OKAY, BUT WHERE'S CHRIS GAINES? Former San Diego Padres spring training invitee Garth Brooks -- okay, also the biggest-selling solo musical artist in American history, having displaced Elvis Presley -- is coming out of retirement to set up residence at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas. Brooks last released an album in 2001.
Coincidentally, just last week the AV Club's Nathan Rabin penned an appreciation: "In a genre filled with towering, larger-than-life hellcats like George Jones, Johnny Cash, and Hank Williams, Brooks was (and is) defiantly life-sized. He’s the superstar next door, the first country icon to look and act like a middle manager at a sporting-goods company..."
Coincidentally, just last week the AV Club's Nathan Rabin penned an appreciation: "In a genre filled with towering, larger-than-life hellcats like George Jones, Johnny Cash, and Hank Williams, Brooks was (and is) defiantly life-sized. He’s the superstar next door, the first country icon to look and act like a middle manager at a sporting-goods company..."
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