Country star Garth Brooks says

When Garth Brooks made the decision in 2014 to return to Country music after 14 years, he found a remarkably different world than the one he knew.

The singer-songwriter announced his retirement in 2000 when he was at the top of his game at the top of his game in the 90s and published mega hits such as “Friends in Low Places” and “The River”. After taking care of his three daughters in his home state of Oklahoma for a few years in his home state, Brooks moved to Nashville after his youngest child had made the decision to visit Belmont University in the city.

When he arrived, he found that Music City had been transformed into a “chopped -out city”.

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Garth Brooks will perform at the ASCAP Centennial Awards in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City on November 17, 2014. (Kevin Mazur/Getty pictures for ASCAP)

As Brooks wrote in his new book “The Anthology Part V” after he and his wife, the country superstar Trisha Yearwood, had returned to Nashville, “I saw that we had lost over 80 percent of our songwriters. They were gone.”

He continued: “It was a disturbed city when it came to songwriters. And I’m sorry to try to feed the world without farmers.

“As much as I love songwriting and as much as I love the publishers that push your songs independently, what happened to the songwriter is technology.”

– Garth Brooks

Brooks touched the same topic again in another part of the book and said again that Nashville was “disappointed” when he returned from Oklahoma. He wrote that he was “how songwriters deserved his livelihood and how dreams came true”, but in 2014 he could only “see” everything we had lost.

Garth Brooks appeared on January 1, 1989 for the parade of the Pennies in Nashville, Tennessee. (Beth Gwinn/Getty Images)

Later in the book, when he discussed his comeback album and his title track “Man Against Machine”, Brooks explained more about what had changed in the 14 years in which he was gone: technology.

“As much as I love songwriting, as much as I love the publishers that push their songs independently, what happened to the songwriter is technology,” said the singer-songwriter. “I looked from the sidelines for fourteen years when music of the technology fell victim to.”

“The iPod appears what leads to the smartphone. And music made the mistake of resetting yourself to the technology, because the threat that the technology made for music was: ‘If you don’t want to play our game, all iPods and smartphones are filled with illegally downloaded things. And we cannot do anything about it.”

He added: “Music blinked and bam! You let the technology praise your product. And everything I can say is: Can you believe that ‘Hotel California’ is only worth 99 cents?

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Garth Brooks became a massive country superstar in the 1990s before retiring for 14 years to raise his three daughters in his home country Oklahoma. (Bob King/Redferners)

Brooks fought with the navigation through the change in the music industry, since he also dealt with all the changes in his personal life – the step of Oklahoma to Tennessee and his last child who left at home (he admitted that “the empty nest hit me much harder when I ever dreamed”) – but he said that the idea of ​​streaming, maybe the music was to stream, perhaps Streaming was. “

At a time when the fans had to buy physical copies of albums and singles and had to go into a new era when so much concentrated on digital products, he was too that he “did not go through”.

In order to combat the problems he saw with digital music, Brooks Ghostunes started in September 2014, his own digital music business, with the intention of giving songwriters and artists a larger part of money from the sale of music. In 2017, Ghosttunes was recorded in Amazon music, but as he wrote in “The Anthology Part V”, he does not consider it a failed business company.

Garth Brooks talks to the media on September 4, 2014 during his press conference of the World Tour in the Allstatians Arena in Rosemont, Illinois. (David Banks/Getty Images)

“Anyone who calls Ghostunes a mistake cannot see writing on the wall, this technology is the music at this point. At that time, the genius is so far out of the bottle.

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Also in September 2014, Brooks started the Garth Brooks World Tour-Seine first since his previous world tour in 1998. He remembered that he “was frightened than he showed up” when he announced new concerts for the first time, and was set up as a ticket quota for the first show to perform in Chicago.

When the tickets were sold, there were over 300,000.

Garth Brooks appears on September 4, 2014 in the Allstatian Arena in Rosemont, Illinois. (Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images)

Brooks added shows to satisfy the demand and finally carry out 11 concerts in Chicago alone. With regard to the decision to start the tour in the city, Marci Braun, a program director for US99, explained a radio station in Chicago that was commissioned for the tour.

In the end, the comeback tour lasted three years and ended with seven Nashville shows in December 2017. Randy Bernard, one of Brooks managers, said: “Garth came bigger than he went.

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In 2016, Brooks won the entertainer of the Year of the Country Music Association Etwas, which he had won four times in the 1990s, but he urged in 2016 because of his band and his crew, which he said.

Brooks won the award again in 2017 and 2019. In 2020 he announced that he no longer wanted to be considered for honor.

Garth Brooks won the price of the Country Music Association of the Entertainer of the Year seven times before having permanently dismissed the exam for the award. (Getty Images)

Brooks believes that the work he and his team did during this lengthy comeback tour ultimately made his return to music such a great success story.

“The only thing nobody can take away, that nobody except you is ruling live“He announced.” The live show, then it is only you and the people who determine whether your stuff is a success or failure. … it’s about passion. Every time everything is at stake. You only go directly to the people. “

Brooks continued: “Live music was there in front of the radio, probably back in front of the records.

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