Brooks saw success with his self-titled debut album in 1989. It peaked at No. 2 on the country chart and No. 13 on the all-genre chart. However, that was just a hint of what was to come. No Fences was ...

Brooks released his self-titled debut album in 1989 and found immediate success. The album peaked at No. 3 on the Top Country Albums chart. Additionally, it narrowly missed the top 10 of the Billboard ...

Garth Brooks' 1990 number one hit has a doozy of an origin story. Brooks was riding high on the success of his self-titled debut album (with its hit "The Dance") when he was in the studio recording ...

It was 25 years ago, almost exactly to this week, that Garth Brooks‘ “Friends in Low Places” reached the No. 1 spot on the Billboard country charts. With it, the Oklahoma native shot into a realm of ...

FARGO - Mike Morse remembers where he was when he first heard of Garth Brooks. It was 1990 and Morse, now guitarist for the Fargo-based country group The Roosters, was playing five nights a week in a ...

Garth Brooks has recorded his fair share of heartbreaking country songs, but there’s one track that rises above the rest, a song so emotional it still leaves listeners reaching for their tissues. In ...

The 1990s are known for a lot of things: the rise of the internet, the fall of the Soviet Union, and, of course, killer country music. It was a golden era for the genre—so golden, in fact, that we ...

Dave Gant has a pretty cool job, and it led to an even cooler connection to Omaha. Gant is the musical director for Garth Brooks’ band, in which he also plays keyboards and fiddle. That position, ...

In one of their earliest public photos together, then-friends Garth and Trisha shared a hug on the red carpet of the 25th annual American Music Awards. The duo met in Nashville in 1987 during a demo ...