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living in mississippi, country was a huge part of my life, and it was all because of garth brooks. the first time i ever saw him in concert, i was probably 10 or 11 years old. to the oasis i said, that is exactly what i want to do. garth brooks is the biggest-selling artist of the decade and the fastest-selling musical artist ever. he s been described as a cross between john wayne and mick jagger. he s got the looks of a cowboy and the moves of a rock n roll star. it sounded like rock n roll. guitars and big drums and everybody singing along. that s what people liked about rock shows. as the acts became maybe less twangy in their way, that really just expanded their audience. artists like george strait or brooks & dunn, plenty of acts worked their way up and became massive. over the last two years, country music has taken over the airwaves and the record charts with over $2 billion in sales and climbing.