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Garth Brooks ‘Dive Bar Tour’ Plays Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace

Garth Brooks played Buck Owens’ famed Crystal Palace honky-tonk in Bakersfield, California last night (8/15) the second stop on Garth Brooks’ seven-city “Dive Bar” Tour. Garth took the stage around…

Garth Brooks 'Dive Bar Tour' Plays Buck Owens' Crystal Palace

It’ll be awesome!

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Garth Brooks played Buck Owens’ famed Crystal Palace honky-tonk in Bakersfield, California last night (8/15) the second stop on Garth Brooks’ seven-city “Dive Bar” Tour.

Garth took the stage around 8:00pm, playing “All Day Long.” From there, he and his band filled the bar with everything from hits like “Rodeo, ” “Two of a Kind (Workin’ On a Full House)” and – of course – “Dive Bar”…before wrapping the night perfectly with “The Dance.”

Brooks said, "You get to play stadiums; you get to play dive bars. You get to play dive bars; you get to play stadiums. [If] you can have anything you want, that’s what you’d want!”

He posted to Instagram yesterday before the show a picture of he and the late Buck Owens, saying, "Hitting up Buck Owens’ place tonight! Buckersfield are YOU ready for #DiveBarTour!!!! I AM!!! love, g"

Last night after the show he posted, "I love EVERYTHING about this #DiveBarTour!!!! Thank YOU Bakersfield that was AWESOME!!!! love, g"

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.