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2016 Musicians Hall of Fame Inductees Announced

Garth Brooks and his band the G-men are among the 2016 inductees into the Musicians Hall of Fame. The class of 2016 also includes Ricky Skaggs, the late Jerry Reed and members of the Sigma Sound Studio Rhythm Section, a group of soul musicians who were a part of the “Philadelphia sound” of the 1970s. The honorees will formally be inducted on October 26 during a ceremony at Nashville’s Municipal Auditorium.

 

·       Tickets for the event will go on sale on September 12 through Ticketmaster.

August 31st: On This Day

On this day in 1993, Liberty released Garth Brooks’ fifth studio album In Pieces. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 and Top Country Albums chart.

In Pieces produced two number one singles with “Ain’t Going Down (‘Til the Sun Comes Up)” and “American Honky-Tonk Bar Association”.

The album, to date, has been Certified 8x Platinum by the RIAA.

 

July 5th: On This Day

On this day in 1991, Garth Brooks celebrated another Multi-Platinum selling album with his sophomore release No Fences.  The album was a cross-genre hit,  reaching #1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart and reaching #3 on the Billboard 200.

No Fences produced four #1 hits with “Friends in Low Places”, “Unanswered Prayers”, “Two of a Kind, Workin’ on a Full House”, and the “The Thunder Rolls”. The album was named Album of the Year by the ACM in 1990.

The album has since been Certified 17x Platinum.

June 23rd: On This Day

On this day in 1995, Garth Brooks’ The Hits was Certified 6X Platinum for shipments of 6 million copies. The album debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, and Top Country Albums, making it a crossover success.

This was technically Garth’s second best of album,as The Garth Brooks Collection, was released three months earlier exclusively at McDonald’s  to raise money for the Ronald McDonald Children’s Charities.

The album is now out of print, as it was a limited time offer. The Hits well over ten million copies before production on the album stopped.

 

May 10th: On This Day

On this day in 1995, Garth Brooks was presented with the Jim Reeves Award by the ACM for “Bringing Country Music to a worldwide audience.” Garth was entering 1995 after his album Pieces went number on the Billboard 200 and Top Country Album Charts. He also had finished up his Garth Brooks World Tour in October the previous year, which spanned 10 countries in less than two years time.

April 7th: On This Day

On this day in 1991, Garth Brooks had the #1 song in the country with “Two Of A Kind, Workin’ On A Full House.” The song was the third single off of No Fences and was also his fifth consecutive number one hit.

Garth provided background information on the song in the CD booklet liner notes from The Hits:

This song came to me through Jon Northrup. He was doing a demo deal, and “Two of a Kind” was one of the four songs he was pitching for a demo. When I heard it, I said, “I wish you all the luck on your deal, but if for some reason it falls through, I’d love to have this. He called me three months later and told me I could have it if I wanted it. I immediately cut it. And to this day, even though it’s a small, light-hearted song, it’s one of the strongest parts of our live show. People just seem to connect with this song. This is a big point to writers and artists out there, especially myself, that sometimes intense gets the point across, but don’t forget to show ’em your sense of humor.

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