Yahoo Lifestyle Country Music Fans Haven't Heard the Last of Toby Keith
If you’re like us, you live your life with The Highway streaming in the background. While the Sirius XM channel is dedicated to “Today’s Country,” many times, tunes by the late, great Toby Keith grace the airwaves. And every time, it makes us a bit nostalgic. Fortunately for us, we haven’t heard the last of Toby Keith—and we’re not just talking about old classics, either.
Earlier this month in an interview with Billboard, Jamey Johnson revealed that there is at least one Toby Keith song in the vault. How he knows? He worked on it with Toby leading up to his passing.
"We were working on a song toward the end,” he revealed in the interview. “I called him up one night and shared a few lines with him, and he added a few lines, and we turned around and wrote this whole verse.”
At the time, Jamey assumed that he and Toby would have a chance to meet in person to wrap up the song but they had to put things on pause while the “As Good as I Once Was” singer underwent treatment for his stomach cancer diagnosis.
“He always gave me the feeling that this wasn’t nothing—he was gonna beat this: ‘You don’t worry about me, pal. I got this’—and that lasted right up until February [when he died of cancer],” Jamey recalled.
While it’s been almost a year since Toby’s passing, Jamey has yet to revisit the song he was working on with the country superstar—but that’s not to say it will never happen.
“I don’t know what happens with the songs now, but I know some time is probably going to go by, and I might break them back out and revisit them later on,” he told Billboard, hinting at more than one tune. “But I think right now, the friends of his that I would consider finishing those songs with are still hurting, and it’s probably not time to start trying to do that just yet.”
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