{"id":66030,"date":"2019-07-06T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=66030"},"modified":"2019-07-05T12:34:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T16:34:01","slug":"how-garth-brooks-asked-blake-shelton-to-duet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/07\/how-garth-brooks-asked-blake-shelton-to-duet\/","title":{"rendered":"How Garth Brooks Asked Blake Shelton To Duet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_lVe5NKUNw4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Garth Brooks knew he wanted to collaborate with Blake Shelton after watching him perform on an award show earlier this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI was watching the ACMs this year, and there was something in Blake\u2019s face, man. When he was singing \u2018God\u2019s Country,\u2019 I looked at his face and said, \u2018This guy is believing every word and it\u2019s got him.\u2019 When a song gets a singer, when it grabs a singer, you can see it in their face. And this guy wasn\u2019t just performing \u2013 he was living and breathing it. So I called him up right after \u2013 I said, \u2018Hey, man.\u2019 I said, \u2018I don\u2019t know if you\u2019d ever think of somethin\u2019 this crazy, but I\u2019ve got this song called \u2018Dive Bar\u2019.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Garth and Blake will team up to perform the song live and shoot a video for it during Garth&#8217;s Stadium Tour stop in Boise, ID on July 19th.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/By1Jt-Ogo20\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garth Brooks knew he wanted to collaborate with Blake Shelton after watching him perform on an award show earlier this year.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":66046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[484,1272,475,1273],"class_list":["post-66030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-blake-shelton","tag-dive-bar","tag-garth-brooks","tag-gods-country"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 21:23:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/07\/how-garth-brooks-asked-blake-shelton-to-duet\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66030","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=66030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66031,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66030\/revisions\/66031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}