Garth Brooks To Return To Arenas On New ‘Blame It All On My Roots Tour’
Garth Brooks. Photo: Blue Rose, Inc
Garth Brooks has revealed he’s returning to arenas on the new “Blame It All On My Roots Tour” beginning Aug. 21-22.
The announcement comes 30 years after Brooks launched what would become the largest concert tour on the planet. The album captured from those nights became Double Live, the biggest-selling live album in history, now certified 25 million by the RIAA. That same groundbreaking tour delivered back-to-back CMA Entertainer of the Year Awards and two Artist of the Decade honors for the superstar, and 30 years later, he’s returning to those giant stages.
The tour kicks off with back-to-back nights in Indianapolis at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Aug. 21-22. General on-sale begins July 17 here. The show features both end-stage and in-the-round seating, and there are no pre-sales or advance box office sales, with all tickets going on sale simultaneously. There is an eight-ticket limit per purchase.
“Going back into the arenas is about putting the stadium show in a box,” says Brooks. “The excitement gets multiplied by the intimacy. Every seat is a great seat. This is personal.”
The “Blame It All On My Roots Tour” will also serve as the foundation for Killer Live, a new approach to live recording that continues Brooks’s tradition of capturing history in real time. He will bring every hit he has ever made back to the rooms where it all started with the new live project.
Brooks is the biggest selling artist in U.S. history as the first and only artist to pass 200M albums sold. He is also the first and only artist to receive ten RIAA Diamond Awards for 10 albums certified at over 10 million. According to the RIAA, Double Live is the biggest-selling live album and the top-selling country album in the U.S. Double Live, No Fences, Ropin’ the Wind, and Triple Live are four of the top five best-selling country albums of all time. Brooks has charted 20 Billboard No. 1 singles, and was the first artist to garner top-5 singles at country radio in five consecutive decades – the ‘80s, ‘90s, ‘00s, ‘10s, and ‘20s.
