How 'bout a round of applause?… Standin’ ovation… Nope, Garth Brooks prefers to take a bow, and his fellow Country music singing wife Trisha Yearwood always returns the gesture.
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If you've seen Garth and Trisha together in concert, then you know what we’re talking about. If not, let us fill you in, as the two have a sweet tradition of bowing to each other during performances.
And now, in the latest episode of Brooks' weekly Facebook Live show, Inside Studio G, he revealed just how the tradition got started, and also paid his wifey the sweetest of compliments that almost made us cry (keyword: almost).
"When we first started singing together, she told me I had to. After every song, I had to bow to her," he said, joking, "Then she probably started feeling guilty I was bowing, so she'd bow back." All jokes aside, Brooks went on to admit that the tradition is simply out of shared respect and "of her gift, of her talent, and the fact that she's done it on her own, as a woman in this business.”
Garth then went on to note, “long before I ever thought it was possible to date the woman, much less marry her, I'm the biggest fan of Trisha Yearwood's voice you can imagine," he continued. "One of the greatest crimes in Country music history right now: Trisha Yearwood is not in the Country Music Hall of Fame yet. That is a crime because I cannot tell you how many people have moved to this town because this woman's voice drove them here. This is the greatest singer we have in Country music, arguably, and so I'm a huge, huge fan.”
Having known each other for years before as Brooks put it, he ever thought it possible to be with, let alone married to Yearwood. We’re talking extremely early on in both of their careers, before Brooks found fame with his 1989 debut album and Yearwood did so with her first record in 1991. The two recorded a demo together, and as Brooks recollected, he promised Yearwood that if he was successful, she could open for him.
Well, not only did Garth make it, but he followed through on his promise for Yearwood to open for him. And not only that, in 1997, they added some more duets to their catalog, ”In Another's Eyes," which was featured on Garth’s studio album Sevens, and "Wild as the Wind,” from his 1998 Double Live record.
Brooks and Yearwood who were both previously married, started dating after ending their marriages to their previous spouses. After Brooks divorced his wife Sandy in 2001 and Trisha divorced Mavericks member Robert Reynolds (her second husband) in 1999, the couple wed in December 2005, and have been bowing to each other in Country singing wedded bliss ever since.
Watch the country crooner get all sweet on his honey below.
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