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fastwebprofits: "The greatest conflicts are not between two people, but between one person and himself." - Garth Brooks
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Garth Brooks is coming out of retirement. |
 | By Jeff Sherman   OnMilwaukee.com Staff Writer E-mail author | Author bio More articles by Jeff Sherman |
| Published Oct. 15, 2009 at 11:15 a.m. |
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Garth Brooks, the biggest-selling solo performer of all time, is finally coming out of retirement.
Somewhat out of the limelight during the past eight years, the country star just announced a series of shows in Las Vegas. Many sources are reporting that Brooks will play 16 weeks of shows in 2010 at the Danny Gans Theater at the Wynn Las Vegas Casino and Hotel.
"I think Garth is a huge attraction," Gary Bongiovanni, editor of the concert-tracking magazine Pollstar, told the Los Angeles Times. "He could go headline arenas right now if he wanted to."
I've seen Brooks, who is now 47, live twice -- once in South Bend, Ind., and a second time at the Bradley Center. And, simply put, he's the best. No one brings the amount of passion and energy to a live show like Brooks. His voice and songs -- even 20 years after the release of his first album -- pretty much define what the biggest music category in America, country, is today.
I'm sure there are cheap flights to Vegas, I'm booking mine soon!
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Posted by viewfromnyave on Oct. 17, 2009 at 5:48 a.m. (report)
"his voice defines what country music is today." Yeah, pop music. 95% of what gets played on commercial country radio could easily get played on Top 40/Adult Contemporary radio and often times there is bleed over (think Shania Twain, Faith Hill, that Taylor Swift kid, even Garth Brooks...the guy had multiple #1 albums on the Billboard 200, you don't achieve that without some crossover radio success). I'm not arguing that Garth Brooks sounds like country radio, my point is that country radio sounds a lot like pop music. But hey, in the end, what does it matter, the definition of "pop" music has changed over the last 50 years and will keep changing.
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Posted by sandstorm on Oct. 16, 2009 at 11:16 a.m. (report)
no View, he said it correctly. his voice defines what country music is today. if he had said his voice defines what pop is today that would be incorrect as Brooks sounds nothing like Timberlake, Beyonce, or the friggin' Black Eyed Peas.
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Posted by viewfromnyave on Oct. 15, 2009 at 1:59 p.m. (report)
"His voice and songs -- even 20 years after the release of his first album -- pretty much define what the biggest music category in America, country, is today." You meant to say pop music, right?
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Posted by brunocarlson on Oct. 15, 2009 at 1:04 p.m. (report)
The question is, will Chris Gaines open for him?
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Posted by hasensmith on Oct. 15, 2009 at 12:45 p.m. (report)
The Best?! Spoken like a guy squarely in the mainstream!
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