more photosLabel executive Jim Foglesong, producer/songwriter Allen Reynolds and artist Garth Brooks were honored with the Leadership Music Dale Franklin Award during an all-star musical tribute August 23rd in Nashville, TN. Among those honoring them was Trisha Yearwood.
During her turn at the microphone, Yearwood said, “This is the best party I’ve ever been to,” noting that so many of the most important people in her own career were on hand to salute Brooks. She recalled first meeting him at a demo session, where she was paid $10 and he wasn’t paid at all. They hit it off, she said, but she couldn’t have imagined what was about to happen. “I had no idea that he would become Garth Brooks,” she said. She summed up his character by mentioning his “good sense of humor, great love of music, and one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet. He’s way nicer than me!” She dryly recounted when she landed an opening spot on Brooks’ tour. He invited her to use the whole stage. She didn’t know what else to do but stand there. But when she delivered a knockout rendition of Bob Dylan’s “To Make You Feel My Love” (also a No. 1 hit for Brooks), her husband stood up at his table and she looked right into his eyes as she sang it.
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