( Bart Sherkow / Shutterstock)īrooks graduated OSU in 1984 with an advertising degree, and the following year he began to play the local circuit. At OSU, his roommate, Ty England, played guitar and would soon become Brooks’s sideman. His family held weekly talent shows that all the kids had to take part in consequently, Brooks learned to play banjo and guitar. But the other side of Brooks was that his mother was Colleen McElroy Carroll, a country singer who had been signed to Capitol Records and performed on television shows like Ozark Jubilee. He even went to Oklahoma State University on a track scholarship, specializing in javelin. Born in 1962 in Oklahoma, Brooks would stand out in track and field, baseball, and football. If you knew Troyal Garth Brooks in high school, you might be forgiven for thinking of him as an athlete rather than a music guy. And even though his debut album was a hit, Brooks truly ascended to next-level stardom with his second effort, No Fences, which hit stores 30 years ago this week. He is, after all, the youngest person to receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.
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That he’s the best-selling solo albums artist in the history of the United States? That only The Beatles have sold more albums? What about the fact that he’s the only artist to sell 10 million copies each of nine different albums? Then there’s the pick-up truck full of Grammys, American Music Awards, and gold and platinum records, and that’s before you get to the swelling list of Hall of Fame inductions.
It’s hard to decide exactly where to start with Garth Brooks.
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