The American Way

Toby Keith: American Icon

I grew up on Long Island in the 1980s, listening to a variety of music, including classic rock, new wave, and rap (that’s what we called hip-hop back then).

One genre that I never so much as thought to expose myself to was country, despite my father’s weekend knack for playing Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson nonstop.

One of my fraternity brothers at Pe…