GARTH TAKING ON MUSIC INDUSTRY: ‘TIME TO PULL OUT THE SWORD AND GO TO WAR’
October 24, 2009 - 11:18 am
Garth Brooks, at age 47, is re-entering the public arena with his announcement to leave retirement to play select concerts. He also seems eager to begin speaking his mind again. When he began his self-imposed retirement in 2001 -- announced a year earlier -- to care for his three daughters as a newly-divorced father, Brooks totally withdrew from the music scene, apart from playing occasional charity shows, and he has remained totally silent on current issues in the music industry.