{"id":29375,"date":"2024-08-28T04:50:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T08:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=29375"},"modified":"2024-08-28T04:25:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T08:25:31","slug":"toby-keith-tribute-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/08\/toby-keith-tribute-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Toby Keith Tribute Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of NBC\u2019s broadcast of\u00a0<strong><em>Toby Keith<\/em><\/strong><em>: American Icon<\/em>\u00a0TONIGHT, two performances from the special tribute show have been shared.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Luke Bryan<\/strong>\u00a0has on a cowboy hat his sister gave him, <em>\u201cBack when I was playing bars and doing about 10 Toby Keith songs a night. I used to wear this hat every night. Ever since I lost my sister I haven\u2019t put this hat on onstage in a lot of years. I was walking out the house, and I said, &#8216;You know what? I\u2019m just an old country boy from Georgia. Toby Keith certainly made me wanna be a cowboy. I\u2019m gonna be a cowboy tonight.&#8217;<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/C_LtOu1yeMF\/\">Bryan then played a rousing version<\/a>\u00a0of Keith&#8217;s hit &#8220;Should&#8217;ve Been a Cowboy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carrie Underwood<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/carrie-underwood-pays-tribute-toby-keith-at-concert-exclusive-8701531\">led off the evening<\/a>\u00a0with a spirited performance of Keith\u2019s song, \u201cA Little Less Talk and a Lot More Action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Underwood set the emotional tone when she stepped on stage at the Bridgestone Arena, saying \u201cNashville! We are all here for one reason \u2014 this incredible man,\u201d as a giant photo of Keith appeared behind her.<\/p>\n<p><em>Toby Keith: American Icon<\/em>\u00a0airs on NBC on Wednesday, August 28 at 9 p.m. ET, and will stream the next day on Peacock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American Icon ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":20239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 11:02:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/08\/toby-keith-tribute-show\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29376,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29375\/revisions\/29376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}