Garth Brooks Announces ‘Dive Bar’ Tour

Yesterday (7/7) marked National “Dive Bar” Day and Garth Brooks marked with a big Facebook post: “We’re announcing the ‘Dive Bar’ Tour!” Garth plans to play seven cities on his…

Nancy Brooks // Country Writer, Beasley Media Group

Updated Jul 8, 2019 9:21 AM EDT

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Yesterday (7/7) marked National “Dive Bar” Day and Garth Brooks marked with a big Facebook post: “We’re announcing the ‘Dive Bar’ Tour!”

Garth plans to play seven cities on his summer “Dive Bar” Tour which gets its name and inspiration from his new duet with Blake Shelton.

In between “Dive Bar” stops with his band, Brooks will still be playing on his Stadium Tour and Blake is slated to join him at the first of his two concerts in Boise (on July 19).

Garth said that Chicago will be the first city on the Dive Bar Tour, on July 15. He said, "We can’t say the name of the place yet. Radio’s going to announce tomorrow (today) around 5:00pm the actual bar in Chicago that we will be playing. Everything’s about your local country radio station, man. That’s what it’s all about. You can still only hear ‘Dive Bar’ on your local country radio station. And that’s how it should be!”

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Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.