today on larry king it's god's rope's great public to thank you that's what airbrush will do for you what other field other than music particularly country music could you get away with saying hey look i'm having children and i want to just be with them for fourteen years and they say we'll be here when you get back plus i don't know if you know this or not but i don't have these talks with everybody you're one of the rare ones that's all ahead on larry king now. larry king now for over a c.b.s. studios in the valley in california our special guest is god brooks he is the biggest selling country artist in history and he has a new get this eight does box set out called blame it on my roots it's being

released as a wal-mart exclusive you've called this the soundtrack of your life explaining that it's all the music i grew up on being the last to six kids mom and dad started the family early so there was never really a generation gap so music just poured into our house from probably three decades before me in two decades to me so there's easily five decades of influence in there so it's not just your son now you know this is this is. this is the music i grew up on and how it translated and morphed into the music that people knows garth music got to make a show which is great so you do a lot of you do dame stalest of it we do we cover everybody that for me that influenced our house simon and garfunkel's all over a house as a kid we were just behind the beatles in the stone so we got a lot of the folk stuff we got a lot of townes van zandt tom rush read it how long to put this together forever.

that's been a work that's been a work of labor for quite some time so about a little over a year and a half but that was wal-mart because i got to tell you if you're going to deliver product a day and you're going to live or something this size you want at a price people kind of for and wal-mart buy is in quantities so large that you can go back to your publishers manufacturers and everything and they can take reduced rates to make this thing work they'll still make more money than they ever could have at a full rate on a smaller order and that's wal-mart's secret it's always been their secret is to make sure i love them because that they squeeze everything down and they don't hang on to it they pass that on to the customer because i know every penny of this thing and for them to be selling it it twenty four ninety six or whatever it is those are the. yeah they said they decide that it's the perfect gift or the perfect price for this holiday season i just love it because are some in there for everybody and but when you do that you're limiting it to one place where i get it so i can't go get

it somewhere else you know wal-mart said you know physically there's not a digital outlet for it so wal-mart's going to be the only place and you know what i'm fine with that because still i'm a physical guy still at this point of the center right yes but that would influence you a great deal very much so well remember on the last six kids and a sister that was ten times more talented than anybody else you play guitar she played bass for us for years and you just did a special initiative and we're taping this right before but you did a bunch of live banks giving from the women how many is that you do the women we do that when a four years it was a great run they're going to go back to yeah. i love my relationship with steve when things are good man i want to keep their music or not but he's also allowed me to have one of the greatest sounding rooms i've ever been in if not the best sounding member or been in as kind of like my playground to do whatever i want someone to take him up on so you see him e-mail to fans. in october you said the

sevens have aligned it has a big. thank you for believing love geno what the sevens you mean the stars what just some big of for the one i'm a big fan of the number seven and i kind of follow i'm a firm believer that god exists a child of god and feel very blessed to do so with that i also believe in karma and for me sevens when sevens lined up things go well when we had just surpassed our seventy seven thousand seven hundred seventy seven person that had signed up for g dot com and i thought that was a good time to start launching similar for us what's going to be going back to the wynn. going to tour again you know we'll see about that we you know we to make that announcement of stuff is going to take a lot more thought that we've put into it so far because it takes a lot more voices than just mine and i need to talk to my children even though they are grown get now the house still it takes on a tour is

a lot of need to talk to the most important person is the boss the wife and see if that's how she wants to spend her will too with you i couldn't go with oh no she's she's what makes. she's what makes life life and that's where she's at i'm good so so that sounds like you're going to too well. i just haven't told anybody yet and so when we go back to when. the when i think we're going in january i'm sure we've announced that yet. ok we're going to go two weeks and then we're going to go there when for the new year's eve thing we're going take the band for the first time ever battle really you know i'm on stage alone that the one man show ended when we did the live show on c.b.s. so the band now is going to come and probably do the same they just take requests and talk and then if so how often you do it you do it like every three weeks you come in for friday and saturday for when that gigs over for me so now when i play it it's just whenever the only date we have on the books with when is new years

this next year and that's it those are two of the things he's offered it on what they came up on with the band yeah why that decision i just i love being with the band and i love taking the band into a room that intimate used to take a band into a hockey arena football stadium some like that but they use a band there's sixty seven pieces and you've got a daughter graduating high school right last one who has won out her base so this gives you room yeah now and now you know when she does if and when she does graduate goodwill and then beamish year would have to choose for how we want to spend the rest of us if you do tour again big arenas. well yeah i just i just want to do what i did tell you madison square stay yeah let's let's talk about the arco rain in sacramento and rain in lexington target center st paul minneapolis these are the places we sounds like you got it aligned with these are places like the

seven snow you when you go these places you're guaranteed a good time because that's the people are going to come and they are going to come in they're going to sing and it's going to be the greatest time of your life on stage it's guaranteed does it matter to you bigger or smaller than a matter at all because the wind is small but these what is it two thousand and two when it's fifteen hundred but these people will sing like dublin croke park you know where you can put that eighty thousand in there these people seem just like a mad loud if they can't stop their long love that it's the bismarck that is now right at us through the whole of the great gift thank you and god very proud of this great cover to thank you that's what airbrush will do for you. play by the way i get it we've been together so many times have you ever worn slacks. you know with slacks so i think at the crease things the things you wear funerals yes you have to remember the last time you yeah unfortunately you know you wear suits to funerals

and weddings and stuff so yeah i remember that. i got i want to get this right according to the record industry association the beatles have sold one hundred seventy seven million oh it was one thirty four point five and you stand a one twenty eight the third biggest album selling august of all time and that's very sweet you know if this keeps going and you're only fifty two you're going to pass all those. values are present only six million behind you know. what is the word here there's two words or squandered in there quality if you focus on quality quantity is going to take care of itself. because you know the two names you mentioned quality you think you know so if you just focus on quality then you might be confused with the greats and sinatra told me once there's a lot to be said for longevity if you've been around a while somebody like you're. really lucky we're very lucky and you know you

want to talk about longevity. let's talk about sports let's talk about hollywood anything you want what other field other than music particularly country music could you get away with saying hey look i'm having children and i want to just be with them for fourteen years and they say we'll be here when you get back. why is that uniquely country i don't know thing i don't know if it is uniquely country but i can only feel the music because i can say goodbye it might happen on a few on a few names with a few fans but to country music it's the whole format they've been so sweet to just say oh your kids you betcha and let us know when you get back we were together when you left yeah was it hard to leave i know you love the family but was it was hard not to do what you love to do. ok and what to say this but it's just go

between you and me ok. you did it scared to death you stepped away and you thought ok i'm saying all the right things doing this for my kids this is it and then when you left you thought holy what happens if if these people don't come back what happens if these people move on and you're going is it worth the trade every day as a dad just made it more right nothing beats fun no it's like what they had to be days when you said. i liked. things that way tonight i'd like to but the truth is if i never get to play again and i got to be a dad i won hands down as much as i love music you know it's the love of my life it can't compare to being a dad so in two thousand and nine comes this call from steve wynn who changed my life forever without changing anything in my life who's going to be that easy he

sure did he came to me and the first thing i was mouth disease said this deal is easy and i said oh really he goes yeah because it's not about money and he said that while you've got my attention fool because it's about not disturbing your life at home so this guy's smart do you think a young artist today someone along to the stones over these the business changed enough the record because we've talked a lot about the record business you need someone could be a young guy could have a garth brooks career. yeah i mean you know the three names you mention pretty far apart from each other in decades you know so i think you can always happen i think as long as you're sincere then i think the people will be wherever you are as long as you get another statistic regular music sales in two thousand and one with the record music sales was one thirteen point seven billion last year is seven point one billion that is

a forty eight percent drop where is it going. truth i mean you really want to go here you know we're going to see. well if you want to hear something today go to youtube you know do you hear anything well you don't have to play with the nobody gets nobody gets the songwriters that create this piece or listen to get nothing. you know what they can talk about all day the deals that they're doing and stuff but the songwriters are going to shorten the stick. no you're not asking for this long answer but in life they taught me there's four levels in life god your wife your children and whatever it is you do for a living most of my life i've had that kind of side down right well in music i'm going to give it to you the right way to do it songwriter is first artist record label and the technology that plays that music right now if you look at it.

technology is running everything which all they care about is selling their widgets or selling their their space their record labels who own all the copyrights are having to do whatever they say to get it done which puts the artist third and when you put the songwriter on the bottom then music's naturally going to suffer. and you know there's more singles and albums right that's a scissors feel buying the trend yeah well the thing is let's talk about the album versus single the thing with singles the singles are always safe every now and then once in a blue moon you will get a single that is safe. but as an album you can put out a safe single but on that album are going to be some unsafe songs that really reach people and those people are going to cry for those to be singles. so now we have something unsafe on there that's making us all think about loving one another how we're treating one another and it's not safe that's when music does its greatest

work so it all singles market to me just sounds like you're going to hear pretty much the same thing over and over again so i would i would caution the whole music industry to not give up on the album cuts it. all with a great dog brooks right after this wealthy british style it's time to. market. it's going to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report. it was a. very hard to take

a. look at that that would make their feelings. of the people.

back with god broached his thanksgiving especially did that live from the when he'll be at the women jenny where you learned it right he didn't want to say it but he said you beat it to me there more times through nineteen eighteen to twenty fourteen i learned things from god and you could trust me he's going to fight we already know some of the sites it's going to be in sacramento that stuff like that at. the country music awards just gave the pinnacle award to taylor swift i think you're the only other one who's gotten it right yes or what you think of her love her she's sharp she's smart very talented and she. she's doing her thing and you know the the whole question with taylor of course is country not country and where is country not well. i don't know if you caught her acceptance speech on the a.m.a.'s but this little girl's brilliant and she is and off from the acceptance

speech she thinks country radio but she also thinks hot ac and all these other one because not thinking about format allows her to write whatever she feels that was a beautiful statement be it will stay in the works for her me under the flag of country music very proud to be on the flag of country music and i'll stay there but i like that answer from her that answered a lot politically we think there's several we think the right wing republican you came out for gay rights are you against the trend is country still conservative not a country whose country is real life country is the news at six o'clock put to music i mean that's it but you know what let's talk about let's talk about republicans talk about democrat it's. as far left or far right i think ninety nine percent of us live in the middle somewhere i really do so. you are socially liberal i'm not

going to i'm not going to label country music as a close minded format at all i think it's i think it speaks well of the times and even when it was blamed as a close format sixty's haggard jones these guys were singing about real modern day stuff loretta lynn comes out with the pill you know the songs that address all this stuff oh my god i'm trying to think could be a gay country artist sure there could be sure and then and there probably are you know the thing is the thing is man would you it's just people is i think we're all scared to just be ourselves and what i love about my daughter's generation right now they love each other just for them you know you're seeing the bullying stuff like that i don't know if we'll ever outgrow that but you're seeing a lot more tolerance in a lot of things like children with special needs they're not anymore put on a shelf in a different place in the high school they're right there among the kids and they're doing wonderful things with these kids during sporting athletics and all these

events so they're showing a lot more love for their generation i think than in a generation past has any link been a good info. scared to death scared for the kids way too young to have children you know and the second they put their baby in my hands i got a girl you'll. get the dogs or girls who older she know she's well i wouldn't keep up with that she's four months seventeen days we say is money four months nineteen days and yes she's she's sees a doll you know grandparent thing is a lot different than parenting that's one of her course you get to go home. i've told my daughter said look if you just give me a week with her well give me a headstart you'll never find us oh i take this little girl in a heartbeat she's a doll you would do it was a raised by step mother and their mom yes all three of us yes step parenting is very hard because you really don't have the legal power to work out

well the first thing you did was i went to all three of my daughters and set them down they were very young at the time and to ask their permission to get married if they would have said no i would be really mean wish you would talk about this again here's your order of god your wife your children your job but in our situation the children came before miss yearwood so they have always been placed above her until they get off in their own life that's that's how the order is in the family and mischer would understand that and we talked about it but then at the wedding ceremony she also got married to each one of them individually they exchanged rings and they understood the commitment to themselves so when we when we we celebrate our anniversary we celebrated as five of us go out to dinner together and this is very important because i can't imagine what it's like to be a step parent miss you would call that a bonus mom which which i like but that's how our family was we were blended three

from mom's first marriage one from dad they came together and had the last two boys which i was one of the two but we were never allowed to use half step and it's intelligent you mentioned two up. you have a doubt it when you see no no no no no no i do i doubt i'm going to heaven you bets just because you see. they say about free will but when you see typhoons munson's trina free will had nothing to do with that so why don't you don't i don't doubt because. it's too brilliant for a human to think of the one thing that christ said to all of us go forth and show you are my disciples by what the one thing that the rich and poor could do black and white if you were old young if your handicap are not the one thing that is to love

that's brilliant and that's the most powerful weapon we have of all the stuff we try to construct as human beings that's the most but it doesn't mean that there isn't. something looking down ok well here's a here's a here's a my answer to that. let's say you let's say ok i'm having trouble believing in god i'm not sure here's the bible i want to go to the bible and please forgive me for all the bible people out there going to kill me for this everywhere you see christ everywhere you see god just simply scratch it out and just write love over it that to me what god is you're going to define god as somebody in a white robe with a white beard no i think that's so we can understand it in our heads but it's about love your grace oh yeah oh my god with kids because you pretty much learn as a parent you're not in control so i think you pray more as

a parent. you know god if he had talent i think god for everything. you know i the thing is you know. whether you get to go in or not whether whether there's good or something after this life i like that thought because if you're not accountable for your actions down here who keeps me from killing you just to have your shoes and i mean there's i mean we could talk all day about what exists or what doesn't exist but if there's no accountability that's why if you want to shift this from god and religion to the internet the internet is a blessing it's the future is so bright but not being accountable being totally anonymous in your actions and your voice i think that's dangerous before we get to some social media questions you do not have a twitter account trisha has one right why don't you tweet i'm not there yet and i

went back i don't write so it's back to you know what everything's about quality much better something to say and fans like to hear if somebody like you asked me i'll answer them but i don't i'm not a big i don't i don't do things i got one up at a grocery store i think that's stupid yeah i don't know if you know but i don't have these talks with everybody you're one of the rare ones i've done three thousand interviews today ok here's the difference tween a singles world and an album world i don't three thousand interviews a day and they all ask the exact same questions. you haven't because you're on an album format and not a three minute format so when you get that you get deep and so if you think i talk like this there buddy you can ask nancy you're going to use a veil i'm going to have to lay down after this one near you you get in dealin and it's appreciated i love i love doing it you can tell that we have some faith we have some internet questions media matt mclaughlin facebook how inspirational was

the late george jones on your career george jones as the greatest voice to ever grace country music this this guy was a country music's all about and male female i want to say that for me my favorite male country or small time talk about record sales it would this in vegas you heard this record sales musicianship album sales whatever is in haggard i think this guy is a genius but the greatest voice of all time to grace country music store show jody williams on facebook what song in the new box set was the most fun to cover probably superstition and the band when they saw the chart to go we're going to get to play superstition are you kidding me and that was that was that was fun and again no way can i touch stevie wonder's name but my whole thing is hope stevie wonder goes respect the tree of the song the way that it was it was written to reason birds of mars on facebook wasn't zero how did you feel about playing in

a smaller acoustic setting at the wynn versus a larger stadium did matter to me give me five people right here around this table give me a central park it's still the same thing and if you can touch those people that are in front of you around you and they send it back and that's what music's doing it's job steven burrill of on facebook would you revisit the chris gaines concept maybe another album yeah when my ribs fill up from the last. thing for doing that that was that was fun to do though but. you know i would i would love to do it those guys work too hard for me the guys in the pop world because they were we were up till three or four every morning country music were home you know you know by six so it's a lot easier to continue as they are it's just. hope we don't facebook in what ways as becoming a grandfather affected you. i'm different than

a dad tell you the truth. i hear i hear why people think grand kids are so much better than kids and i've even heard people say i should've had them first grandkids you know but i got to tell you i hate them leaving you alone you love larry gelbart the late larry gelbart great comedy where i was walking down the street once with his little granddaughter on the shoulder and he said to me you know why grandchildren and grandparents get along so well they have a common enemy. i can't agree with you yeah. i'm on it's on twitter wants to know favorite of tricia's dishes i can pick that one and be like picking your favorite child but now she's fantastic and you know she's a does your own is an amazing cook i'm telling you she can bake anybody on the planet i mean just her pies pies cakes you name it she never gets credit for that but she can she can she can hit a park on that very racy things on facebook what's on your bucket list.

nothing left what do you got left to do nothing. what i was done that's just ok if you only knew just couple quick things they were a give written. take that no idea probably below would maybe that i got to write with joe henry your favorite song to perform yet only do one performance left one song what would you sing a call in baton rouge are you kidding me that's the fun any song is sick of playing out of mind and the song you wish she had written the dance hall oil hailers forty have been here you know musician you'd most like to collaborate with dead or alive he said musician so it can be an artist right you know. characteristic you most but i do and others love just being able to do to

two to let all the things that you think showing the love makes you less or to put all that aside and just show. thank you very much. play with all of my roots five decades of influence is available at walmart our guest. you can follow me on twitter at kings things and i'll let you know his moniker when he tells me it. will be. science technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered. i've got a quote for you. it's pretty tough. stay where it's about story.

but if this guy like you would smear that guy instead of working for the people most issues the mainstream media are working for each other right right was a vision by. the bed rather.