Garth Brooks honored at Library of Congress’ Gershwin Prize for Popular Song
The Library of Congress honors Garth Brooks with the 2020 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song during a concert at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., March 4, 2020. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song is usually a pretty prescribed, buttoned-down affair. Staged for public TV and attended by members of Congress, the show’s tribute songs are painstakingly rehearsed, its speeches carefully written and timed.
Of country heroes he touched upon, he included just one Merle Haggard tune, though he said he was so “scared to death” doing “Sing Me Back Home” he had to start it over. Returning to sing the stirring 1992 “We Shall Be Free,” backed by the Howard University Chorale, Urban noted how far-thinking its lyrics were, calling for a time “When we’re free to love anyone we choose” and “when we can all worship from our own kind of pews.”
Brooks observed all of it from a box near the stage, doffing his big Stetson in thanks and dabbing his eyes. When his wife Trisha Yearwood sang, backed with a string section, Brooks stood through the performances of “The Change,” which they wrote together, and was affected by the emotional “For the Last Time,” describing their own love story.
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