{"id":2043,"date":"2025-04-23T09:29:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/?p=2043"},"modified":"2025-04-23T09:29:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T09:29:39","slug":"blake-shelton-shares-an-insider-secret-about-his-heartfelt-tribute-to-toby-keith-at-the-country-music-hall-of-fame-dive-into-the-special-touches-and-emotional-moments-that-made-this-honor-truly-memor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grow48.us\/?p=2043","title":{"rendered":"Blake Shelton Shares an Insider Secret About His Heartfelt Tribute to Toby Keith at the Country Music Hall of Fame: Dive into the Special Touches and Emotional Moments That Made This Honor Truly Memorable"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did the guitar Blake Shelton brought to pay tribute to Toby Keith at the Country Music Hall of Fame look familiar?<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a reason for that.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Talking to Taste of Country, Shelton revealed what it took to get that red, white and blue acoustic to the Medallion ceremony.<\/p>\n

Keith was inducted alongside John Anderson and James Burton on Sunday (Oct. 20). The \u201cAustin\u201d singer played \u201cI Love This Bar\u201d to close a three-song tribute.<\/p>\n

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\nIt\u2019s the same guitar that Keith played during his \u201cCourtesy of the Red, White and Blue\u201d era, and it was his guitar, but he didn\u2019t know it.<\/p>\n

Shelton explains it best \u2014 here\u2019s what he told Evan Paul from Taste of Country Nights:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they made those red, white and blue guitars for Toby, they made four of them and they gave Toby three of them. And my friend David Vincent at Takamine \u2014 I reached out to him and said, \u2018I\u2019m doing this induction thing for Toby at the Hall of Fame and his family is gonna be there and I want it to be \u2026 I really wanna honor Toby. I wanna buy one of those red, white and blue guitars.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Vincent told Shelton about the fourth guitar, which \u2014 as fate would have it \u2014 was still in his possession. He\u2019d secretly kept one just in case Keith needed one shipped to him on the road in an emergency.<\/p>\n

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