Go inside the electric world of Garth Brooks LIVE. From the first on-stage appearance in college to headlining his own record breaking tours and worldwide stardom. Includes behind the scene stories, insider secrets, interviews with band and crew. Five CDs with 52 Live Recordings including Triple Live, the soundtrack of the record breaking world tour. 100 behind-the-scenes and performance photos. 10 augmented reality experiences that come to life through the Garth Live app. The Anthology Part III, Live is part three of Garth's massive five part anthology. Part III is an exciting, detailed, insider look at the electrifying concerts of Garth Brooks. From just being a bar bouncer to playing with only a few people watching at Willie's Saloon in Stillwater OK, to being an opening act for Reba, The Judds and Kenny Rogers to finally headlining his own tours which garnered him 6 CMA Entertainer of the Year awards. You get to watch the audience grow larger and larger with each show, from the multi-sold-out stadium shows around the world, to the historic night in Central Park where over a million people gathered to witness the entertainer of a lifetime! You are part of Garth's entourage for the whole thing. The 5 CDs contain 52 live recordings, including the new live album, Triple Live. It's the soundtrack of the record breaking, number one tour in North American history. Includes over 100 amazing behind-the-scenes and performance photos and over 10 augmented reality experiences. Download the Garth Live app and hold it over the cover and various photos inside the Anthology to watch Garth's Live story come to life.

TEN WEEKS ON THE EXTENDED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST A BOOK AS BIG AND BOLD AS THE AMAZING ENTERTAINER IT CELEBRATES -- THE ONE AND ONLY GARTH BROOKS! AMERICAN THUNDER has taken America by storm, earning the praise of songwriters, industry insiders, and, most important, Garth Brook's own fans. Here's the story of an ordinary guy from Oklahoma who hoped to become an athlete until he discovered his own unique ability to harness the power of music and reach into people's hearts and souls. From his early days in clubs and honky-tonks playing pop, rock, and folk music to his domination of the country music scene in the 1990s through his artistic experiment as rock icon Chris Gaines, this biography takes you backstage, into recording studios, and all around the world with the biggest-selling solo artist of all time.

This collection contains 15 hit songs, five each from his three albums -- Garth Brooks, No Fences and Ropin' the Wind. This folio includes all the released singles like: The Dance * Friends in Low Places * Papa Loved Mama * The River * Rodeo * Shameless * The Thunder Rolls * Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House.

Chris Smith tells the fascinating stories behind the most groundbreaking, influential, and often controversial albums ever recorded.

Full-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton, k.d. lang to Taylor Swift—these artists provided pivot points, truths, and doses of courage for women writers at every stage of their lives. Whether it’s Rosanne Cash eulogizing June Carter Cash or a seventeen-year-old Taylor Swift considering the golden glimmer of another precocious superstar, Brenda Lee, it’s the humanity beneath the music that resonates. Here are deeply personal essays from award-winning writers on femme fatales, feminists, groundbreakers, and truth tellers. Acclaimed historian Holly George Warren captures the spark of the rockabilly sensation Wanda Jackson; Entertainment Weekly’s Madison Vain considers Loretta Lynn’s girl-power anthem “The Pill”; and rocker Grace Potter embraces Linda Ronstadt’s unabashed visual and musical influence. Patty Griffin acts like a balm on a post-9/11 survivor on the run; Emmylou Harris offers a gateway through paralyzing grief; and Lucinda Williams proves that greatness is where you find it. Part history, part confessional, and part celebration of country, Americana, and bluegrass and the women who make them, Woman Walk the Line is a very personal collection of essays from some of America’s most intriguing women writers. It speaks to the ways in which artists mark our lives at different ages and in various states of grace and imperfection—and ultimately how music transforms not just the person making it, but also the listener.

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Discover the "important and inspiring" and never-before-told complete story of the remarkable relationship between country music icons Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn (Miranda Lambert). Loretta Lynn and the late Patsy Cline are legends—country icons and sisters of the heart. For the first time ever Loretta tells their story: a celebration of their music and their relationship up until Patsy's tragic and untimely death. Full of laughter and tears, this eye-opening, heartwarming memoir paints a picture of two stubborn, spirited country gals who'd be damned if they'd let men or convention tell them how to be. Set in the heady streets of the 1960s South, this nostalgia ride shows how Nashville blossomed into the city of music it is today. Tender and fierce, Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust is an up-close-and-personal portrait of a friendship that defined a generation and changed country music indelibly—and a meditation on love, loss and legacy.