Garth Brooks
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About Garth Brooks:
Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962), best known as
Garth Brooks, is an American country music artist who helped make country music
a worldwide phenomenon. His eponymous first album was released in 1989 and
peaked at #2 in the US country album chart while climbing to #13 on the
Billboard 200 pop album chart. Brooks' integration of rock elements into his
recordings and live performances has earned him immense popularity. This
progressive approach allowed him to dominate the country single and album charts
while quickly crossing over into the mainstream pop arena, exposing country
music to a larger audience.
Brooks, with the assistance of Don Rowley and Britt Jones, and Marc Silver has
enjoyed one of the most successful careers in popular music history, breaking
records for both sales and concert attendance throughout the 1990s. Garth Brooks
still continues to sell well and according to Nielsen Soundscan, his albums
sales through end 2010 are at 68,513,000, which makes him the best-selling
albums artist in the United States in the SoundScan era (since 1991), a title
held since 1991, well over 6 million ahead of his nearest rival, The Beatles.
Furthermore, according to RIAA he is the second best-selling solo albums artist
in the United States of all time behind Elvis Presley (overall is third to the
Beatles and Elvis Presley) with 128 million units sold. Brooks has released six
albums that achieved diamond status in the United States, those being: Garth
Brooks (10× platinum), No Fences (17× platinum), Ropin' the Wind (14× platinum),
The Hits (10× platinum), Sevens (10× platinum) and Double Live (21× platinum).
Since 1989, Brooks has released 19 records in all, which include; 9 studio
albums, 1 live album, 4 compilation albums, 3 Christmas albums and 2 box sets,
along with 77 singles. He won several important awards in his career as 2 Grammy
Awards, 16 American Music Awards (not including the poll of "Artist of the
'90s") and the RIAA Award as Best selling solo albums artist of the Century in
the United States. As of 2010, Brooks' world-wide sales now exceed 200 million.
Troubled by conflicts between career and family, Brooks officially retired from
recording and performing from 2001 until 2009. During this time he sold millions
of albums through an exclusive distribution deal with Wal-Mart and has
sporadically released new singles. In 2005, Brooks started a partial comeback,
and has since given several performances and released two compilation albums.
On October 15, 2009, Garth Brooks announced the end of his retirement. In
December 2009, he began a 5 year concert deal with the Encore Hotel and Casino
on the Las Vegas Strip.
Garth Brooks's eponymous first album, was released in 1989 and was a critical
and chart success. It peaked at #2 in the US country album chart and reached #13
on the Billboard 200 pop album chart. Most of the album was traditionalist
country, influenced in part by George Strait. The first single, "Much Too Young
(To Feel This Damn Old)", was a country top 10 success. It was followed by his
first country #1, "If Tomorrow Never Comes". "Not Counting You" reached #2, and
then "The Dance" put him at #1 again; this song's theme of people dying while
doing something they believe in resonated strongly and, together with a popular
music video, gave Brooks his first push towards a broader audience. Brooks has
claimed that of all the songs he has recorded, "The Dance" is his favorite.
His follow-up album, No Fences, was released in 1990 and spent 23 weeks as #1 on
the Billboard country music chart. The album also reached #3 on the pop chart,
and eventually became Brooks's highest-selling album, with domestic shipments of
17 million. It contained what would become Brooks's signature song, the blue
collar anthem "Friends in Low Places", as well as two other Brooks classics, the
dramatic and controversial "The Thunder Rolls" and the philosophically ironic
"Unanswered Prayers". Each of these songs, as well as the affectionate "Two of a
Kind, Workin' on a Full House", reached #1 on the country chart. While Brooks's
musical style placed him squarely within the boundaries of country music, he was
strongly influenced by the 1970s singer-songwriter movement, especially the
works of James Taylor (whom he idolized and named his first child after) and Dan
Fogelberg. Similarly, Brooks was influenced by the operatic rock of the
1970s-era Freddie Mercury, Billy Joel, and Bruce Springsteen. In his highly
successful live shows, Brooks used a wireless headset microphone to free himself
to run about the stage, adding energy and arena rock theatrics to spice up the
normally staid country music approach to concerts. The hard rock band Kiss was
also one of his earliest grade school musical influences and his shows often
reflected this. Brooks said that the style of his show was inspired mostly by
Chris LeDoux.
Brooks's third album, Ropin' the Wind, released in September 1991, had advance
orders of 4 million copies and entered the pop album charts at #1, a first for a
country act. Ropin' the Wind's music was a melange of pop country and honky tonk;
hits included Billy Joel's "Shameless", "What She's Doing Now", and "The River".
All told, it became his second-best selling album after No Fences. The success
of this album further propelled the sales of his first two albums, enabling
Brooks to become the first country artist with three albums listed in the pop
top 20 in one week.
After spending time in Los Angeles during the 1992 riots, Brooks co-wrote the
gospel-country-rock hybrid "We Shall Be Free" to express his desire for
tolerance. The song became the first single off his fourth album The Chase. It
only reached #12 on the country chart, his first song in three years to fail to
make the top ten. Nevertheless, the song often received standing ovations when
performed in concert, went to #22 in the Christian charts through a marketing
deal with Rick Hendrix Company, and earned Brooks a 1993 GLAAD Media Award.
In 1993, Garth Brooks, who had criticized music stores which sold used CDs since
it led to a loss in royalty payments, persuaded Capitol Records not to ship his
August 1993 album In Pieces to stores which engaged in this practice. This led
to several anti-trust lawsuits against the record label and ended with Capitol
shipping the CDs to the stores after all.
Despite the delay in shipping the album to certain stores, In Pieces was another
instant No. 1 success, selling a total of about 10 million copies worldwide.
Some of his fans were upset, however, that the album was not released
simultaneously around the world. In the United Kingdom, one of Brooks's most
committed fan bases outside the United States, country music disc jockeys, such
as Martin Campbell and John Wellington, noted that many fans were buying the
album on import. This made it the first album to debut in the top 10 of the UK
Country album charts before its official release date. Once officially released
there, in 1994, the album reached the top spot on the UK Country chart and
number two on the UK pop albums chart. That same year "The Red Strokes" became
Brooks's first single to make the pop top 40 in the UK, reaching a high of No.
13; it was followed by "Standing Outside The Fire", which reached No. 23.
Previous albums No Fences, Ropin' The Wind and The Chase also remained in the
top 30 in the UK.
To support the album, Brooks embarked on a 1994 UK tour, selling out venues such
as Birmingham's National Exhibition Centre and London's Wembley Arena. He opened
the London radio station, Country 1035 and made a number of general television
and radio appearances, where he was often mocked by the presenters. On ITV's
regional news show London Tonight, Brooks was described as "a top-selling,
rooting tooting, cotton picking, Country and Western star, yeeha!" The
nationwide Big Breakfast show's presenters Chris Evans and Paula Yates,
commented that "He's selling more records than anyone in the world, but none of
us have ever heard of him." Yates then told Brooks that, "Country singers always
seem to be weeping over the dead dog and things," and also remarked, "I thought
you'd come in here and twiddle your pistol around and be impressed." Although
Brooks remained polite, he did observe that Yates was obviously unfamiliar with
modern country music. Scores of Brooks fans later wrote to complain about his
treatment on the show. Sometime after this, Dwight Yoakam appeared on the same
show and after Yates told him, "You seem different from other country singers
we've had on the show," Yoakam replied, "What? All two of us?"
Despite the disdain of the British media, Brooks's overall popularity in the
country was evident, with a top disc jockey, Nick Barraclough, referring to
Brooks as Garth Vader (a play on Darth Vader) for his "invasion" of the charts
and his success as an icon of the country genre. Unlike Alan Jackson, who
refused to return to the UK after being treated in a similar manner by the
press, Brooks returned in 1996 for more sold-out concerts, although this time
his media appearances were mostly restricted to country radio and interviews
with magazines.
Elsewhere in the world Brooks was also considered a star, and he enjoyed hit
records and sell-out tours in countries including Brazil, throughout Europe, the
Far East, New Zealand, and Australia.
In 1994 Brooks paid homage to one of his musical influences when he appeared on
the hard rock compilation Kiss My Ass: Classic Kiss Regrooved, a collection of
Kiss cover songs by popular artists from all genres. As the only country
performer to participate, some worried that Brooks would turn his cover of the
song originally sung by drummer Peter Criss, "Hard Luck Woman", into a country
song. Brooks instead insisted on remaining true to the song, and requested that
the members of Kiss perform the music on the track, the only song on the album
that the band musically contributed. The unlikely collaboration performed the
song live on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in promotion of Kiss My Ass: Classic
Kiss Regrooved, and despite its hard-rock appeal, Brooks's version did appear on
the country charts.
Brooks released Fresh Horses, his first album of new material in two years, in
November 1995; within six months of its release, it had sold over three million
copies. Despite its promising start, Fresh Horses plateaued quickly, topping out
at quadruple platinum. The album's lead single, "She's Every Woman" peaked at #1
on the Billboard Country Chart, however its follow-up single, "The Fever" (a
cover of the Aerosmith song) only peaked at #23, becoming Brooks's first
released Country single to not chart on the Top 10. However, Brooks had three
additional Top 10 hits from the album following the second single, including
"The Beaches of Cheyenne", that also hit #1.
In 1997, Brooks released his seventh studio album, Sevens. Originally, it was
scheduled to be released in August 1997, when he would promote it with a concert
in Central Park. Plans went awry when Capitol Records experienced a huge
management shakeup, leaving many of his contacts at the label out in the cold.
The album was then released in November 1997, and debuted at #1 on both the Top
Country Albums and Billboard 200 album charts in the United States, and later
became his fourth album to reach a sales of 10 million copies. Its first single
was also Brooks's first duet, "In Another's Eyes" with friend and popular
country singer, Trisha Yearwood. The song peaked at #2 on the Country Charts.
The album spawned three additional Top 10 Country hits, including two #1 hits
between 1997 and 1998, "Two Pina Coladas" and "To Make You Feel My Love", which
also was a Top 10 hit on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart and was
released on the soundtrack to the movie Hope Floats.
In 1999 Brooks and his production company Red Strokes Entertainment, with
Paramount Pictures, began to develop a movie in which Brooks would star. The
Lamb was to have revolved around Chris Gaines, a fictional rock singer and his
emotionally conflicted life as a musician in the public eye. To create buzz for
the project, Brooks took on the identity of Gaines in the October 1999 album
Garth Brooks in ... The Life of Chris Gaines, which was intended as a
'pre-soundtrack' to the film. Brooks also subsequently appeared as Gaines in a
television mockumentary for the VH1 series Behind The Music and as the musical
guest on an episode of Saturday Night Live which he hosted as himself.
Brooks's endless promotion of the album and the film did not seem to stir much
excitement and the failure of the Chris Gaines experiment became fairly evident
mere weeks after the album was released. Although critics admired Brooks for
taking a musical risk, the majority of the American public was either totally
bewildered, or completely unreceptive to the idea of Garth Brooks as anything
but a pop-country singer. Many of his fans also felt that by supporting the
Gaines project they would lose the real Garth Brooks. Sales of the album were
unspectacular and although it made it to #2 on the pop album chart, expectations
had been higher and retail stores began heavily discounting their oversupply.
Less than expected sales of the album (more than two million) and no further
developments in the production of the film as a result brought the project to an
indefinite hiatus in February 2001 and Gaines quickly faded into obscurity.
Despite the less than spectacular response to the Chris Gaines project, Brooks
gained his first – and only – US Top 40 pop single in "Lost in You", the first
single from the album.
As his career flourished, Brooks seemed frustrated by the conflicts between
career and family. He talked of retiring from performing in 1992 and 1995, but
each time returned to touring. In 1999 Brooks appeared on The Nashville
Network's Crook & Chase program and again mentioned retirement.
On October 26, 2000, Brooks officially announced his retirement from recording
and performing. Later that evening, Capitol Records saluted his achievement of
selling 100 million albums in the US with a lavish party at Nashville's Gaylord
Entertainment Center.
Brooks's final album, Scarecrow, was released on November 13, 2001. The album
did not match the sales levels of Brooks's heyday, but still sold comfortably
well, reaching #1 on both the pop and country charts. Although he staged a few
performances for promotional purposes, Brooks stated that he would be retired
from recording and performing at least until his youngest daughter, Allie,
turned 18. Despite ceasing to record new material between 2002 and (most of)
2005, Brooks continued to chart with previously recorded material, including a
top 30 placing for "Why Ain't I Running" in 2003.
In 2005 Brooks insisted that he was not touring and did not plan to record any
new studio material until at least 2015. However, in August 2005 it was
announced that Brooks had signed a deal with Wal-Mart, leasing them the rights
to his back catalog following his split with Capitol. Three months later, Brooks
and Wal-Mart issued The Limited Series, a six-CD box set containing past
material and a Lost Sessions disc with eleven previously unissued recordings.
This set marked the first time in history that a musician had signed an
exclusive music distribution deal with a single retailer. The set sold more than
500,000 physical copies on its issue date, proving that Brooks still had a large
fan base. By the first week in December 2005, it had sold over 1 million
physical copies.
Brooks took a brief break from retirement early in 2005 to perform for several
charity causes. With Yearwood, he sang Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Who'll
Stop the Rain" on the Shelter from the Storm: A Concert for the Gulf Coast
nationwide telethon for Hurricane Katrina relief. He also released a new single,
"Good Ride Cowboy", as a tribute to his late friend, rodeo star and country
singer, Chris LeDoux.
In early 2006 Wal-Mart issued The Lost Sessions as a single CD apart from the
boxed set, with extra tracks including a top 25 duet with Yearwood, "Love Will
Always Win". The couple were later nominated for a "Best Country Collaboration
With Vocals" Grammy Award for the song.
On August 18, 2007, Brooks announced plans for a new boxed set called The
Ultimate Hits. The new set features two discs containing 30 hits, three new
songs, and a DVD featuring music videos for each of these songs. The album's
first single, "More Than a Memory", was released to radio on August 27, 2007.
"More Than a Memory" debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs
chart, becoming the highest-debuting single in the chart's history. The previous
record had been set only one week earlier, when Kenny Chesney's "Don't Blink"
debuted at #16.
On October 15, 2009, Brooks announced that he was coming out of retirement, to
do weekend performances at Encore Las Vegas on the Las Vegas Strip. Four
performances are planned for several weekends in 2010; one on Friday night, two
shows on Saturday, and one on Sunday. This schedule will allow Brooks to
continue during the week to have the family life for which he had retired, and
to continue to perform on the weekend. On October 28, 2010, Garth announced he
would do his first "arena" concert in Nashville since 1998. All proceeds
benefits the Community Foundation in Middle Tennessee in support of all those
Tennessee Residents affected by the disastrous flooding that occurred the
weekend of May, 02 2010.
The financial terms of the agreement have not been announced, but Wynn did
disclose that he gave Brooks access to a private jet to quickly transport him
between Las Vegas and his home in Oklahoma.
Garth's first weekend on shows in Vegas received positive reviews and was called
the "antithesis of Vegas glitz and of the country singer's arena and stadium
extravaganzas" by USA Today. The shows feature Brooks performing solo with his
own guitar accompaniment, and include his own hits as well as songs that have
influenced him. Artists covered in the show include Simon and Garfunkel, Bob
Seger, Billy Joel, and Don McLean. His first performances at Encore Las Vegas
coincided with his wedding anniversary, and his wife Trisha Yearwood joined him
for two songs.
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