He soaked it up.Īlthough his first single had landed in the top ten on the country charts, and another was making it’s way to number one, we’re talking about country music twenty-five years ago.

But not for this marketing major from Oklahoma. For most musicians, this part of the music industry was a drag, best left to the bean counters. We were the unit of Capitol-EMI Music that made sure his albums were on the shelves, displayed, advertised, promoted and available for purchase. Very interested in what we did in that office, he wandered around, introduced himself to everybody and asked a lot of questions. But from that first meeting, you knew he was different. Outside of the fact he was wearing Wranglers instead of Levis, he looked and talked like any other twenty nine year old musician trying to to catch a break in the music business. I first met Garth Brooks in a nondescript three-story glass office building in Burbank California, maybe eight or nine months after his first album had been released in April 1989. After that…well…I posted it at the bottom. At 1:55 she is seen standing at the edge of the stage. It can be seen exactly at the 1:16 mark, and the words are written all in upper case letters. On the cell phone video, shot in Minneapolis and seen by over five million people in just five days, you first get a glimpse of the woman holding up the sign projected on a huge screen behind the drummer.

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