For over twenty-five years now, Toby Keith has personified the big hairy calf fries of country music, refusing to take a dive and be anything less than the disgruntled drunken redneck from Moore, Oklahoma, that he truly is just as much off-stage as he is on. From supporting Jimmy Buffett and George Bush to supporting the troops and the weight of a restaurant franchise on his shoulders, say what you want about Keith, but at least in a music biz full of faux-farmers and grab-assers alike, he’s pretty much who he says he is and has the overpriced menu items to prove it.
And, as one of the few Big Dawg Daddies to play President Trump’s inauguration, he’s probably earned himself a lifetime pass to that special C.I.A. weed that only the upper echelon of elites ever get to puff, puff, pass, something that I’m sure that just had to be an integral part in his decision-making process--or lack thereof--when asked to play a special “men’s only” free concert in the Saudi capital of Riyadh this weekend in an event that celebrates Trump’s first overseas visit, according to an AP report.