Garth Brooks Gets Emotional About Christmas
Garth Brooks appeared on The Jimmy Kimmel Show this week and talked about the Thanksgiving holiday, his new book Anthology, Part IV, which includes six CDs, and Christmas time. Garth even got emotional talking about his daughters putting ornaments on the Christmas tree.
Brooks said of Thanksgiving and his wife Trisha Yearwood’s cooking, “She does what we call a misfit Thanksgiving. Because we have a lot of people that are in for the industry only and their families are somewhere else. So she opens up her doors, and we have 20 to 25 people this Thanksgiving.”
He added, “She’s a fantastic cook, and she does the whole thing herself. I can clean up that’s about all I can do; I don’t wanna get in the way of perfection because this woman’s got it going.”
Kimmel asked Garth when does the Christmas tree go up? The country icon answered, “Well, it usually goes up the day after (Thanksgiving). But we’re still doing our gig in Vegas, so we’re there the first three weekends of December. So we’re all the way up to about three days before Christmas Eve. So, Miss Yearwood said we’re starting Christmas now, and that was about three weeks ago. She dragged the Christmas tree out of the basement. It’s already up.”
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Brooks said the Christmas tree and lights will come down on February 7, which is his birthday, and then Garth said, “I don’t know about you, but I can’t have enough Christmas in my life.”
He continued, “I can’t have enough Christmas. Ornaments are cool, but they have to have a meaning to them. We always decorate with the three girls, right? Garth started to get teary-eyed when talking about his daughters, who are now grown. He said, “We’ve done that since we’ve known each other, so the three girls have three bells. And that’s the first thing that has to go on the tree. I’m gonna start crying. Sorry. That’s the first thing that goes on the tree, and that means Christmas, and that means it’s time to love one another. Drop all the silly s— and have some fun together.”
Brooks also shared stories – and music – from inside the pages of Anthology, Part IV. He recounted the first time he and his daughters hosted Trisha for a dinner at their Oklahoma home well before he and Trisha tied the knot. He talked about working with Huey Lewis, a friend of Kimmel’s. He performed for an outdoor audience to a full-band performance, highlighted by “Fishin’ In the Dark” – one of the many songs from the era of time chronicled in Anthology, Part IV.
