Part two is due in Nov
Garth Brooks is continuing his anthology book/CD series this fall with the release of The Anthology 2: The Next Five Years. Brooks unveiled details on his Facebook Live series, Inside Studio G, today (Mon, June 27th), stating he’s hoping it’ll be in stores this November.
“We got the green light. We’re ready. This thing is almost 300 pages with almost 280 something photographs in it, which is crazy,” Brooks says.
The set will take fans inside his career from 1996 through his retirement in 2000. He says it’s his favorite so far, and is a “pretty frickin’ personal book.”
The set will contain six CDs featuring previously unreleased tracks with the book containing interviews by Bob Dylan and Keith Urban, among others.
“It’s like a music box with killer liner notes, pretty much is what the Anthology is.”
Among the unreleased tracks is a duet version he and wife Trisha Yearwood recorded of Bob Dylan’s “To Make You Feel My Love.”
“Miss [Trisha] Yearwood started this conversation with us about a duet that we had cut on Bob Dylan’s ‘To Make You Feel My Love’ for Hope Floats,” he adds. “She sang the ‘walking home in the rain’ line — I did the title track for it. And then she claims there was a duet done with just strings and a guitar.
“And I didn’t want to tell my wife she was drinking but…” he jokes as he mimes drinking. “And we dug in the vault, and sure enough there it was. This thing is gorgeous. It’s beautiful, so it’s in the Anthology as well.”
Yearwood will also provide the back cover introduction as she has previously done on The Anthology: Part 1, The First Five Years and The Anthology Part III: Live.
Further details are expected to be announced soon, but Brooks confirms fans will be able to purchase the set, including a limited edition cover, through TalkShopLive before being distributed to retail.
Brooks is winding down his three-year Stadium Tour. Last week, Houston was announced as the last North American date with more than 60,000 tickets sold and they are still selling. Since it began in March 2019, The Stadium Tour has averaged over 94,000 tickets per city, breaking a new record as the country star’s highest attended tour thus far.
The Stadium Tour concludes with five sold out shows in Dublin, Ireland this September. Four hundred thousand tickets sold out within four hours, marking a new milestone for the country star who hasn’t performed in the city in 25 years. Two thousand additional tickets were put on sale earlier this month after productions holds were lifted for all five nights.
Brooks will open his Friends in Low Place Honky Tonk and Bar soon. No specific date on when the three-story, 40,000+ square foot property will officially open for entertainment. Brooks recently launched socials, a website and merch for the venue located in Nashville’s Lower Broadway honky tonk district.
