Channel could feature a second station
Garth Brooks is working on relaunching The Garth Channel. The country superstar hasn’t shared specifics, but tells Country Countdown USA host Lon Helton it could come with a sister channel.
“The Garth Channel came to an end, so now we’re getting ready to launch Garth Channel 2.0,” he says. “The Friends bar on Broadway may also have its own channel. What I love is technology will open the door where the new chapter will be like nothing we’ve ever done before. So I look forward to the future.”
The Garth Channel ran on SiriusXM from 2016-2022 to coincide with his record-breaking 390 date comeback arena tour that spanned 2014-2017 and The Stadium Tour from 2019-2022. Completely curated by Brooks himself, The Garth Channel featured Garth’s picks from yesterday and today’s pop, country, R&B and rock artists mixed with his own award-winning songs.
The channel ended on September 30th after six years following five sold out shows that wrapped The Stadium Tour in Dublin, Ireland.
“It’s Ireland, it has nothing to do with Garth Brooks,” the Oklahoma native tells Helton. “If you play music. get yourself to Ireland. It’ll change your life. 80,000 a night for five nights, and they do not sleep. It is an entertainer’s dream to get to play for those people.”
The country superstar is prepping to release The Anthology, Part II: The Next Five Years on November 15th. Brooks picks up where he left off in The Anthology, Part I: The First Five Years in 2017, telling his story in his own words and offering fascinating insights to his career and personal life from 1996-2001. Completing the Anthology, Part II is a six disc set of musical highlights from albums released during that time — all of which will be heard in a new way after reading about the inspiration for the song and how the magic was created in the studio — plus two previously unreleased recordings — a studio recording of “Tearin’ It Up (And Burnin’ It Down)” and a duet version of “To Make You Feel My Love” with wife Trisha Yearwood.
Brooks is also expected to open his forthcoming Friends In Low Places entertainment complex at 411 Broadway in Nashville later this year. The country star is fitting the bill for a Nashville Metro police substation in the adjacent alley to the downtown complex.
