“Friends in Low Places” is Garth Brooks’ signature song, but it almost wasn’t his song at all.<\/p>\n
Garth recorded a demo for the song, but George Strait was supposed to release it.<\/p>\n
“The reason they asked me to do the demo was because I wanted to be George Strait for years, so I do a pretty good impersonation of him.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
But apparently, George didn’t want it, so Garth recorded it for his 1990 album “No Fences”, and the rest is history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Friends in Low Places” is Garth Brooks’ signature song, but it almost wasn’t his song at all.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":89578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[7257,475,1404,10481],"class_list":["post-102075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-friends-in-low-places","tag-garth-brooks","tag-george-strait","tag-no-fences"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 22:24:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/01\/friends-in-low-places-could-have-been-george-straits-song\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}