Toby Keith will be receiving a top honour at the BMI Country Awards next month.<\/p>\n
Clay Bradley, VP, Creative, Nashville said…<\/p>\n
“We are honored to present Toby Keith with this year\u2019s BMI Icon Award. Since the release of his single \u2018Should\u2019ve Been A Cowboy\u2019 in 1993, Toby has been the gold standard of songwriting in the modern era of Country music. Toby is not only a stellar songwriter, musician, and producer whose songs have amassed millions of performances; he is also a true humanitarian. With 11 USO tours under his belt, he continues to commit to honoring and serving our troops worldwide. No one is more deserving of this honor.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
BMI President and CEO Mike O\u2019Neill will host the ceremony alongside Bradley.<\/p>\n
The 2022 BMI Country Awards is scheduled to take place on November 8th at BMI’s Nashville office.<\/p>\n
BMI will also award the Country Songwriter, Song and Publisher of the Year, and the writers and publishers of the 50 most-performed songs of the year from BMI\u2019s country catalogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toby Keith will be receiving a top honour at the BMI Country Awards next month.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":19933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1263,4197,4198,62,227],"class_list":["post-21526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-bmi","tag-bmi-country-awards","tag-bmi-icon-award","tag-nashville","tag-toby-keith"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 01:10:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/10\/toby-keith-to-recieve-bmi-icon-awards\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21527,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21526\/revisions\/21527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}