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Posted: 4:13 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2012

Toby Keith at the CMA's? "Hell no!"  

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LAS VEGAS, NV - APRIL 01: Singer Toby Keith poses backstage at the 47th Annual Academy Of Country Music Awards held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 1, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images for ACM)

By Nancy Wilson

Although Toby Keith has no problem with the ACM Awards, he has no plans on attending next week's CMA Awards show in Nashville.    "Hell no, I ain’t showing up. I gotta go get a root canal that day, or something fun," he told Country Weekly.    Although Toby is nominated for his first CMA award in seven years—for Music Video of the Year for "Red Solo Cup"  he is skipping the show which he has said in the past is politically driven.    Despite his leanings, he thinks it's funny to receive a nomination.   "Isn’t that crazy?" he says. "But, you know, it’s the only song I ever had cross over and play on the pop stations. Ever. All of my peers that are hard ticket sellers, successful people, at the top of the game we play every day, about every one of them has had a certain amount of crossover play: Taylor, Tim, Keith, Flatts, Faith. I was always the one guy in that generation that didn’t. [Pop stations] were always like, ‘He is so country, we’re not going to play him.’ And I always took pride in that.”   Read all about it here.   Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood are hosting the 46th annual CMA Awards next Thursday, November 1st at 8 p.m. on ABC, with no Toby.  

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