{"id":29219,"date":"2024-04-08T18:02:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T18:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/sammy-hagar-reflects-on-emotional-toby-keith-tribute\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T18:02:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T18:02:47","slug":"sammy-hagar-reflects-on-emotional-toby-keith-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/sammy-hagar-reflects-on-emotional-toby-keith-tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"Sammy Hagar reflects on emotional Toby Keith tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-08\/M_SammyHagarCMT_040824.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Brynn Osborn\/CBS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Sammy Hagar<\/strong> took part in a tribute to the late <strong>Toby Keith<\/strong> at the CMT Music Awards on Sunday, April 7, and took to social media after his performance to reflect on the experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI was so worried that I wasn\u2019t going to make it through the performance emotionally. It was hard for me working up to it,\u201d Sammy\u00a0writes <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C5fO5WvLoHO\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>on Instagram<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> about his performance of \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7lY6UMqjdX0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>I Love This Bar<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.\u201d \u201cWhen I hit the stage with Toby\u2019s wonderful band that I played with many times over the years, the audience, energy, enthusiasm, and love that filled that building (turned) every tear of sadness into joy.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He adds, &#8220;It was a beautiful experience to say the least, so proud and honored to have been invited.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Toby\u2019s family was on hand for the tribute, which also included performances by <strong>Brooks &amp; Dunn<\/strong> and <strong>Lainey Wilson<\/strong>.\u00a0Sammy said he got to spend a few days with the family, sharing,\u00a0\u201cWe all miss that bigger than life, wonderful man, Mr. Toby Keith. A.k.a. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/bigdogdaddy\/\"><span class=\"s1 s2\"><strong>#BigDogDaddy<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Toby Keith passed away in February after a two-year battle with stomach cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7lY6UMqjdX0\" title=\"Sammy Hagar Covers Toby Keith's &quot;I Love This Bar&quot; | 2024 CMT Music Awards\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brynn Osborn\/CBS Sammy Hagar took part in a tribute to the late Toby Keith at the CMT Music Awards on Sunday, April 7, and took to social media after his performance to reflect on the experience. \u201cI was so worried that I wasn\u2019t going to make it through the performance<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/sammy-hagar-reflects-on-emotional-toby-keith-tribute\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}