Several New Announcements

Officially tagged as the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, RodeoHouston is an annual multi-day event which always tries to mix up the genres, although leaning heavily towards country.

Here’s the lineup w/dates for 2013:

Feb. 25 – Toby Keith
Feb. 26 – Gary Allan
Feb. 27 – Alan Jackson
Feb. 28 – Zac Brown Band
March 1 – Mary J. Blige
March 2 – Brantley Gilbert
March 3 – Demi Lovato
March 3 – Austin Mahone
March 4 – Styx
March 5 – Lady Antebellum
March 6 – Dierks Bentley

Backstage passes are available for single-day only.

We also have confirmed four dates for the "tag team" of The Black Keys and The Flaming Lips.

Those dates are:

April 28 – Kansas City, Mo., Sprint Center    
April 30 – Pittsburgh, Pa., Consol Energy Center    
May 2 – Atlanta, Ga., Aaron’s Amphitheatre At Lakewood    
May 3 – Nashville, Tenn., Bridgestone Arena

Lastly, Green Day has re-set some dates that were supposed to begin this month but were postponed. Here are the new ones:

March 28 – Rosemont, Ill., Allstate Arena
March 29 – Moline, Ill., I Wireless Center
March 31 – Pittsburgh, Pa., Consol Energy Center
April 1 – Rochester, N.Y., Blue Cross Arena
April 3 – Philadelphia, Pa., The Liacouras Center
April 4 – Fairfax, Va., Patriot Center
April 6 – Uncasville, Conn., Mohegan Sun Arena
April 7 – Brooklyn, N.Y., Barclays Center
April 9 – Providence, R.I., Dunkin' Donuts Center

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Member Review: Toby Keith

BPD member 0077 wrote:

Ostensibly, Keith is still on the road with his so-called American Ride tour - named after this 2009 album of the same name - but he opened his 90-minute set with Bullets In the Gun, also the title of his new disc due on Oct. 5.

The opening song came after what amounted to a car commercial for Ford trucks - his tour sponsor - as Keith first appeared lying in the back of one while a sign saying "Ford: Built Tough" appeared behind him for the entire show.
   
Still, Keith, actually toned down his legendary patriotic persona deleting such songs as American Soldier and Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American) which have been wrapping up his shows.

Otherwise, it was pretty much party-hearty crowd-pleasing time all the time with light-hearted songs as Get Drunk And Be Somebody, Trailerhood, I Love This Bar (including a plug for his restaurant, Toby Keith's I Love This Bar and Grill), Weed With Willie (exactly what you think it's about), Beer for My Horses (with Willie Nelson contributing his vocals via video), and How Do You Like Me Now?!

Even when he slowed things down for a ballad like You Shouldn't Kiss Me Like This, he dedicated it to all "the ladies" in the audience for whom the first kiss is paramount.

"A five second kiss led to this three and a half minute song," explained Keith. "I don't mind if it's girl on girl," he encouraged two females near the front of the stage.

There was also lots of fireworks, explosions, confetti, and videos along with his ten-person band known as Easy Money.

It was 90-minutes of mindless fun I guess. I got the passes for my sister who thinks TK = God. I didn't even speak to him. But I did enjoy seeing the show from the back and watching how they made everything work.

The view from the back is something special, isn't it, 0077? It's a whole other show!

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Take an American Ride with Toby Keith

Country superstar Toby Keith has filled out his summertime schedule behind last year's "American Ride," confirming dates and venues for more US concerts.

The award-winning musician continues to support last year's "American Ride," which surfaced in October and marked the performer's 13th studio release. The effort's title track--the only song on the album that Keith did not write--served as its lead single, landing the musician his 19th No. 1 hit on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart.

In October, Keith received the Songwriter/Artist of the Decade Award from the Nashville Songwriters Association International.

"If I am ever in a position to be in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, it won't mean any more than this," Keith explained in an interview BPD had with him last fall. "Any award given to me by songwriters is the ultimate. I'm completely at a loss for words to tell you how big it is to me."

Earlier this month, Keith was nominated for Entertainer of the Year at the 45th annual Academy of Country Music Awards, which takes place in April in Las Vegas.

The musician has several awards already under his belt, including two American Music Awards for Favorite Country Male Artist (2003 and 2005) and two Academy of Country Music Awards for Entertainer of the Year (2002 and 2003), among others.

Dates and (some) venues below:

April 2010
25 - Indio, CA - Empire Polo Club

June 2010
19 - Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center
20 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Blossom Music Center
25 - Oshkosh, WI - Country USA
26 - Cadott, WI - Chippewa Valley Festival Grounds

July 2010
9 - Virginia Beach, VA - Virginia Beach Amphitheatre
10 - Raleigh, NC - Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion
11 - Charlotte, NC - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
15 - Sioux Falls, SD - To be announced
16 - Minneapolis, MN - To be announced
17 - Maryland Heights, MO - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
18 - Des Moines, IA - To be announced
22 - Boise, ID - To be announced
23 - Portland, OR - To be announced
24 - Seattle, WA - Sleep Train Amphitheatre
29 - Wheatland, CA - Sleep Train Amphitheatre

August 2010
1 - Fresno, CA - To be announced
6 - Mountain View, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre
7 - San Diego, CA - To be announced
8 - Phoenix, AZ - Cricket Wireless Pavilion
12 - Albuquerque, NM - The Pavilion
13 - Englewood, CO - Comfort Dental Amphitheatre
14 - Salt Lake City, UT - Usana Amphitheatre
20 - Darien Center, NY - Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
21 - Camden, NJ - Susquehanna Bank Center
22 - Burgettstown, PA - First Niagara Pavilion
26 - Moline, IL - iWireless Center
27 - Cincinnati, OH - Riverbend Music Center
28 - Noblesville, IN - Verizon Wireless Music Center
29 - Detroit, MI - To be announced

September 2010
2 - Atlanta, GA - Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood
3 - Tampa, FL - Ford Amphitheatre
4 - West Palm Beach, FL - Cruzan Amphitheatre
10 - Scranton, PA - To be announced
11 - Bristow, VA - Jiffy Lube Live
16 - Kansas City, MO - To be announced
17 - Omaha, NE - To be announced
18 - Tinley Park, IL - First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
23 - Albany, NY - To be announceds
24 - Hartford, CT - Comcast Theatre
25 - Mansfield, MA - Comcast Center

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