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Garth Brooks And Trisha Yearwood Inspire Hope On Live CBS TV Special

Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood played live on CBS during prime-time tonight (4/1) taking fan’s requests and playing some of their own favorites. The couple sang many songs including Garth’s…

Garth Brooks And Trisha Yearwood Inspire Hope On Live CBS TV Special
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Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood played live on CBS during prime-time tonight (4/1) taking fan's requests and playing some of their own favorites.

The couple sang many songs including Garth's The Dance" and Trisha's first chart topper "She's In Love With The Boy."

With a crew of just a few sharing fans thoughts and requests online and live, Brooks and Yearwood sang the Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga duet "Shallows" and many more covers and some of their biggest hits like Garth's The Dance."

One special moment was when Garth started to sing "To Make You Feel My Love," a song that Trisha said was her favorite and no matter where she is when they perform live together, she finds her way to the stage to hear him sing it. The song was featured in the 1998 movie "Hope Floats."

After an hour of singing, Trisha ended the live TV show from a Nashville studio by singing a request from her own sister Betty, Judy Garland's "Somewhere Over The Rainbow," as her sister said it was a song of hope.

In closing, Brooks said that the money raised from this live TV show was going to the COVID-19 Fund.

He then said that the last time when he was performing live and life was normal before the virus, one of the most encouraging things he heard was from friend Keith Urban who he noted said it best with, "Together We Are Stronger."

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.