Last night I watched the best thing I've seen on CBS since Walter Cronkite used to do the news.

It was a Garth Brooks Special filmed (live?) at a Steve Wynn Casino in Vegas. He spent most of the show paying homage to his influences, both personal and musical. It Was Great. Even with the Chris Gaines cameo during a Walmart ad.

He ended the show with a (second) encore of my favorite Garth Brooks song, "I've Got Friends In Low Places."
The perfect icing on the perfect cake.

Today, I accidentally tuned-in to the studio version of this song on a local Public Radio Station:


Prior to that, above, there was the studio version of this, below, (on another local NPR program).
I liked it too. It made me feel good. Not that the song is "happy happy happy" . . .
rather, because no matter how sad the lyrics, good roots music is still out there.


(Note: The studio version added pedal steel and cut the intro and the coughing.)

This may help explain why I like John "The Flash in the Pan" Fullbright's musical poetry so much. =)

Metacognition: There needs to be more of it. At least I think so.

As excellent a repository of "Good Tunes Worth Listening To" Feel Good Music 1 may be, it was getting huge and difficult to load.
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