4:40Garth Brooks enhanced his stature as the sweetest cowboy since Roy Rogers with a round of media interviews ahead of his 11-shows-in-10-days stand at Target Center.
Brooks just adores his Dale Evans, otherwise known as the country star-in-her-own-right Trisha Yearwood and the person Garth calls "my best friend."
In cattle-call-like media interviews, Brooks' handlers moved a lot of media in and out of there after a news conference that began with Mayor Betsy Hodges reading a proclamation she personally wrote for Brooks and Yearwood. That's not the norm, but Hodges is a huge fan who raised the bar pretty high for future city proclamations, Yearwood said.
I was told I would have "under five minutes" with Brooks. Now, I wish all interviews were as expeditious as this one; me firing off questions and subjects shooting back answers. I got just under two minutes with Brooks. That included him playing around with my startribune.com/video camera angles and the Oklahoma State U grad making it clear he's a fan of the Cowboys, not the OU Sooners. The situation was not helped by introducing myself as a Sooner, even though what I was trying to convey was that I, too, am from the Sooner State. Brooks is pretty mild-mannered so he got over the affront, observing that I was wearing orange.
Q: As a daddy of daughters I'm sure you've attended your share of tea parties, but has Trisha ever had you over for one of her miniatures-themed lunches?
A: She loves that stuff. Yeah.
Q: I know, I watch her Food Network show, "Trisha's Southern Kitchen."
A: Yeah.
