History Trivia / GarthBrooks

** Every album except ''No Fences'', ''In the Life of Chris Gaines'', and ''Man Against Machine'' has had at least one song written by Kent Blazy. Other frequent writing partners include Kim Williams, Victoria Shaw, Stephanie Davis, and Tony Arata.

** He has used many of the same session musicians from day one (again barring the Chris Gaines album), a group known collectively as the "G-Men": Bruce Bouton (steel guitar; also a member of his road band), Mark Casstevens (acoustic guitar), Mike Chapman (bass guitar), Rob Hajacos (fiddle), Chris Leuzinger (lead guitar), Milton Sledge (drums), and Bobby Wood (keyboards). Most of his backing vocals are provided by Robert Bailey and Vicki Hampton (who also serve this capacity in his road band), as well as Music/TrishaYearwood even before he married her.

** How would Chris Gaines be treated if ''The Lamb'' were actually made?

** Garth name drops two of Chris' songs in his tribute to him, "Good Ride Cowboy": And from "Bareback Jack" to "This Cowboy's Hat"... He also name drops one of his own songs, "Much Too Young (to Feel This Damn Old)", which itself name-drops Chris.

** Every album except ''No Fences'', ''In the Life of Chris Gaines'', and ''Man Against Machine'' has had at least one song written by Kent Blazy. Other frequent writing partners include Kim Williams, Victoria Shaw, Stephanie Davis, Bryan Kennedy, and Tony Arata.

** Every album except ''No Fences'', ''In the Life of Chris Gaines'', and ''Man Against Machine'' has had at least one song written by Kent Blazy.

** He has used many of the same session musicians from day one (again barring the Chris Gaines album), a group known collectively as the "G-Men": Bruce Bouton (steel guitar), Mark Casstevens (acoustic guitar), Mike Chapman (bass guitar), Rob Hajacos (fiddle), Chris Leuzinger (lead guitar), Milton Sledge (drums), and Bobby Wood (keyboards). Most of his backing vocals are provided by Robert Bailey and Vicki Hampton (who also serve this capacity in his road band), as well as Music/TrishaYearwood even before he married her.

** All of his albums were produced by Allen Reynolds except for ''In the Life of Chris Gaines'', ''Man Against Machine'', and ''Gunslinger''. The former was produced by Don Was of Music/WasNotWas, and the latter two were produced by his sound engineer Mark Miller (not the lead singer of Sawyer Brown), who has also been with him from day one.

* ProductionPosse: In addition to being produced by Allen Reynolds on nearly every album, Garth also included a song written by Kent Blazy on every album except ''No Fences'' and ''In the Life of Chris Gaines''. Other writers that he returned to frequently included Stephanie Davis and Pat Alger. He also included several of the same musicians from album to album (most notably backing vocals from Music/TrishaYearwood). Early in his career, his first wife Sandy Mahl helped write a few songs for him as well.

* ProductionPosse: In addition to being produced by Allen Reynolds on nearly every album, Garth also included a song written by Kent Blazy on nearly every album. Other writers that he returned to frequently included Stephanie Davis and Pat Alger. He also included several of the same musicians from album to album, most notably Music/TrishaYearwood as a backing vocalist. Early in his career, his first wife Sandy Mahl helped write a few songs for him as well.

* ThrowItIn: "Friends in Low Places" has an audible click near the end when someone opens a beer can. Garth also screams "Push, Marie!" a few seconds later, in reference to his guitarist's wife, who was in the hospital at the time.

* CreatorCouple: He married fellow country singer TrishaYearwood.

* ProductionPosse: In addition to being produced by Allen Reynolds on nearly every album, Garth also included a song written by Kent Blazy on nearly every album. Other writers that he returned to frequently included Stephanie Davis and Pat Alger. He also included several of the same musicians from album to album, most notably Music/TrishaYearwood as a backing vocalist.

* CreatorBreakdown: A few fictional examples from ''In The Life Of Chris Gaines'': Chris performed "Maybe" for his ''Straight Jacket'' album after one of his fellow band members from Crush died in an airplane accident. Then Chris created the ''Fornucopia'' album after his father passed away from cancer. The ''Apostle'' album came a few years after Chis was involved in an automobile accident and had to go through reconstructive surgery.

* ThrowItIn: "Friends in Low Places" has an audible click, which according to some sources is a beer being opened and/or spilled on a mic. He also screams "Push, Marie!" a few seconds later, in reference to a backing singer who was 9 months pregnant at the time.

** "It's Your Song" was released to radio in two forms: the live recording from ''Double Live'', and an alternate studio version which is now very hard to find. (And people want to find it, since he [[{{Corpsing}} corpses]] during the live version.

** "It's Your Song" was released to radio in two forms: the live recording from ''Double Live'', and an alternate studio version which is now very hard to find.

* CreatorCouple: He married fellow country singer Trisha Yearwood.

* CreatorCouples: He married fellow country singer Trisha Yearwood.

** "Mr. Right", off of the ''Ropin' the Wind'' album, has Garth chuckling and saying "You guys!" in the pause after the instrumental break in the second chorus.