{"id":3697,"date":"2015-03-05T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-05T14:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/?p=3697"},"modified":"2015-03-04T10:38:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T16:38:53","slug":"a-short-list-of-my-favorite-garth-brooks-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2015\/03\/05\/a-short-list-of-my-favorite-garth-brooks-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"A Short List of My Favorite Garth Brooks Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I decided to analyze Garth Brooks\u2019 second album <em>No Fences<\/em> for my project, I\u2019ve found myself listening to a lot of Garth the past few days and I\u2019ve found myself reminiscing about all the songs that I have grown up on and loved throughout the years. So naturally I decided to compile a playlist of some of my favorite Garth songs to share with you guys.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Garth Brooks -Friends in Low Places\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4w8wcmZQ-pc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.7\">First and foremost, I want to put \u201cFriends in Low Places\u201d on here, which I\u2019m sure most of you are probably pretty familiar with. Not the regular album version though, but \u201cthe long version\u201d of the song that Garth only plays live. This version includes a third verse that not a whole lot of people know. I\u2019ve always found it really interesting that Garth has versions of certain songs he only plays live, such as \u201cFriends in Low Places\u201d and \u201cThe Thunder Rolls\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Belleau Wood\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YAQfPgvhz7s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBelleau Wood\u201d is a lesser-known Garth song that tells the story of a soldier in World War I at the Battle of Belleau Wood. I\u2019ve always really loved this song because it was my grandfather\u2019s (who served in WWII) favorite song.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PhdR5Fs_2dk\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PhdR5Fs_2dk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMuch Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)\u201d is the story about a cowboy who has been competing for years and just doesn&#8217;t have the strength to keep at it anymore with the stress of being away from home all the while watching a younger crowd taking over the business. My Dad really loves this song and I can always remember listening to it with him when I was younger.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uyWADizqtHk\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uyWADizqtHk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom\u201d is one of the singles off of Garth\u2019s newest album, and obviously I can\u2019t listen to it without thinking about my own mom. It\u2019s a very pretty and sad song and a perfect song to get everyone in a room to have a good cry, so if you\u2019re in that kind of mood, I highly recommend it, just make sure you have a phone nearby to make a call to your mom when it\u2019s over.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m4uhLf1uTLY\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m4uhLf1uTLY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cStanding Outside the Fire\u201d is probably the first Garth Brooks song I ever heard, and it\u2019s been one of my favorites for a long time. It\u2019s about living life to the fullest and is a sort of inspirational song.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/60119381\">https:\/\/vimeo.com\/60119381<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Dance\u201d is a song I thought would be a fitting finale to this short playlist. It\u2019s considered one of Garth\u2019s signature songs and is a good love\/heartbreak song.<\/p>\n<p>Garth Brooks has been one of my favorite country artists for as long as I can remember. He has had countless hits and has a sound that can\u2019t be copied or reproduced by anyone except Garth. He also has a good mix of different sounds in his music, fusing country music with rock and pop to create his distinct sound and style, and through the years he has kept making hit songs and without changing his style, and I really admire him for that. I\u2019ve also heard that he is an excellent live performer, so I\u2019m hoping he announces some Texas tour dates in the future so I can experience his one of a kind music for myself. I realize this is a pretty short playlist, but of course I couldn\u2019t fit all of my favorite songs on here, but do you guys like Garth Brooks and notice any songs I may have left out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I decided to analyze Garth Brooks\u2019 second album No Fences for my project, I\u2019ve found myself listening to a lot of Garth the past few days and I\u2019ve found myself reminiscing about all the songs that I have grown &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2015\/03\/05\/a-short-list-of-my-favorite-garth-brooks-songs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,63,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-music","category-music-videos","category-new-country"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3717,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3697\/revisions\/3717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}