{"id":18572,"date":"2019-09-18T11:19:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T17:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1812071"},"modified":"2019-09-18T11:19:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T17:19:22","slug":"seventeen-minutes-of-garth-brooks-and-kix-brooks-educating-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/seventeen-minutes-of-garth-brooks-and-kix-brooks-educating-us-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventeen Minutes of Garth Brooks and Kix Brooks Educating Us All"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:678126?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\">28m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>On a recent episode of <em>Kix TV<\/em> on YouTube, host Kix Brooks sat down for a casual conversation with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/garth\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Garth Brooks<\/a> and it\u2019s the best 17 minutes you will hear all day. Because these two have 58 years of experience making country music between them \u2014 Garth debuted in 1989 and Kix with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/brooks-and-dunn\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Brooks &amp; Dunn<\/a> in 1991 \u2014 they know what works, what doesn\u2019t work, why it all starts with a song(writer), and how the hell Garth convinced Blake Shelton to join him on his new \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1811700\/garth-brooks-and-blake-shelton-detail-their-deep-dive\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Dive Bar<\/a>\u201d duet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kw2x5LoSzQg?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\/kw2x5LoSzQg?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>In the conversation, Garth reveals that his whole career has been about just begging for a place to play. (Like he sings in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_HTJjUE2EJs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Old Stuff<\/a>.\u201d) And Kix shares his own version of the events that led the two of them to these leather chairs.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cowboysindians.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">current issue<\/a> of <em>Cowboys &amp; Indians<\/em>, Kix admitted that he will never look back on his career in country and rest on his laurels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t ever think, \u2019It\u2019s about time,&#8217;\u201d he said about some recent lifetime achievements. \u201cAll I ever hope for is to wake up tomorrow and write a good song. This kind of thing may be in the back of your mind, but if money and the Hall of Fame are your goals, I don\u2019t see how you ever achieve anything. You need to take small steps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His small steps started with this debut song in 1991:<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zR_477WqAE4?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=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zR_477WqAE4?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>And here is one of Garth\u2019s first performances of his debut single in 1989:<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4xqv7TauOIs?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\/4xqv7TauOIs?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<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/alisonbonaguro\" target=\"_BLANK\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@alisonbonaguro<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1812071\/seventeen-minutes-of-garth-brooks-and-kix-brooks-educating-us-all\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 28m ago On a recent episode of Kix TV on YouTube, host Kix Brooks sat down for a casual conversation with Garth Brooks and it\u2019s the best 17 minutes you will hear all day. Because these two have 58 years of experience making country music between them \u2014 Garth debuted in 1989 [&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-18572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 15:43:01","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\/18572","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=18572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}