Garth Brooks Says 2023 Will Be The Busiest Of His Career

Garth Brooks chatted with fans on his weekly Studio G last night (1/9). He said, "I'll tell you right now, this will be the busiest year of our career." It's a big statement coming from a guy who's filled many years of his life on the road and in the studio. He added, "There are going to be so many things happening this year."

We already know this year will find him embarking on his first-of-its-kind Las Vegas residency, "Garth Brooks/Plus ONE." Later in the year, he and Trisha Yearwood are committed to a Habitat for Humanity building project on behalf of former President and First Lady Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. But what else does he have on tap? He does have his new downtown Nashville entertainment venue, Friends in Low Places. Brooks laughs, "This year, we get to open up, I hope."

Garth is also expecting to return to the recording studio this year. He offered, "The studio is going to be wide open this year. We're going to go in and just do a lot of things that probably never will see the light of day. But, to be honest with you, those are my favorite sessions." He added, "This'll probably be one of the heaviest years we've ever had 'cause everything's just coming around to an end or a beginning, which is cool."

Brooks announced his Las Vegas Residency in November. He announced it on Good Morning America, where he said he would take the stage with different band members and even some special guests throughout the upcoming residency. Garth said, "We're calling it the 'Plus ONE' because we're going to try something we've never tried before. The band is coming, but it's a one-man show. They're going to sit in the audience, so any time you want a fiddle just to come up and join you, any time you just want percussion and background to come up and sing, or it's just you -- or just bring the whole band up to do 'Friends in Low Places' -- this should be stupid."

Since the 1980s, country music has seen some pretty great mullets. Even when Keith Urban played shows in Australia in his early days before he came to America, he sported a mullet. Other country singers over the years sported mullets, including Alan Jackson, Travis Tritt, Toby Keith, and even Vince Gill.

According to The Guardian, the phrase "mullet" did not come from country music origins. Mullett websites generally credit the coining of this phrase to Mike D of the Beastie Boys. This came from the song "Mullet Head" on 1994's Ill Communication album, which described the haircut and those who wore it.

The hairstyle was first worn by French fashion guru Henri Mollet in the early seventies. The "Mollet" did not see much light apart from the french underground dance scene.

We count down what we believe are the top five country music mullets of all time.

It's hard to imagine Garth being a mullet guy, but in the early 1990s, when he sang the National Anthem at the Superbowl, he sported a mullet.

Billy Ray seemed to bring the country mullet to a crazed frenzy as he proudly wore it during his most significant years in country music in the mid-1990s. When you think of a mullet in country music, he is the first image many minds see.

Yeah, Tim rocked the mullet when he first came into country music in the early 1990s and set the world on fire with "Indian Outlaw" in 1994.

Morgan seems to have brought the mullet back to country music after a ten-year lull in the hairstyle, and we love him for it.

When he donned a fake mullet for the video of his song "No Body" in 2022, it brought everyone back to his early career when his big beautiful mullet was worn proudly on his first couple of album covers.