Toby Keith wanted to be there! Toby Keith should have been there he wanted to be there just prior to the 2024 Blake Shelton and his Oklahoma friends all for the Hall concert in Tulsa Shelton sat down with host stormy Warren of the big 615 and admitted that Keith was on board for the event quote if you couldn't physically see him you would never know that he was sick subscribers of this channel know that's true he died in February but during his final interviews he was still cracking jokes like this one that car seat love that baby seat in the back man that's that's a yeah thanks man I just went to my daughter's play yeah that hey that's what you drive around town that that'll get you laid find links to our detailed coverage of Toby's life and death as well as his induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame in the description section of this video as for who was at this show at the bo Center Blake Shelton has many famous friends Blake Shelton's Oklahoma All for the Hall concert Ronnie Dunn the swan Brothers Kristen chenowith and more took the stage with Blake there was also a huge surprise guest that I'm going to get to but I want to get right to the point of this video nearly $800,000 was raised to benefit music Vince Gill sings for Toby Keith programs the Highlight might have been Vince Gill and I thought I'd do uh something sweet tonight and do this for uh do this to the memory of U this song was written about the loss of my brother Bob and tonight I want to also include uh the dedication of this song to Blake's brother Richie that he lost when he was a young boy in a car accident and also dedicated to another fellow o Mr toy kingon okay pause right there Bob died of a heart attack in 1993 and if you know Vince you know the story well he had started to write go rest high after Keith Whitley's death but finished after his brother's passing it's pretty common for him to tear up singing the song but he never says no when he's asked to play it at a remembrance and that mountain is now over 30 years old he won two Grammy awards for the song and famously broke down singing it during George Jones's Funeral in 2013 great thing about Toby after his death is that his friends knew they could tell the good stories with the bad stories because above everything else Toby appreciated honesty Keith Urban did just that when we asked him about his favorite Toby Keith memory he was young and came across Toby Keith sitting at a bu so he thought he'd go introduce himself tuby's had a few and he looks at me kind of surly and uh he goes huh I said oh you you I think you Keith Urban gets honest about Toby Keith recorded a song he wrote Jesus got and he goes yeah I said oh oh um did you like the song he goes we cut it man and I went yeah yeah no thank I thank you so much did you I mean you obviously write a lot of songs it's unusual for you to record an outside song did you like the song we cut it man okay I mentioned a surprise performance and here she comes Blake brought his new favorite Oklahoma wife Gwen Stefani to the stage with him they sang a trio of songs including their latest duet purple [Music] irises if you liked this video we Blake Shelton's surprise included the link to another one we think you'll enjoy right here and YouTube selected one it thinks you'll like right here I'm Billy Dukes for Taste of Country thanks for watching and thanks for subscribing