According toWide Open Country, Brooks described childhood family music nights during a 1994 interview with Playboy.
The whole family got in on the act, in one way or another.
Kelly and I played the wax comb."
It’s no wonder that Brooks would go on to become such a talented musician.
Perhaps that’s when Brooks turned his sights (and his throwing arm) to the javelin throw.
Brooks met his future wifeSandy Mahlin his senior year.
Sheco-wrotethe song “I’ve Got a Good Thing Going” for the album.
She also helped write the song “That Summer” for Brooks' 1992 album “The Chase.”
“I was ready to head back the second time when the band fell apart.
She kept me out here,” he said.
As Nashville’sNews Channel 5points out, there are some huge names in country music who aren’t members.
For Brooks, membership in the Grand Ole Opry was truly the pinnacle of his young career.
That’s saying a lot, considering just how far his career has gone and continues to go.
Per theTennessean, it was while rocking his oldest shortly after her birth that he made her a promise.
For Brooks, nothing compares to being a father.
He toldPeoplein 2015, “Kids are the greatest joy and the greatest heartache you’ll ever have.”
There was no acknowledgement on the album that Brooks was the man behind the wig.
People were confused, the album flopped, and the movie was scrapped.
Despite the outcome, Brooks stood behind his dramatic transformation for the sake of art.
“So, if you’re going to play a character, you become that character in my book.
And, you do it without apology.”
He did anyway, though it wasn’t easy to actually say it out loud.
After all, he was walking away from one of the biggest careers in country music.
He toldPeopleyears later, “People said, ‘How could you walk away from music?’
But being a dad there’s nothing that can touch that.”
“And I was very grateful.”
“He’d be gone eight to 10 weeks at a time.
“But we both grew apart really, really quickly.”
It was as the divorce loomed when Brooks realized he couldn’t maintain the career he’d created.
The couple’s divorce was finalized in 2001.
Brooksproposed onstagein May 2005, and the couplegot marriedthat December.
Miss Yearwood, as Brooks and his daughters call her, has loved becoming part of the family.
It helped that his youngest daughter told him she decided she wanted to go to college in Nashville.
This might be the perfect opportunity to move back with her.'”
He played multiple shows in each city and sometimes did two shows in a single night.
I’ve never felt more welcome."
Talk about a transformation.
