Keith cancer fundraiser set for this weekend

Wednesday,?May?8,?2013 ? Toby Keith will celebrate a decade of supporting Oklahoma's children with cancer and their families at the 10th Annual Toby Keith & Friends Golf Classic on May 10 and 11.

This year, the Toby Keith Foundation's primary fundraising event will welcome even more celebrity golfers teeing up at the Belmar Golf Course on Saturday, May 11, with morning and afternoon shotgun starts for the first time in the history of the two-day effort. Each golfer will be eligible to win a new Ford F-150 truck in the Built Ford Tough Shootout. The festivities kick off on May 10 at the Riverwind Casino with a "Denim & Diamond" dinner and auction that also includes entertainment.

The golf classic benefits the Toby Keith Foundation's OK Kids Korral, a cost-free home-away-from-home for pediatric cancer patients, which is set to open in October.

The Golf Classic generates most of its funds from its live and silent auctions. Items up for bid this year include tickets to the ACM Awards, naming rights to a room in OK Kids Korral, a TPC Sawgrass Golf Getaway in Ponte Vedre Beach, Fla., a Los Angeles Talk Show ticket package and passes to the Emmy Awards. Silent auction items include memorabilia from Taylor Swift, Charlie Daniels, Jimmy Buffet, Derek Jeter, Mia Hamm, Blake Griffin and from Keith himself.

Baseball pitchers Greg Maddux and Bret Saberhagen, Olympic gold medalist Bart Conner, Basketball Hall of Famer Nancy Lieberman, and current and former NFL players Dermontti Dawson, Rocky Calmus, Roy Williams and Tony Casillas will be on hand.

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Hope on the Rocks For most of the 2000s, Toby Keith albums have been predictable and quite honestly pretty boring. Keith's latest again is predictable, but this time around it's anything but dull. Perhaps it's the pared down selection of just 10 cuts, allowing Keith to cull and produce the best that he's written. His themes stomp through familiar turf - cold beer, curvy girls, curvy girls who drink cold beer - but there's a more convincing vibe from start to finish.????

Bullets in the Gun Toby Keith is back with his annual release, once again delivering a record stocked with blue collar scenarios and tales of life. While his songs do paint a picture, at times they lack the refreshing desire of something fresh and new. The record opens with the title cut co-written by Rivers Rutherford. This song tells a story, but leaves the feeling of having heard it before. Think Robert Earl Keen and mix in the Cliff Note version of Townes Van Zandt's Pancho & Lefty, without the compelling saga.????

American Ride As his latest 12-song outing demonstrates, few singer-songwriter's craft a commercial hook song as well as Toby Keith. Combining the by now standard mix of rock guitars with honky-tonk instrumentation, Keith largely eschews political ideology in favor of sincerely rendered romantic moments (Are You Feeling' Me, Tender As I Wanna Be) and self-reproach (Woke Up On My Own). And, just in case there was any doubt, he assures us that singing country music is preferable to digging ditches (Gypsy Drifter).????

Editorial: Walking the talk?? When names like Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Waylon and the Hag are invoked, you're talking hard core country. These are the touchstones of country , the guys who made country music what it was and still is (or maybe can be). When these folks would sing about being down-and-out and the rough-and-tumble, they knew of what they were singing about. Fast forward a few years to the country singers of today.???? Concert Review: The Howlin' Brothers leave the radar behind?? The Howlin' Brothers - this trio, in reality, contains no brothers - are about eight years into their career and on their fifth album. To say they've been under the radar screen may be an understatement. You couldn't even say they've been flying under that screen because they have stuck very close to their Nashville environs....???? Concert Review: ZBB, Charley Pride lead third day charge at Stagecoach?? You learn a few things at Stagecoach, such as the notion that drunken cowboys and cowgirls will line dance to almost anything with a beat, from Riders in the Sky's western swing to Thompson Square's more mainstream country-pop. You also learn that some people just don't get it, such as the young hottie that unfurled a Confederate flag...????

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Annie Up For those who thought "Hell on Heels" was a one-off side project for Miranda Lambert (along with sidekicks Angaleena Presley and Ashley Monroe), think again. The Annies, aka "Lonestar Annie" (Lambert), "Hippie Annie" (Monroe), and "Holler Annie" (Presley), are no novelty act. Instead, they tackle material that you just are unlikely to hear on mainstream country radio both in subject matter and sonics.????

Never Regret Chances are good people will think they've heard an unknown Dierks Bentley song on the radio, when in fact it was actually a Craig Campbell tune. That's because Campbell sounds a whole lot like Bentley during "Never Regret." About the only chief difference between Campbell and Bentley songs, however, is how Bentley adds so much humor to his tunes. He also has a far more expressive singing voice.????

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