{"id":18973,"date":"2019-10-02T06:46:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T12:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1812619"},"modified":"2019-10-02T06:46:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T12:46:37","slug":"garth-brooks-is-literally-living-his-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/garth-brooks-is-literally-living-his-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Garth Brooks Is Literally Living His Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:661613?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\">30m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a deep cut on Garth Brooks\u2019 1995 <em>Fresh Horses<\/em> album that I\u2019ve always loved. It\u2019s called \u201cThe Old Stuff,\u201d and he wrote it with Bryan Kennedy and Dan Roberts.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s about, as you can imagine, what it was like to play in the early days. Back when the old stuff was new. When, he says, it was: <em>Seven pickers and all our gear in a rental van, playin\u2019 music, never sleepin\u2019, and workin\u2019 on a neon tan\/We played The Barn down in Sanford, Florida, for Bev Roberts out in Camden Park, we plugged it in up east at Bull Run and the place went dark.<\/em> (And, oh, the stories he could tell if it weren\u2019t for the code of the road.)<\/p>\n<p>And now, he\u2019s headed back to The Barn in Sanford.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks just announced announced that that would be the next stop \u2014 the fourth one \u2014 on his Dive Bar tour. He\u2019ll be there on Oct. 16.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPound for pound, minute for minute, the dive bars are the most exciting gig I\u2019ve ever got to play,\u201d Brooks said. \u201cIt\u2019s total chaos from the second you go on to the second you go off.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">A LOT to reveal on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StudioG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StudioG<\/a> tonight! Kicking off with The Garth Brooks Biography trailer AND ending with where the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DiveBarTour?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DiveBarTour<\/a> is going next! From A to E!!!!! love, g<\/p>\n<p>Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8Djv0RjgLQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/8Djv0RjgLQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VKHZVJCKW2\">pic.twitter.com\/VKHZVJCKW2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Garth Brooks (@garthbrooks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garthbrooks\/status\/1178822825370673152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\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\/1812619\/garth-brooks-is-literally-living-his-lyrics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Alison Bonaguro 30m ago There\u2019s a deep cut on Garth Brooks\u2019 1995 Fresh Horses album that I\u2019ve always loved. It\u2019s called \u201cThe Old Stuff,\u201d and he wrote it with Bryan Kennedy and Dan Roberts. It\u2019s about, as you can imagine, what it was like to play in the early days. Back when the old [&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-18973","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 20:24:33","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\/18973","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=18973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}