Garth Brooks is a big, big fan of Blake Shelton, and not just for his music. The 58-year-old sang with Shelton on “Dive Bar,” from his recent Fun album, and became a big fan of who he is, and not just on stage.
“He is the least ‘celebrity’ guy you’ll ever meet,” Brooks told American Songwriter. “If you can’t find him, it’s because his phone is on silent and he’s duck hunting or he’s in a blind or he’s out fishing. He’s just the most regular guy on the planet. It was fun to get to hang out with another artist who wasn’t worried about what was coming out of his mouth.”
Brooks previously praised Shelton and his upcoming marriage to Gwen Stefani .
“I’ve always described Blake as my second-favorite female singer,” Brooks quipped to Access Hollywood. “I love Blake. You’re with Blake for 20 seconds, and you know all about him. Blake’s one of those guys that’s got no secrets. He’s not going to change on you. He’s going to be the same, which is a blessing. So I think she’s extremely lucky. I love that man. I really do, and I would love to get a chance to know her, because good people hang with good people, and he’s solid.”
Brooks hopes that his latest record, and his future projects, will do what he has always wanted his music to do: bring unity instead of division.
“What I love about music most is that it’s forever there,” Brooks says. “It can be 3:00 AM. when no one else wants to talk to you and music will speak to you. Or it will listen. Or it will play along with you. We used to have a T-shirt and on the back of it said something like, ‘I’ve watched music make enemies dance together. I’ve watched music make people who couldn’t speak the same language communicate with each other. And I’ve watched it make friends of foes.’”
I can’t help but wonder if music is truly the voice of hope,” Brooks says. “It’s certainly a monster of a weapon for us to use to bring people together.”
1st GOT TO SAY CONGRADS ON UR ENGAGEMENT TO 💝💍@GWEN STEFANI (SHE HAS BECAME COU TRY YAY👏🏻♥️👏🏻♥️👏🏻♥️⭐️🔥, & HAS PUT THAT SPARKLE BACK N UR EYES @BLAKE SHELTON ((I’M SOOOO HAPPY U HAVE FOUND I HOPE IS UR EVER LASTING LOVE🤞🏻♥️💝💙))! NOW WE GOT TO C HER HUNTING,🦌,FISHING🎣 4ANYTHING THAT BITES BABY DOLL U GO GRL (USING THAT GRL POWER U HAVE WILL B AWSOME ALONG W/@BLAKE SHELTON ⭐️🔥U 2 TOGETHER WILL ACCOMPLISH SO MUCH N UR LIVES HAPPY FOR U BOTH WLD HAVE LOVED TO GOT TO GO WATCH THIS WEDDING OMG♥️🤞🏻💍💝💙🤞🏻🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏!!!!
👉🏻👉🏻👉🏻“””I’M JUST A ((OLD COPS WIFE OF 41yrs & SUM DAYS I DO NOT GET ROUND GOOD”””💔, 2-BAD BACK SURG, & TODATE 17-times my L-Foot has had SURG OF DIFF. TYPES💔😭BEEN RUFF SINCE MY MID 20’s!!! SENDING MUCH LOVE TO U BOTH♥️🥰!!!
I MUST AGREE @blakeshelton GOT TO MEET HIM N JAX. FLA. & HE ACTUALLY CAME ROUND THE STAGE & SHOOK (EVERYONE’S HAND) & I MEAN ““HE HAS A GRIP””!!!!!♥️ MADE ME FEEL I WAS SUMONE (EVEN THO I’M NOT)!
I DID HAVE A FAM. MEMBER THAT DID GO TO HIS POND & DID SUM TYPE OF WRK ON IT FOR (⭐️🔥BLAKE SHELTON)👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻♥️! WLD HAVE LOVED TO BEEN THERE @ THAT POND FISHING OMG!!!!!!💔
AND TO U @garthbrooks I ALSO THINK U R A SIMPLE MAN THAT LIVES LIFE JUST AS WE ALL DO!! I THINK U R A HELL OF A MAN FOR DOING WHAT U DID FOR UR FAM. MOST MEN WLD (((NEVER THINK TWICE BOUT LEAVING A ⭐️🔥CAREE FOR ALL THOSE YRS FOR THIER FAM.))) & I WILL ALWAYS SAY U EARNED THE UP MOST RESPECT FOR THAT WORLD WIDE N MY BOOK, WISHED WE CLD HAVE HAD A DAD THAT CARED “”INSTEAD HE BEAT US DAILY LIKE HE DID OUR MOM UNTILL SHE GOT AWAY & ((((“””HAD TO LEAVE 2LIL BABY BOYS N DIAPERS,I WAS ???MAYB 4ish???))))!! BUT HE NEVER LET HER C US OR HAVE US •••3 EVER AGAIN•••!
I BECAME THE MOM @ 9 (SO I GUESS HE KEPT US TO BEAT SINCE SHE HAD GOT AWAY💔😭 SAD TO REALIZE THIS WHEN U R A TEEN RITE)?????!!!!!!!
BUT I GOT TO SAY I LOVE U BLAKE SHELTON ((U JUST SEEM TO B A MAN OF UR WRD & REAL ALL N ONE MAKE THE WORLD LOVE U JUST AS MUCH))♥️♥️♥️♥️!!!!!!
MY FAM ALSO DOES ESP THESE 4-GRANDSON’S OF MINE, *•••THIS 11yr old OMG (((OLE RED))) U NO HE THINKS HE IS A BIG HUNTER,FISHERMAN,ECT SO THAT SONG HE GOES CRAZY BOUT BLAKE SHELTON•••*👏🏻♥️👏🏻♥️!!!!!
WE ALSO LOVE U GARTH BROOKS HAD LOVED UR MUSIC & ESP WHEN “”U DONE UR BIO THAT TOOK THE CAKE//// & PUT THAT CANE SYRUP RITE ON TOP OF THAT BUTTERMILK BISCUIT♥️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻!!!!!!!
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Love both these guys Garth has been at opry house before and he will sign all autographs he is a great guy he is so emotional I love that in a man he reminds me of my dad he cried about everything happy or sad and Blake is a good ole country boy just like the guys I grew up with.
Blake is and will always be a great kounty singer, I absolutely love his music, and his latest song minimum wage. I love love it and the ones that don’t can kiss my A__,
Garth will always and 4ever be a kountry idol.
Two of the best in country music ever. There will never be another another two country boys like Garth and Blake. It will be hard to live up to their popularity over so many years . And now that Blake and Gwen will marry makes it perfect like Garth and Tricia. I always said if Blake and Gwen don’t make it I would lose my faith in relationships and could n it be happier that Garth returned to the music scene.