Apple Music Honors Toby Keith With Exclusive Apple Music Nashville Sessions

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Apple Music has honored the legacy of Toby Keith with its newest release, titled “Apple Music Nashville Sessions: Toby Keith Covered Collection,” featuring live-recorded covers of the icon’s catalog performed by Ashley McBryde, Ella Langley, Megan Moroney, Parker McCollum, Riley Green and Tucker Wetmore.

“Toby Keith loved music and especially singer-songwriters. He would be so proud of this group of monster talent that covered his songs,” said TK Kimbrell, Toby Keith’s longtime manager and friend. “Thanks, Ashley, Ella, Megan, Parker, Riley and Tucker! Y’all are truly the hottest of the hot, and Toby’s music lives on!”

All covers are available exclusively on Apple Music and include “A Little Less Talk and a Lot More Action” by McBryde, “Wish I Didn’t Know Now” by Langley, “Who’s Your Daddy?” by Moroney, “Who’s That Man” by McCollum, “Should’ve Been a Cowboy” by Green and “As Good As I Once Was” by Wetmore.

“‘A Little Less Talk and a Lot More Action’ comes from Toby’s first record in 1993. I’m 10, and I’m at an age now where I can pick songs that I listen to,” says McBryde. “When I think of the word ‘honky-tonk’ and what that would sound like, this is one of my references, like Brooks & Dunn would be a reference. Mark Chesnutt would be a reference. Toby Keith is definitely a reference, especially this song. And then, in my adult life, this song has stayed on my playlist, my bonfire playlist, my go-hang-out-on-a-boat-with-my-friends playlist, or pools or whatever the event is. This is one of my mainstays.”

“When I hear the word ‘legacy,’ I think of legends, and Toby Keith is definitely one of those legends in my book,” says Wetmore. “Like the old saying goes, legends never die, and neither will his music. Toby Keith’s music, in three words, is legendary, nostalgic, and just something that’ll never grow old.”

“It’s one of my favorite Toby songs and one of my favorite country songs of all time,” adds McCollum. “I feel like as a songwriter, I’m always trying to write songs from that perspective of the sad, heartbreak love songs about everything going terribly wrong, which this song encapsulates pretty well. You never had to wonder whose song it was when you heard a Toby song, and this one’s at the top of my list in his catalog. It’s an honor to get to do it.”

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