And then on my own, I discovered George Strait. Mom was listening to Belafonte, Mahalia Jackson. Dad was listening to Haggard Jones, Buck Owens. Of course, he didn't, and seven years later Brooks was named Artist of the Decade.Īnd every kind of music: 'James Taylor and Creedence, Janice Joplin. Today, Pauley noted, 'You were a man with the world by the tail. 'If it wasn't for the people that come see me and my love for them, I would've been out of this business a year-and-a-half ago,' he told Pauley then.

The other parts were on his mind when Brooks and Pauley first met 30 years ago, in 1992, for 'Dateline NBC.' After rocketing to the top of the music scene, he didn't like what he saw. And I kinda love the differences, because that's the fun part of it.' Garth Brooks.

That's why there's more than just one of us down here. They say the hardest question on the planet is, 'Why are we down here?' That's the easiest one. 'How can I pay back? Well, if you come down here on Lower Broadway and there's not a Friends In Low Places, are you kidding me?' 'If you're lucky enough to get to sell some records in this town, you owe this town,' he said. The 61-year-old Oklahoman was a new name in town some 30 years ago, on the road to becoming the best-selling solo recording artist of all time – 157 million albums and counting. 'A honky-tonk's probably got a dance floor, a little bit bigger, right? It's modeled like a dance hall.' Garth Brooks shows Jane Pauley the construction of the Friends In Low Places Bar & Honky-Tonk in Nashville.

'A bar's a place usually where just locals come, like you saw in 'Cheers,'' Brooks replied. Pauley asked, 'What is the difference between a bar and a honky-tonk?' ''Friends In Low Places,' for me, is a chapter in country music. Named after his 1990 country hit, Garth Brooks' Friends In Low Places Bar & Honky-Tonk was still a work in progress last month when 'Sunday Morning' visited. Bars and honky-tonks, already pulsing with music at mid-day, line Nashville's Lower Broadway.

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