![]() Seger “has influenced my music so much," Brooks said, before playing the highly Seger-influenced “That Summer,” a tune about a teenaged boy, an older woman and, well, nature. ![]() Before being reincarnated as Chicago’s top country bar about a decade back, it was a sort of faux-beach club joint called Banana Joe’s, and the room’s details are still more warehouse than woodcraft.īut it is also a venue where the furthest patron is maybe 50 feet away from the stage, plenty close enough to see the Bob Seger tee-shirt Brooks was wearing and all the times he and the audience pointed back at each other: You! No, you! In reality, Joe’s is no Dive Bar except, perhaps, by current Garth Brooks stadium mega-concert standards. But there were a couple of deeper cuts prompted by requests he took from the audience, including the 1994 single “The Red Strokes,” which Brooks said was "gonna suck,” even as the verse and chorus he summoned up didn’t. Most of the setlist would be the Garth Brooks Spotify top tracks, if Brooks weren’t one of the holdouts from the streaming music service. ![]() (Rob Grabowski / Rob Grabowski/Invision/AP) The marquee for Garth Brooks at Joe's on Weed in Chicago, Monday, July 15, 2019, on the first stop of his Dive Bar tour.
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