Listen To Garth Brooks’ Mother’s 1950s Nashville Recording
Garth Brooks’ mom, Colleen, was his biggest cheerleader. She was also a singer in Nashville and had a record contract.
As Brooks offered in a Mother’s Day press release, even though she passed away years ago at the age of 70 from cancer, the superstar and his family have found their own unique way of celebrating Colleen.
Garth said, “What we’ve done is we’ve used her birthday as a chance to get everybody together. ‘Cause when Mom left, the family pretty much just kinda went apart, you know, ’cause she’s like – moms are always the glue. So [on] her birthday, everybody kinda gets together…and it’s a great day.”
His mother was known in Nashville as Colleen Carroll. We found a recording of her from the 1950s.
Garth Brooks Top 30 Songs
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.
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