Toby Keith's new album, Drinks After Work, is still going strong. The record is currently in third place on the country music charts. Meanwhile, the "Angry American" is continuing to tour wounded soldier camps in honor of Veterans Day.
Toby Keith is holding strong in the number three spot on country music charts. The critically acclaimed album features the titular track, "Drinks After Work," as its lead single. However, the hit song was never meant to be a single. Keith recently spoke with Great American Country about the disaster that stalled the record and pushed "Drinks After Work" to the front of the record:
“I’ll always remember this album as the one I didn’t finish on normal time because of the tornadoes. I was in Nashville the day the tornado hit. We were at Ocean Way Studios, and my assistant pulled an iPad up. It had a local weather app rolling a live stream. It was crossing I-35, and was headed about a mile and a half from my sisters house, going right down her road. I said I had to cut and leave. I left the next morning, and I didn’t have the album done. I didn’t get it done until later, but we needed a single. So, that’s how ‘Drinks After Work’ became the first single. We hadn’t picked a single, but we only had two things done. So, the album was put together in pieces.”
Keith is known for his big heart. He recently spoke with reporters about what it is like to visit with wounded Soilders, something he often does:
“You walk in those MASH units, you can't walk into a tent where a guy’s laying with his leg blowed off and go, ‘Hey man, how you doing? Normal conversation chatter doesn’t work, ’cause guess what? He ain’t doing very good. So, you have to go in and find something else new to stir the conversation, and those little things like that are really tough.”
Keith later added:
“Flying on airplanes out of Baghdad with a couple coffins wrapped in American flags—you talk about a somber reality check. You step on a cargo plane and know that I’m getting ready to go to Kuwait and go to Germany and I’m getting ready to fly back to Oklahoma, and that guy is going to Oregon in that box..."
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