{"id":2607,"date":"2026-01-28T12:23:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:24:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T17:24:28","slug":"toby-keith-performs-courtesy-of-the-red-white-and-blue-at-2002-flameworthy-awards-cmt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/28\/toby-keith-performs-courtesy-of-the-red-white-and-blue-at-2002-flameworthy-awards-cmt\/","title":{"rendered":"Toby Keith Performs \u201cCourtesy of the Red, White, and Blue\u201d at 2002 Flameworthy Awards | CMT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n&#8220;Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)&#8221; is a 2002 country anthem by Toby Keith that became a definitive, though polarizing, musical response to the September 11 terrorist attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">The song was born from Keith\u2019s grief over the death of his father, Hubert &#8220;H.K.&#8221; Covel Jr., in a car accident in March 2001, followed six months later by the 9\/11 attacks.\u00a0 Keith wrote the lyrics in roughly 20 minutes on the back of a fantasy football sheet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000000;\">Originally, Keith only intended to play the song live for troops. However, James L. Jones, then-Commandant of the Marine Corps, told him it was his &#8220;duty&#8221; to record it to boost national morale.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)&#8221; is a 2002 country anthem by Toby Keith that became a definitive, though polarizing, musical response to the September 11 terrorist attacks. The song was born from Keith\u2019s grief over the death of his father, Hubert &#8220;H.K.&#8221; Covel Jr., in a car accident in March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-2607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies-music","tag-movies-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2612,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions\/2612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}