Toby Keith wrote all kinds of country songs His legacy might be post-9/11 American anger wdio.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wdio.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
For others, Keith’s work sowed division and was blindly patriotic — a wedge that deepened America’s cultural fault lines. Keith, who died Monday of stomach cancer at age 62, is being celebrated for his immense catalog across a diversity of subjects, from small-town heartache to his preference for red Solo cups. But in the fractured political landscape of 2024 America, it’s the long-tail legacy of “Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American)" that may be remembered most. For many in post-9/11 America, the 2002 song caught the mood.