Watched "Garth Brooks: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize" broadcast on my local PBS station last night. I recorded it,and it will be enjoyed multiple times before it gets deleted.
2 hours of VERY enjoyable entertainment. He doesn't just do his own songs,he covers people like Bob Seeger,Bob
Pretty much everyone in DC with any influence showed up,including Pelosi and several senators and congresscritters.
I found it interesting when at one point he talked about how great America is,and pretty much everybody stood up and applauded,with the obvious exception of Pelosi and those with her.
You have to hear Chris Stapleton's opening with a cover of "The Thing they call Rodeo" that kicked the show off that was so good at the end of the night when Garth thanked everyone,he thanked Stapleton for "showing me how the song should have been done". That's some SERIOUSLY high praise!
Lots of other singers do covers of his songs too,and all of them do great jobs,but Stapleton's opening sat an impossibly high bar to pass.
This is PBS,so it's going to air over and over for months,so do a web search of your local PBS station to see when they air it,and then record it. You owe it to yourself.
