Toby Keith, Alabama, Michael Ray, and Blanco Brown at Topsfield Drive-in at 2021-09-02T09:00:00-0400. Toby Keith (full name Toby Keith Covell) is an American country song producer, singer, and songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee, originally from Clinton, Oklahoma. Born on 8 July, 1961 Keith has become interested by song at some stage in the summers he spent with his grandparents. At the age of 20, he shaped a band called Easy Money Band with his buddies Scott Webb, Keith Cory, David Vowell, and Danny Smith. The band played local bars, however Keith’s full time activity changed into operating the oil fields, at least till the decline of the oil fields in 1982, forcing Keith into unemployment, which gave him the possibility to pay attention more on track. In the early Nineties, Keith changed into signed to Mercury Records and his debut unmarried; “Should’ve been a Cowboy” went to Number One at the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart in 1993. The single changed into the best lead off for his self-titled album, which produced three greater Top 5 singles and successful excursions with Shania Twain and John Brannen.