Hello,
With Garth Brooks looking like he's making a slow comeback, I thought this would be an appropriate time to write about one of the greatest CDs of all-time. It's not just one of the greatest country CDs of all-time. I'm not going to declare it the best country CD of all-time, but one could make a reasonable argument for just that classification.
On August 27th, 1990 Garth Brooks released his second CD, "No Fences". It shipped 17 million copies in America alone and remains his biggest selling CD. Following his self-titled CD from the previous year, "Garth Brooks" which has such famous songs as "If Tomorrow Never Comes". Other popular songs include the puktifying "The Dance". It also features "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)" in which he mentions Chris Ledoux. It seems that led to a friendship between the two until the way too early death of Chris. Probably my favorite song on that CD is "Nobody Gets Off In This Town", a very hilarious deadpan song.
Along with an upcoming world tour, Garth recently released "Blame It All On My Roots", a 6 CD, 2 DVD collection. It was released exclusively through Walmart on November 28th, 2013, "Roots" has 77 songs and 33 videos. I don't know how good the sales were, but every time I go to Walmart there are always still a few left.
Jay Leno says that Garth still has "got it", but he doesn't really have it here. Let's hope he was sick or just had a rough night here before many people pay a lot of money to see him in concert again. Garth Brooks singing "Night Moves":
After playing a 4 year residency in Las Vegas, just him and his guitar, on this tour he'll be bringing a full band. I love Garth Brooks, but just him and a guitar? I think that would be damn boring. I saw him open for the Judds on one of their farewell tours and he was amazing. (Thanks to Wikipedia providing much of the biographical information, all opinions are mine.)
Garth Brooks talking about Kiss, family and his 2014 Tour.
It seems Garth is one of those that doesn't allow his music on Youtube as do most others. It looks like for most of these videos, I'm going to have to go with other people singing Garth's songs. Although he likes to play the humble aw shucks country boy, I don't believe it for a second. What he's hiding below that exterior is a steely (greedy?) businessman. That would explain him being a tightwad and why he allows very little of his music on Youtube. However no one can discount the greatness of "No Fences". Every song is amazing and a masterpiece. Although Garth a piece of advice, you may want to let your versions of your songs be on Youtube. The people covering your music for the most part are terrible!!
Here's Terry Fator and his Garth Brooks impression (by the way one of the better impersonators):
1) "The Thunder Rolls" (MusiqLuck's cover):
Garth Brooks impersonator Dean Simmons live cover of "The Thunder Rolls":
Tanya Tucker's cover of "The Thunder Rolls":
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Jet Black Stare's rock cover:
2) "New Way To Fly" (sung by Ray Montanna):
3) Garth, here's one of the better versions of this song available on Youtube, most of the versions are much worse. This is Brennan Barrier's cover of "Two Of A Kind Workin' On A Full House":
4) "Victim Of The Game": For this cover we'll go with his wife's version. She does a good enough job, but it's not quite as good as the original:
5) "Friends In Low Places" (A Garth impersonator for this cover, Tribute Guy):
6) "Wild Horses" (Mike Cantwell's cover):
7) "Unanswered Prayers" (I didn't realize there were so many Garth Brooks impersonators. Dean Simmons' cover of this amazing song.) This is my favorite song on the CD:
8) "Same Old Story" (Dino Nardelli's cover of this song.)
9) "Mr. Blue" (For this cover, we'll go with the original version by the Fleetwoods.):
10) "Wolves" (This video seems very appropriate for the lyrics.) :
After hearing these less than inspiring cover versions, I'm going to have to listen to the original CD on my iTunes.
themusicaddict
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