Ray Waddell's Red, White, And True Blue

Ray Waddell, author of Red, White, and True Blue, grew up in Middle Tennessee and covering the music industry for about 18 years. In 2000, Billboard expanded its touring coverage, so they tapped Ray to become their first full-time concert business writer in decades. He stayed in touch with several agents and everyone else that associated with the concerts. Ray is an author to Billboards, and is also a contributor to them for section reviews, and sometimes features artists, mostly rock and country. Ray is knowledgeable about his writings, and who or what he is writing about. The source was published with Billboard in Volume 117, Issues 25. It was published 18 May 2005, it does not seem to be current because it is only eleven years old. This article presents information on the song Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue by Toby Keith, which people say to be the song about “The Angry American”. …show more content…
The article propels information about why so many people were not enthused about this song. People thought that Toby Keith was writing the song to associate it with the Iraq war, but really it was for those that were going to have to fight in the Afghanistan war. He wrote the song intended to only play for troops, not for it to become a single. General Jones told Keith that he would do the soldiers justice to release the song while they were at war. Keith did not know about that response, so he prayed about it, and by May 2002 he releases the song, and it became the number one most-played songs by July fourth. After all the controversy about it, Keith was okay with what people were saying about him because he knew what his song stood for. Aside of all the political division, the world is looking for one thing and that is peace. Keith mentions not to listen to him or anyone else, but to ask those that know what is going on for real before voting or before making their own