When it’s time to place a call to Texas singer/songwriter/guitarist Dub Miller at the appointed interview time, a recording says that the number is unavailable. He quickly calls back about 30 seconds later, but wonders aloud if others calling him get the same message. “It could be Willie Nelson calling to record a duet and you’d miss it!” I offer. But it turns out, that’s not too crazy a thought.
Miller recalls how he was booked for a show years ago by Pat Butler, whose husband songwriter/producer Larry Butler was a running buddy of Nelson’s back in day. He also produced massive hits for Kenny Rogers and co-wrote with Chips Moman the B.J. Thomas hit “(Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song.”
The year 1986 was 35 years ago. If you re still reading and not passed out from surprise I ll continue. It was the year Oprah debuted on daytime television, the last time earth saw Halley s comet, and the year a then unknown, mustached, Garth Brooks covered, a then rising country music star named George Strait. Thirty-five years later, in 2021, the world shook.
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Don t get me wrong we realize that countless singers covered King George, even then, but how many went on to be Garth Brooks? One, one did.
Garth Brooks |Nobody In His Right Mind. (1986) Welp, since it s 2016 here s a flashback all the way back 30 years ago! 1986 on AM Oklahoma Garth Brooks sings with his old Santa Fe Band three years before Garth Brooks came out in stores!
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If you didn t know Garth and Cody Canada grew up in Yukon, Oklahoma. So Cody had a unique perspective on Garth s ascension. Monday night, before diving into his Garth tribute, Canada pulled back the curtain and shared a few of his hometown Garth stories and thoughts.
When I was 12 years-old the Yukon FFA held a Garth Brooks concert, I went to see that show. it was extremely over sold, and like the first time I saw George Strait I was enamored. It was so amazing to me, this dude in a cowboy hat, a hometown boy turn into the rock guy all of a sudden. The next year he was the biggest thing on the planet. - Cody Canada