Toby Keith made an appearance on the sports podcast “Sellout Crowd” recently to talk about his battle with cancer, coming back to the stage and more.

During the interview, Toby explained the ups and downs in his ongoing battle with stomach cancer. “It’s a rollercoaster all the time with this stuff. I have the resources financially and otherwise to get the best treatments I can get. They’re taking great care of me and I’m getting all the latest stuff you can get,” he said during the segment. “In fact, I’m going to Florida to see another guy down there that’s got some other kind of treatments and I’m trying ’em all I’m throwing the kitchen sink at it.”

So why is Toby fighting so hard to beat this thing? The battle is not just for him. “Cancer’s an island and you’re on a boat and nobody goes over to that island when you don’t have it. And as soon as you crash land on it, there’s a lot of boats there. Everybody’s got this stuff, and it’s more than people think. So I was like, ‘if I can survive this and live to tell my story, maybe I can save somebody else’s life.’” See Toby’s interview here.

Source: CountryNow

While last week’s CMA Awards got most of the country fans’ attention, there was another awards ceremony going on in Nashville that, for many artists, was equally as important – the BMI Awards.

The BMI Awards are more of a “behind-the-scenes” recognition of artistry, far removed from prime time television and red carpets. But the musicians and songwriters show up and show out, even if the show is mostly for the folks that work on Music Row.

At this year’s awards, both Morgan Wallen and Luke Combs were named “Songwriter of the Year” and when both were on stage, Luke proved once again he knows his way around a great country song. Luke congratulated Morgan on his award, and proceeded to perform Morgan’s big hit “Thought You Should Know” with Morgan sitting right next to him. “By the way, I love this song a whole lot, man,” Combs told Wallen onstage, before he started the song. “Congrats again.”

Source: TasteOfCountry

With a 40+ year career in country music, seven #1 hits and a song, “God Bless The USA,” that will forever be part of the American fabric, at 81, Lee Greenwood has earned the right to call it a day – and over the weekend the country legend confirmed that he was doing just that.

On the Brilyn Hollyhand Show on FoxNews, Greenwood responded to a question about the rumors that he was retiring. “It’s not a rumor,” he responded, saying that while the plans for how things wind down are not yet laid out, he’s definitely calling it a career. He cited his children reaching adulthood and his health, but added that he felt he owed what years he had left to his wife Kimberly. He also added that he was “so grateful for the years that they (the fans) have come to my shows, continually, and here I am at the end of my career and they still come, and they still hear me sing the same forty songs that I’ve sang for the last forty years…I’m grateful.”

Source: FoxNews

Friday was Veterans Day, and “The Kelly Clarkson Show” did a special episode dedicated to the holiday. As part of that, she featured a video of one veteran performing a song for an enthusiastic crowd at the Grand Ole Opry.

Of course, that veteran was Craig Morgan, who performed his hit “Almost Home” in front of a packed house recently. The crowd loved it, and loved it even more when Morgan was joined for the second verse by none other than Jelly Roll.

Jelly, who appears on the re-recorded version of the song on Morgan’s recently released “Enlisted” EP, has often cited the tune as an inspiration to him – especially when he was behind bars. With JR’s help, the 2003 hit has achieved new fame 20 years later.

Source: CountryNow

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