Word: mahle
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Country ran in his family. His mom, Colleen Carroll Brooks, was a '50s-era singer who performed with Red Foley on Ozark Jubilee. When he married his sweetheart Sandy Mahl in 1986, he confesses, "it was the last thing I wanted to do. I hated being tied down." But it was Mahl who kept his hope alive when he wanted to quit Nashville for a while, look for a regular job back home in Oklahoma and maybe try the music business again later. "I'm not makin' this trip every year," she told him. "Either we're diggin...
...says, before launching into a sketch of his college experience ("I was a javelin thrower; at least I wore a uniform that said I was"); his early years with music ("Stunk at everything I did. Music was the one thing I felt proud of"); his first encounter with Sandy Mahl, whom he would marry in 1986 (Brooks was a bouncer in a club. She threw a punch that went through a wall. But "I don't want anyone to think she's not a lady"); and his hungry times before breaking through, when he "went to Nashville expecting...
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