{"id":49203,"date":"2026-05-29T08:06:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=49203"},"modified":"2026-05-29T08:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:08:17","slug":"riley-green-samples-toby-keith-on-his-latest-song-with-the-blessing-of-tobys-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/05\/riley-green-samples-toby-keith-on-his-latest-song-with-the-blessing-of-tobys-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley Green Samples Toby Keith On His Latest Song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard\u00a0<strong>Riley Green&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0new song,\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;Think As You Drunk&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>, it\u00a0samples\u00a0<strong>Toby Keith&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;As Good As I Once Was&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0at the end.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it&#8217;s all thanks to Toby&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Riley&#8217;s team played the song for them, and they wanted to have Toby&#8217;s vocals on it.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;They completely thought it was a tip of the cap to Toby . . . It&#8217;s really a full-circle moment for me to have Toby&#8217;s vocal on that song.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>He also thinks the best compliment that can be given to a song is if it feels like a Toby song.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Especially as a songwriter, I don&#8217;t know if there was a bigger influence on me.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Riley also announced that his fourth album,&nbsp;<strong><em>&#8220;That&#8217;s Just Me&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>, will come out September 18th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Riley Green - Think As You Drunk (Lyric Video)\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1gezo8Zvt_g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you haven&#8217;t heard\u00a0Riley Green&#8217;s\u00a0new song,\u00a0&#8220;Think As You Drunk&#8221;, it\u00a0samples\u00a0Toby Keith&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;As Good As I Once Was&#8221;\u00a0at the end.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s all thanks to Toby&#8217;s family. Riley&#8217;s team played the song for them, and they wanted to have Toby&#8217;s vocals on it.\u00a0 &#8220;They completely thought it was a tip of the cap to Toby . .","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":45306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[7397,536,7396,520],"class_list":["post-49203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-as-good-as-i-once-was","tag-riley-green","tag-think-as-you-drunk","tag-toby-keith"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-05 17:29:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/05\/riley-green-samples-toby-keith-on-his-latest-song-with-the-blessing-of-tobys-family\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49203","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=49203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49205,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49203\/revisions\/49205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}