And he’s very generous with his crews
Very
He shares so there is that
That’s heavy man...
Garth is a mental case, although an extremely wealthy one.
Im guessing his song "friends in low places" is an autobiography?
My son-in-law is the chief engineer at a large metropolitan area and sees many acts and pro-athletes.
After Brooks & Trisha Yearwood played there a couple of years ago, he told me that Yearwood was one of the most insuffable, demanding & ungrateful he had been around and Brooks was one of the most nicest, appreciative and grateful. He said Brooks made a point of personally thanking every arena employee he saw after the show.
Brooks is wrong here, but I trust my son-in-law’s judgment.
I pegged him as a poser from Day One.
Outlaw County gave rednecks an excuse to grow long hair and smoke dope.
The best stories about the road are the ones that aren’t true.
Brooks, Springsteen and Paisley - the three stooges
Garth ain’t no Okie from Muskogee.
It’s a fact that he is a yay-hoo from Yukon.
Waylon obviously hadn’t seen the Clintons or Gavin Newsom when he made the remark.
Garth Brooks is a POSER!
Garth is a product of the Nashville cooperate music machine while Waylon went against that grain.
“Sincerity. If you can fake that you’ve got it made.”
Those were the three albums that made his career and put him into the stratosphere. The biggest criticism he got at the time from country purists was that his concerts were more like rock shows, complete with wireless mics that allowed him to run around the stage, something not done up to that point by country artists. He would also close out his show (encores) with straight-up covers of rock songs like "You May Be Right" by Billy Joel and "Keep Your Hands To Yourself" by Georgia Satellites. Garth Brooks had a college degree in advertising and so you might say he marketed his music career very well.
It is undeniable that the country music audience exploded during those early Garth years, with country radio becoming the number one music radio format in the U.S. (I believe still the case today). Of course, other country superstars were emerging at the same time such as Clint Black, Alan Jackson, and Travis Tritt.
By 1992 however, something changed about Garth Brooks. He started getting politically correct, even apologizing for earlier songs that celebrated drinking and getting rowdy, etc. His 1992 hit "We Shall Be Free" is a patronizing piece of pop pap - sort of a country version of "Imagine."
After that, Garth did nothing interesting artistically. He became sort of the "Air Supply" of country, churning out mediocrity after mediocrity. He still sells out concert halls (as does Barry Manilow) but hasn't had a top ten country hit in nearly two decades.
Political correctness does cause artists to lose their edge. In their zeal to not offend anybody, they become a mediocrity.
We have to go back at least 21 years? That is when he died. You’d think someone more recent would speak up.