When Toby Keith died Monday night after a two-year battle with stomach cancer at age 62, tributes poured in from Dolly Parton, Carrie Underwood, Jason Aldean, Zach Bryan, Luke Combs and even First Lady Jill Biden. Absent from that list is the other person everyone was talking about this week: Taylor Swift.
The “Bad Blood” singer was no stranger to Keith, who signed Swift to her first record deal in 2005. Then just a teenager still finishing high school, Swift made her first deal with Big Machine Records, into which Keith had just merged his own independent label Show Dog.
Swift had freshly moved to Nashville to pursue her passion, and Keith took an immediate liking to her unique batch of syrupy pop-country songs that would soon make up her debut album, “Taylor Swift.”
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