\u2019ve Been A Cowboy\u2019 Cover","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":38708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[3964,4338,458,5037,5256,520],"class_list":["post-42182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-jelly-roll","tag-nashvilles-big-bash","tag-new-years-eve","tag-shouldve-been-a-cowboy","tag-t-pain","tag-toby-keith"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 19:58:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/01\/jelly-roll-pays-tribute-to-toby-keith-on-new-years-eve\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42183,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42182\/revisions\/42183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}