Garth Brooks Packs Into Gruene Hall

Promotional tour takes tiny town by storm

"...Garth Brooks’ Dive Bar Tour rolled into the tiny town..."

Sept. 24, 2019 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Garth Brooks to Keynote SXSW

DMC, Warren G, and T.I. also added as conference speakers

"...South by Southwest has roped in Garth Brooks for a keynote conversation at the music conference..."

March 2, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW News: Garth Brooks Performing at Auditorium Shores on Saturday

Country icon stages his own version of Willie’s Picnic

"...San Antonio, Dallas, Houston, or even Lubbock to catch Garth Brooks in concert. Not this time. South by Southwest..."

March 17, 2017 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

SXSW Music Live: Garth Brooks

Stage antics get winded but not his bestselling catalog

"...last-minute free concert at Auditorium Shores on Saturday night, Garth Brooks at 55 is a necessarily different entertainer than..."

March 19, 2017 SXSW Post by Doug Freeman

SXSW Music Keynote: Garth Brooks

Country music standard talks up songwriters

"...to try and preserve that [art],” exhorted country superstar Garth Brooks backstage at the Austin Convention Center before his..."

March 18, 2017 SXSW Post by Bryan Rolli

Playback – SXSW Recap: Love, Hate, Garth & Trump

Final love / hate SXSW listicles

"...by Southwest is the hippest, coolest thing around," grinned Garth Brooks while surveying 15,000 spectators that cast a distinctly..."

March 24, 2017 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

On the 12th Day of Christmas

"...Bush Jr. That day, new releases from industry giants Garth Brooks, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, and Jewel all hit..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Garth Brooks / Clint Black, Austin City Limits, November 3 / November 8

"...Garth Brooks/Clint BlackAustin City Limits, November 3/November 8 This Chris..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Music Review by Christopher Gray

Playback: Starf**king SXSW

SXSW’s bubble burst? Sure, okay – if you say so. Leave the starfucking to us, then.

"...2017 – per sales volume – is country icon Garth Brooks. The alter ego of unsuccessful smooth-pop singer Chris..."

March 17, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Faces of "New" Country Buck and Hag Revisted by Lee Nichols

"...Nashville scene gets him pretty heated. He refers to Garth Brooks as "the anti-Hank"; he calls Garth's numerous clones..."

May 26, 1995 Music Feature

Playback: Austin Music Awards (On Everything)

Austin Music Industry Awards down, here come the 2016/17 AMAs and a slew of SXSW buzz acts

"...11th hour SXSW headliners are still streaming in. Garth Brooks joins for a keynote conversation with Amazon VP..."

March 10, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Garth Brooks The Magic of Christmas (Capitol) / George Strait Merry Christmas Wherever You Are (MCA)

Xmas Records

"...Garth BrooksThe Magic of Christmas (Capitol)George StraitMerry Christmas Wherever You..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Music Review by Christopher Gray

As Charlie Jones Exits C3, He Traces His Journey From College Station to Founding ACL Fest

Leaving the music promotions empire he helped build, Jones begins his new events company, Four Leaf

"...a one-band [affair]. I need $1 million to book Garth Brooks or U2 and do a really big show."..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Keith Urban Announces SXSW Show

Superstar follows up 2017’s Garth Brooks appearance

"...10th studio LP, Graffiti U, arrives this year. Like Garth Brooks’ free SXSW concert last year, the appearance in..."

March 8, 2018 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Darren Aronofsky Speaking at SXSW

Mother! director, plus Keith Urban and more added

"...in the country-strong spirit of last year's music keynote, Garth Brooks, now multiplatinum singer-songwriter Keith Urban joins the speaker..."

Oct. 10, 2017 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: Barebacking SXSW

PEWOL (pronounced "pee wall"), which stands for "people without lanyards"

"...all-you-can-eat McDonald's french fries, bottomless Bud Light, and a Garth Brooks fanny pack...."

March 17, 2017 Column by The Luv Doc

The LuvDoc's Celebrity Corner

An interview with Rachel McGruder, Asst. Events Manager

"...go look them up? LuvDoc: Ratt, Quiet Riot, Poison, Garth Brooks, Color Me Badd... Rachel: Holy crap.  I did..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Chronolog Post by The Luv Doc

Funny How Time Slips Away

ACL staff members reflect on their first memories of Studio 6A

"...Sharon Cullen, Audio Supervisor “January 16, 1990. Garth Brooks, before he was GARTH BROOKS. He was a..."

Nov. 11, 2010 Music Post by Austin Powell

Murder on Music Row

Nashville, we have a problem.

"...country music since the early-Nineties "hat act" explosion of Garth Brooks, Clint Black, Tim McGraw, John Michael Montgomery, and..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Black Elvis

"...like that, rap, rock, or country. It's like seeing Garth Brooks. You say, "Oh, shit! It's fuckin' Garth Brooks."..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

With a Bullet

Cross your fingers, Monte Warden and Bruce Robison may be headed for No. 1 with George Strait

"..."Garth Brooks recorded one of my songs, and the record..."

April 2, 2004 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Old Man River

Once an outlaw, always an outlaw: The Return of Steven Fromholz

"...sights low, his most ambitious pitch will be to Garth Brooks, who Fromholz hopes will consider cutting A Guest..."

April 20, 2001 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Dancing About Architecture

George Jones comes to Austin and everyone gets arrested in the melee. Meanwhile, Matthew McConaughey gets naked and busted, and Austin's answer to Santana, Vallejo, signs with Gloria Estefan's Sony imprint. Maybe K-NACK, a local alt.rock station from earlier this decade, can play them online as the station returns -- on the Internet.

"...hit "The Saga Begins") recently delighted his biggest fan Garth Brooks by joining him onstage at a big show,..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Conventional Wisdom

Why There's No Oldies Country Radio

"...the stations in question were AM. "We were playing Garth Brooks and Neal McCoy," explains Roddy, "the people you..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

Bonus Tracks

"...He's been called the "Anti-Garth" by the Chicago Tribune while on tour recently; no..."

Aug. 25, 1995 Music Feature

SXSW Adds 102 Movies to 2019 Film Festival Lineup

After Us, what else does the film fest have in store?

"...madcap revolutionary dreams. Cast: Marchánt Davis, Anna Kendrick, Danielle Brooks, Denis O'Hare (World Premiere)..."

Jan. 16, 2019 SXSW Post by Richard Whittaker

Behind the Scenes

They're not exactly famous, but onetime Austinites Buddy and Julie Miller make some of the most authentic country music around.

"...Their credentials, though, include folks like the Dixie Chicks, Brooks and Dunn, Jim Lauderdale, and Emmylou Harris. 1999 started..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

More a Man Than a Legend

Observing as the golden-throated Flatlander becomes a record-label executive

"...songwriting team, the Millers have had artists such as Garth Brooks, the Dixie Chicks, and Brooks & Dunn record..."

Feb. 25, 2000 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Dancing About Architecture

The Butthole Surfers find themselves uncovered, Don Walser takes a dive, and time and music march on.

"...You'd think that the line to get tickets for Garth Brooks' Austin City Limits show would have been a..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Texas Platters

"...the same pasty yardstick as country's newest stars -- Brooks & Dunn, Clint Black, Garth Brooks, and Reba McEntire..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Music Feature

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