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by Brent Warnken
Country music living legend Garth Brooks has been entertaining the masses in Nashville for the past 20 years, and now the down home country boy is leaving the comfort of Music City for the steps of Washington, D.C., where he is gearing up to take the stage this weekend at the monumental celebration to commemorate the inauguration of the nation's next president, Barack Obama. Brooks will perform Sunday in a nationally-televised event at the Lincoln Memorial, where Obama and his family are likely to be in attendance before Obama's January 20 inauguration in Washington.
Garth Brooks is among a very assorted mix of artists spanning all musical genres that were selected to play at the inaugural event. Other musicians who will take the stage at the Lincoln Memorial include Sheryl Crow, John Mellencamp, James Taylor, Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Jennifer Nettles, Bono, Renee Fleming, Josh Groban, Herbie Hancock, will.i.am, Heather Headley, John Legend, Shakira, Usher, Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen. The inaugural gala will also feature historical passages read by public figures Jamie Foxx, Martin Luther King III, Queen Latifah and Denzel Washington. The event is free to the public and will be broadcast on HBO.
He may be lending his soothing vocals and catchy lyrics to the nation's next president this weekend, but Garth Brooks will forever be most influential to Nashville, where the singer/guitarist single-handedly changed the direction of country music in the 1990s. Brooks grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and earned a college degree from Oklahoma State University before eventually moving to Nashville in 1985 to pursue a singing career. After just one day spent in Music City trying to snag a record deal, a frustrated Garth Brooks moved back to Oklahoma and hit the honky tonk circuit there, eventually returning to Nashville in 1987, this time getting signed with Capitol Records. "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)" was Garth Brooks' breakout single in 1989, climbing the country music charts with the single and his debut self-titled album. Garth Brooks came to be one of the country crooner's biggest albums, also containing the number one-charting singles "If Tomorrow Never Comes" and "The Dance," as well as the number two-charting "Not Counting You."
The early 1990s were full of this kind of success for Brooks, whose sophomore release No Fences sat atop the country music charts for 23 weeks and sold more than 10 million copies. Smash singles and all-time favorite bar anthems like "Friends in Low Places," "Unanswered Prayers," "The Thunder Rolls" and "Shameless" all kept the ball rolling for Brooks in the '90s, and the Nashville favorite quickly overtook the country music industry with his ingenious fusion of traditional country honky tonk with contemporary hooks and appeal. Albums Ropin' the Wind (1991), The Chase (1992), In Pieces (1993), The Hits (1994), Fresh Horses (1995), Sevens (1997) and Double Live (1998) were all number one-charting hits, but Brooks wanted more for his career in the late '90s and even attempted to expand past the country music industry by trying out (unsuccessfully) for the San Diego Padres baseball team in 1998.
In 2000 Brooks was set to star in a thriller called The Lamb, a film in which he played a character named Chris Gaines. The country music artist released an album under the name Chris Gaines in order to merge film with music, but both enterprises flopped on the entertainment scene. After laying low for most of the early 2000s, Garth Brooks started making a comeback with 2001's Scarecrow, which featured the catchy single "Wrapped Up In You." Spending most of the early 2000s in and out of retirement, Brooks eventually came back full-force in 2006 with The Limited Series, also currently burning up the charts with the hit single "More Than a Memory." Garth Brooks is a rarity in the music industry, so if you haven't seen him perform at one of his vivacious live shows, get Garth Brooks tickets online before he retires again!
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This article is sponsored by StubHub.com and was written by Brent Warnken. StubHub is a leader in the business of selling Garth Brooks tickets (http://www.stubhub.com/garth-brooks-tickets/ sports tickets, concert tickets, theater tickets and special events tickets.
Garth Brooks -The Thunder Rolls
Garth Brooks -The Thunder Rolls
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