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I suppose it's time.  I've never bought one of his records, but I may buy a few drinks in his bar someday. I noticed him trending on twitter, and here's what I found:

 

Country superstar Garth Brooks has stated that his new Nashville bar will sell Bud Light, and that the establishment will not tolerate transphobia.

Brooks made the revelation during a panel at Billboard Country Live this week. His “Friends in Low Places Bar & Honky-Tonk” is named after one of his biggest hits, and the venue is scheduled to open in Nashville’s Lower Broadway area this summer. Many country artists have opened bars in the area bearing their names.

“I want it to be a place you feel safe in, I want it to be a place where you feel like there are manners and people like one another,” Brooks said on the panel. “And yes, we’re going to serve every brand of beer. We just are. It’s not our decision to make. Our thing is this, if you [are let] into this house, love one another. If you’re an asshole, there are plenty of other places on lower Broadway.”

Bud Light has been hemorrhaging customers since its ill-fated marketing decision to team with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney, offending some conservatives. In Nashville, bars owned by John Rich and Kid Rock no longer serve Bud Light.

Fox News Digital found John Rich at his bar on Friday and asked him about the Brooks statement.

“If Garth is serving Bud Light in his bar, that’s fine,” Rich said. “Garth can do that. Garth might find out not many people are going to order it. And at the end of the day, you have to put things in your establishment that people are going to purchase if you’re going to run a successful business. So, he might find that out.”

 

Imagine Garth Brooks needing John Rich's advice about anything.

 
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I remember driving back to Austin from Tx/OU one year with dormmates and we were singing along to that first Garth Brooks CD at the top of our lungs the whole way.  It was also the year I saw some guy hanging off the entrance gate to the state fair yelling at the Okies to "Get the fuck out of our state" after the game. Good times, good times.

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The double live Cd from Ireland got worn out in high school. The crowd energy durning every song was insane.

 

That said this is not anything new from Garth probably the most tolerant and left leaning country musician. He wrote a song in the early 90s defending his sister being gay. He did that video for standing outside the fire using a special Olympic kid to be the sports star. 
 

People trying to cancel Garth now don't know anything about him other than they love singing friends in low places when hammered.

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1 hour ago, Covri said:

People trying to cancel Garth now don't know anything about him other than they love singing friends in low places when hammered.

Dude loves country and rock music (check out his part in the American Pie/Don McClean documentary) and I've heard he's just the nicest guy from a few relatives in Oklahoma who know him. I liked to shit on him in the past for helping open the door for people like Toby Keith, but I don't any more.

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Sentimental populist music, no great singer, certainly not a great writer or musician . . . but by many accounts by people we know in common, a genuinely good dude, and his wife Trisha is equally good people.

John Rich is snide, bigoted garbage masquerading as a fun guy.

Team Garth.

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Not a fan of him (musical genre thing), but good for Garth. I did have to look up who the fuck John Rich is and judging from his overly manicured handlebar pornstache thing, I suspect he'll be making an appearance in the DT groomer thread at some point. 

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There’s this kind of weird arms war going on between country musicians on Broad st in Nashville about who can build higher, have a better rooftop deck, and get more people in the touristy clubs there. They all make stupid money there, but Kid Rock’s place is oddly the one everyone loves over Aldean’s or Miranda Lambert’s spot and a few others.

The Garth Brooks building looked pretty damn impressive but hadn’t opened up yet when I was enjoying their rainy, overcast, 8 dollar beer hell on earth winter.

no point to this post, if you’re in Nashville stick to Germantown if your close by Downtown and go to Neighbors

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Garth is good people.

And I don’t care how cheesy or uncool it is, I have fond memories of of drunk singing “Friends in Low Places” with my girlfriends back in college.

And it’s still a fun song to sing in the car.

He’s a good egg.

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6 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

There’s this kind of weird arms war going on between country musicians on Broad st in Nashville about who can build higher, have a better rooftop deck, and get more people in the touristy clubs there. They all make stupid money there, but Kid Rock’s place is oddly the one everyone loves over Aldean’s or Miranda Lambert’s spot and a few others.

The Garth Brooks building looked pretty damn impressive but hadn’t opened up yet when I was enjoying their rainy, overcast, 8 dollar beer hell on earth winter.

no point to this post, if you’re in Nashville stick to Germantown if your close by Downtown and go to Neighbors

LOL, now I never want to go to Nashville.

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1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Garth genuinely wants to bring everyone together and feels he’s the guy to do it. It’s a bit arrogant but he looks to have nothing but good intentions.

but on that note, Nashville comes across as a place that wouldn’t want to be near. And I love Vegas. 

vegas is transparent in its duplicity. there's nothing hypocritical about a place so honestly after every dollar in your pocket.

nashville is a cesspool.

but dammit, although garth's popularity skyrocketed country pop crap, there's still room for the dance. 

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There's a reason Garth is a legend in the music industry and John Rich is a punchline. And yeah, you can have The Dance when you pry it from my cold dead hands. And f you if you don't think Friends In Low Places isn't an instant signalong when it plays a bar/party. 

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I think there are a lot of people in country music that are similar to Garth but feel like they can't speak for fear of alienating their audience.  I personally know several.  GB is at a point in his music career where this isn't that risky for him.  Sure, he can be shunned, and people might blow up their listening devices with Tannerite, but he's got enough money accrued to fund several generations of his family after him.  This isn't that risky for him.  He's not risking the roof over his family's head, or the meals on their table, or the educational opportunities that can be afforded by his kids or their kids or their kids.  The vast majority of people involved in country music would be far more vulnerable if they tried to take GB's stance on things.

Which isn't to say he shouldn't be doing what he's doing.  He should.  I'm just saying that it's a hell of a lot easier to make a principled stand when you are free of financial want and worry.

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47 minutes ago, G650 said:

Calling Baton Rouge is one the greatest songs in American history and I'll fight anyone who disagrees

GB didn't write it.  New Grass Revival wrote it and had a minor hit with it.  Brooks heard it and wanted to cover it, but do it right, so he asked them to back him on the studio recording.  That helped them in their career.  His mention of Chris Ledoux in Much Too Young To Feel This Damn Old was also calculated to give a boost to an artist that he thought deserved more recognition.  Brooks is a good dude.

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8 minutes ago, G650 said:

You shouldn't have

Eh. I enjoyed learning he was as big of a nobody as I had assumed. Congrats on being half of a pop country loser duo who’s arguably biggest claim to fame is they were the song for college game day. It’s not even Scottie Pippen taking shots at Michael Jordan, more like Tony Kukoc. 

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I googled him too, and my life is a little poorer now for the knowledge.  Good thing is that at my age, I'll probably forget it soon enough.

 

I wish Dolly would stand up and speak her convictions.  You know they have to be fairly progressive when you consider her friends like Fonda and Tomlin.  I guess she's too worried Dollywood would go dark from all the MAGA types boycotting her.

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26 minutes ago, pyrohornIII said:

I googled him too, and my life is a little poorer now for the knowledge.  Good thing is that at my age, I'll probably forget it soon enough.

 

I wish Dolly would stand up and speak her convictions.  You know they have to be fairly progressive when you consider her friends like Fonda and Tomlin.  I guess she's too worried Dollywood would go dark from all the MAGA types boycotting her.

They already hate her as she's an advocate for literacy with her free books program, MAGA don't read, they're read to. 

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2 hours ago, Goredho said:

I think there are a lot of people in country music that are similar to Garth but feel like they can't speak for fear of alienating their audience.  I personally know several.  GB is at a point in his music career where this isn't that risky for him.  Sure, he can be shunned, and people might blow up their listening devices with Tannerite, but he's got enough money accrued to fund several generations of his family after him.  This isn't that risky for him.  He's not risking the roof over his family's head, or the meals on their table, or the educational opportunities that can be afforded by his kids or their kids or their kids.  The vast majority of people involved in country music would be far more vulnerable if they tried to take GB's stance on things.

Which isn't to say he shouldn't be doing what he's doing.  He should.  I'm just saying that it's a hell of a lot easier to make a principled stand when you are free of financial want and worry.

As best I can tell he’s made principled stands throughout his career. This is nothing new for him. He just has an audience that is more accepting of all people.

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2 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

Eh. I enjoyed learning he was as big of a nobody as I had assumed. Congrats on being half of a pop country loser duo who’s arguably biggest claim to fame is they were the song for college game day. It’s not even Scottie Pippen taking shots at Michael Jordan, more like Tony Kukoc. 

More like Bill Wennington.

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3 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

I had to google John Rich. 

3 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

Eh. I enjoyed learning he was as big of a nobody as I had assumed. Congrats on being half of a pop country loser duo who’s arguably biggest claim to fame is they were the song for college game day. It’s not even Scottie Pippen taking shots at Michael Jordan, more like Tony Kukoc. 

2 hours ago, Smax said:

I have never heard the name or have any idea who John Rich is

I don't follow country music closely at all, but yeah I had no idea who he was - it's like people were trying to make him out to be a star with the clickbait "country music star criticizes Garth Brooks" headlines. I was thinking it was an actual country music star, and not a weird looking dude who uses way too much makeup and whose claim to fame was some photos with Trump.

Of course, my knowledge of country music pretty much stops  at the end of the Ken Burns documentary. Looking at John Rich and other younger country celebrities like him who are raging MAGA types, that's a good thing.

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3 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

Eh. I enjoyed learning he was as big of a nobody as I had assumed. Congrats on being half of a pop country loser duo who’s arguably biggest claim to fame is they were the song for college game day. It’s not even Scottie Pippen taking shots at Michael Jordan, more like Tony Kukoc. 

I'll have you know sir that their song espn played as the WSOP intro during the early 00s poker boom was much bigger.

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