Blake Shelton Reveals A Secret About His Toby Keith Tribute
Blake Shelton paid tribute to Toby Keith at the Country Music Hall of Fame with a special guitar.
What Made It Special
It’s the same guitar that Keith played during his “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue” era, and it was his guitar, but he didn’t know it. “When they made those red, white and blue guitars for Toby, they made four of them and they gave Toby three of them. And my friend David Vincent at Takamine.
How Blake Got The Guitar
I reached out to him and said, ‘I’m doing this induction thing for Toby at the Hall of Fame and his family is gonna be there and I want it to be … I really wanna honor Toby. I wanna buy one of those red, white and blue guitars.'” “And so that actually was the other one that Toby — he never got it, he probably never even knew it was made. I was able to get that and they went ahead and gave it to me, which is gonna be a prized possession for me for the rest of my life.”
Blake Says Toby Kept His Career Afloat
Taste of Country says, offstage, the two country stars were very close. In fact, Shelton credits Keith for turning his career around.
“For almost two years I opened for Toby,” he shares. “It was a big deal for me, and he gave me that shot. I was kind of in a low spot as far as having any success at radio and stuff and Toby kept keeping me out there. I think he knew it was helping me out, and it was.”
