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...baby boomers have discovered country, however, it is not just out of nostalgia. They have looked across the musical landscape and found a cast of artists who are very much like themselves. Today's hot country stars, Garth Brooks foremost among them, are more likely to be college graduates with IRAs than dropouts with prison records. They put Mercedes and Volvos in their videos and refer to wine and cafes as much as beer and honky-tonks. They worry about keeping in shape and, in an era of middle-class constriction, about keeping ahead. The women sing about their heartbreaks...
...defecting to country for years. But since 1990 the process has accelerated sharply. "Elvis Presley was the first time I saw this kind of reaction," says Jimmy Bowen, whose Nashville-based Liberty Records distributes Brooks. "Then I saw it again with the Beatles. And now I see it with Garth Brooks. When you turn on millions of people in a short period of time, that's called a phenomenon...
...Wind, no country album had ever entered Billboard's pop chart at No. 1. Since his recording debut a short three years ago, Brooks has moved more albums with more velocity than anyone else in the history of Nashville: when the figures for Ropin' are added to those for Garth Brooks and No Fences, his first and second releases, he has sold more than 16 million records...
...profile on prime-time television. First came CBS's Country Music Association Awards last October, which unexpectedly landed in the Nielsen Top 10. Then NBC got into the act: it launched a weekly prime- time variety show called Hot Country Nights and in January aired the special This Is Garth Brooks, which helped push the network to its highest Friday-night ratings in more than two years...
Here it is, almost a quarter-century later, and Garth Brooks, 30, is still the star of Funny Night, a family ritual from his childhood in Yukon (pop. 21,400), the Oklahoma City suburb where young Troyal Garth Brooks would knock himself out trying to outshine his sister and four brothers. Only difference now is that the venue's gotten bigger, and the stakes higher. Dramatically higher. Today this guy with the excess longitude under the chin is the new face of pop music...