Sure, plenty about country music 30 years ago was corny, stylized, overly flashy. A 2015 Saturday Night Live sketch cast host Blake Shelton opposite Aidy Bryant’s Wynonna Judd and Kate McKinnon’s Reba McEntire in a music video for a preposterous folksy tale titled “Wishin’ Boot.” And later that year Dierks Bentley and his touring band took on the alter ego Hot Country Knights, an affectionate parody of ’90s excesses, along with mustaches, mullets, and acid-washed jeans. In 2012, Jason Aldean released “1994,” a single that had him chanting the name of honky-tonker Joe Diffie like a wannabe hip-hop hype man. “But if we all pick that light up, maybe that light can grow instead of disappear.A decade ago, country music of the ’90s was treated like a novelty from a bygone era.

“A light has gone out that shines on how we should treat each other,” he said.

What she says is very quiet but yet very powerful … She taught us all that the lion doesn’t have to roar.”īrooks became emotional while discussing Rosalynn’s death. “If you ever got to hang around her, President Carter always steals the show, and then when it comes time for her to speak, she’ll walk to the mic.

“Miss Yearwood called a ‘quiet warrior,'” Brooks said, “ Today” reports. He revealed that Yearwood and Rosalynn were inseparable, and that the former president referred to Yearwood as “his second-favorite Georgia peach.” 19, Brooks held a press conference at his Friends In Low Places Bar & Grill in Nashville, where he reflected on that friendship. MORE: Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter honored with lifetime achievement awardsĬountry music’s royal couple became friends with the Carters when they worked with them during Habitat for Humanity’s annual Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Week Project. WSB-TV captured the moment and shared it on YouTube: Former President Jimmy Carter was there to see his friends pay tribute to his wife he attended the service in a rare public appearance since entering hospice 10 months ago. The funeral was held at Atlanta’s Emory University at Glenn Memorial Church. Yearwood sang the lyrics to John Lennon’s “Imagine,” while Brooks accompanied her on guitar. So it was only fitting that, after the recent passing of Rosalynn Carter at the age of 96, Brooks and Yearwood would provide some of the music at her tribute service on Nov. One of country music’s most famous couples, Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, were close friends with one of our country’s most famous couples, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter.

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