{"id":14968,"date":"2019-05-07T12:14:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T18:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1806173"},"modified":"2019-05-07T12:14:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T18:14:59","slug":"what-it-sounds-like-when-garth-brooks-loves-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/what-it-sounds-like-when-garth-brooks-loves-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What It Sounds Like When Garth Brooks Loves You"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:673299?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/bonaguroa\/\" title=\"Posts by Alison Bonaguro\" rel=\"author\">Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">15m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re lucky, one day you might get to open shows for Garth Brooks.<\/p>\n<p>And if you\u2019re willing to work really, really hard, one day you might get Brooks to think the world of you.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how things happened for the six-man country band King Calaway on Friday (May 3) in Minneapolis, and he introduced the group with his signature Brooks enthusiasm. \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever done this in my career, but I\u2019ve watched these next six guys rent a hall that they couldn\u2019t afford back in Nashville, and practice every day for four days straight, just for this show tonight,\u201d Brooks told the sold-out crowd. \u201cThese guys are brand new, and if I was them I would be scared out of my wits right now. But I know they\u2019re getting ready to play for the greatest country music fans that we have on the this planet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou guys have given me some of the best nights of my life, what I\u2019m asking you, let\u2019s make this the best night of their lives. Ladies and Gentlemen, King Calaway.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mMQFZxMVOGw?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mMQFZxMVOGw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>That had to feel pretty damn good for the harmony-heavy boy band. So just how good? \u201cWe were all walking out of the tunnel and all of the sudden Garth said, \u2019I need a hot mic.\u2019 And we all kind of stood there not sure what was happening. Was he going to sing with us? And then out of nowhere he started introducing us and I think all of our jaws dropped. Jordan (Harvey) even started tearing up. We\u2019ve never seen Garth do that before. We\u2019re still in shock,\u201d said King Calaway\u2019s drummer Chris Deaton.<\/p>\n<p>As evidence by their tweets and retweets, the band is still not over it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Wooohoo!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KRQaaFzge4\">https:\/\/t.co\/KRQaaFzge4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 King Calaway (@KingCalaway) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingCalaway\/status\/1124661369826156640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">What a night! We are so overwhelmed by the support you guys showed us in Minneapolis. May 3, 2019 will be remembered for the rest of our lives. Thank you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garthbrooks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@garthbrooks<\/a> for your generosity and for introducing us on to the stage \u2013 the whole night was just surreal \u2764\ufe0f : Cece Dawson <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5L5Fqr7QFd\">pic.twitter.com\/5L5Fqr7QFd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 King Calaway (@KingCalaway) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingCalaway\/status\/1124725710118109186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 4, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Still cheesin\u2019 from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garthbrooks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@garthbrooks<\/a> show on Friday Looking forward to some big things ahead, stay tuned to hear more!!<br \/>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/double_c23?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@double_c23<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wlIkmqI18m\">pic.twitter.com\/wlIkmqI18m<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 King Calaway (@KingCalaway) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingCalaway\/status\/1125113259827314688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier this year, King Calaway debuted with the infectious \u201cWorld for Two,\u201d penned by Nashville hitmakers Ross Copperman, Josh Osborne and James Abrahart. What followed was a music video that paints their picture of what happens when you can make the hurt, the hate, the light and the noise disappear.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zCOfmCVBsvk?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zCOfmCVBsvk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Alison makes her living loving country music. She&#8217;s based in Chicago, but she&#8217;s always leaving her heart in Nashville.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1806173\/what-it-sounds-like-when-garth-brooks-loves-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 15m ago If you\u2019re lucky, one day you might get to open shows for Garth Brooks. And if you\u2019re willing to work really, really hard, one day you might get Brooks to think the world of you. That\u2019s how things happened for the six-man country band King Calaway on Friday (May 3) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 11:35:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}