Garth Brooks: His Special Song For ‘Mom’
As Mother’s Day approaches this Sunday (5/9), Garth Brooks is thinking about his mom Colleen who passed away in August of 1999. Garth’s mom was his biggest cheerleader and in…
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As Mother's Day approaches this Sunday (5/9), Garth Brooks is thinking about his mom Colleen who passed away in August of 1999.
Garth’s mom was his biggest cheerleader and in the 1950's she was actually a country singer on the Capitol Records label in Nashville.
Brooks also felt her lasting impact as it echoes through his voice every time he performs his 2014 song “Mom.” He said of the song, “I was by myself in Oklahoma…sat around the dining room table and just cried like a baby. I love my mom, but it’s also pretty cool because when you have your kid, you’re everything…sometimes you have to be Mom; sometimes you have to be Dad. That song just kills me.”
Garth also talked about the song when he performed it on the Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2015.
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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.
