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Garth Brooks Announces New ‘Dive Bar’ Stop For December

Garth Brooks has announced a new stop on his Dive Bar tour, and the folks in San Jose, California are in for a treat. Garth will play a bar called…

Garth Brooks Announces New 'Dive Bar' Stop For December
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Garth Brooks has announced a new stop on his Dive Bar tour, and the folks in San Jose, California are in for a treat. Garth will play a bar called “The Rodeo Club” in San Jose, California on December 16, 2021. 

As with all of his Dive Bar Tour shows over the last couple of years, tickets won’t be sold – the only way in is to win them on country radio. 

Brooks described what it felt like to be back on stage in a Dive Bar last month in Oklahoma City. He said, “That thing was the loudest thing I’ve ever been a part of. And I’m talkin’ about including any stadium you want! That was the loudest thing I’ve ever been a part of. I had to put my fingers in my ears a couple of times. It was great!”

 Garth added, “Get ready, ’cause ’22 is gonna be our last Stadium Tour, and then trying to figure out what to do after ’22? I’d love to do an old-fashioned Dive Bar Tour. I mean, just where you do 75 of ’em in a year. That would be a blast! ’Cause rolling into a dive bar – it’s so much fun, man.”

Broks posted to Twitter, "It’s the roar of a #DiveBar crowd!" 

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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.