“The closer you look, and the more you find out,” he’d said at the time, “you realize Chris Gaines is Garth Brooks. We hope these alter ego quiz questions and answers can help you. Will the country icon restart his failed rock star experiment from 1999 Written by Chris Parton October 14, 2020.
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And while Brooks’ country fans didn’t take to Gaines the way you might think zealous loyalists would, he eventually admitted that he and Gaines weren’t all that different. In the famous novel Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Hyde and Jekyll refer to a single person with opposite identities. Garth Brooks Hints at Return of Alter Ego, Chris Gaines. In 1999 the album Garth Brooks in The Life of Chris Gaines was released in an attempt to generate enthusiasm for a potential movie about Brooks’s fictional alter ego, Chris Gaines. It was written by Gordon Kennedy, Wayne Kirkpatrick, and Tommy Sims. “Lost in You” was the first single Gaines released.
In 1999, Brooks released an album by his alter ego, Australian alt-rock singer Chris Gaines. And because this cover of “Lost in You” on Like A Version - a cover-song segment on Australian radio station triple j - wasn’t a straight-up country song, it feels like a natural fit.Ī brief history lesson on why this song wasn’t really a country one: Childish Gambino may be known more for his rap and R&B, but somehow, this just works. He not just covered it, he owned it.īrooks is so right. It seemed that first love for rock music never faded, either, as eventually, an alter-ego named Chris Gaines manifested itself from the mind of Brooks. “It’s neat to see somebody that is so friggin’ cool, and to hear him sing that with that kind of passion and love was very, very sweet. Fans just couldnt understand the concept, and although the music was great, critics panned the album. The album was called Garth Brooks.in the Life of Chris Gaines. When this video from actor-producer-writer Glover’s alter ego Childish Gambino made its way to Garth Brooks and his own alter ego Chris Gaines, Brooks had this to say during Monday night’s (Aug. Alter Ego or No In 1999, Garth confused many fans by releasing an album of pop hits that were from a fictional character which was to be part of an upcoming movie project.