Garth Coast to Coast

The night after Garth Brooks releases his new album Scarecrow -- which hits stores November 13th -- CBS will air the first of three Garth Brooks TV specials.

Garth Brooks: Coast to Coast Live will be shown on three consecutive Wednesday nights, with the broadcast beginning in the midst of a live concert from each location. The November 14th show will air live from the Forum in Los Angeles. On November 21st Brooks will perform from the USS Enterprise, the aircraft carrier returning to Norfolk, Va., with servicemen and women who had been stationed in the Middle East. The site for the November 28th show, however, is undisclosed, as are the special guests for all three shows. Brooks is expected to perform songs from his new album as well as past hits.

In between the CBS dates Brooks will also play the Wyo Theater in Sheridan, Wyoming on December 8th and the BellSouth Acuff Theater, in Nashville on the 9th.

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Song Stories

“1999”

Prince | 1982

“I don’t consider myself a great poet,” Prince told Rolling Stone. “I just know I’m here to say what’s on my mind.” In the case of the apocalyptic party anthem “1999,” he was worried about then-president Ronald Reagan’s foreign policies. The song’s melody is based on a riff borrowed from the Mamas and Papas’ “Monday, Monday,” and Prince originally envisioned the first verse with three-part harmony but later split the vocals between himself and members of the Revolution. Because Warner Bros., with whom Prince was locked in a contractual battle, owned the original’s masters, Prince rerecorded the song and appropriately released that version in 1999.

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