page_title: The Garth Brooks World Tour (1996–98)
section_title: Background and content
hierarchical_section_title: The Garth Brooks World Tour (1996–98) / Background and content
caption_attribution_description: The last time I saw him play. It was a great concert that lead to an interesting night of events.
context_page_description: The Garth Brooks World Tour is a concert tour by American country pop artist Garth Brooks. Launching in support of Brooks' albums, Fresh Horses, and later Sevens, the tour followed Brooks' 1993–94 tour and also featured appearances by Trisha Yearwood. The tour ran from March 12, 1996, to November 22, 1998 for a total of 220 concerts. Even though this was Brooks' final concert tour before his retirement in 2001, it drew record-breaking crowds in North America, two places in Ireland, and one place in South America, becoming the third-most attended concert tour of all time, as well as one of the decade's highest-grossing concert tours.
context_section_description: After his first successful world tour, Brooks embarked on his second, covering many cities at random throughout the United States and Canada, with appearances in Ireland and Brazil. Initially launching to support Brooks' 1995 album, Fresh Horses, it also began to feature songs from Sevens, released in 1997. The concerts' outline evolved as the set lists changed throughout the tour. Each show began with smoke-filled entrance by Brooks, appearing via hydraulic lift through a piano as the opening notes of "The Old Stuff" were played. Wearing a wireless microphone headset, Brooks proceeded to dance about the stage, performing a series of old and new songs. The high energy and pyrotechnics garnered comparison to hard rock performances by bands including Kiss, while still achieving a country atmosphere. Following the release of Brooks' album, Sevens, Trisha Yearwood began making periodic appearances to perform duets, such as "In Another's Eyes".
caption: Brooks and band performs in 1998 at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky.
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