garth brooks. we're playing it.ecently got a chance to hang out with hem im be in close proximity. >> i was a big fan girl. >> you were really in it. >> it was such a fun show. maybe a little too much fun. i forgot i was working for a little bit. and you might have seen some of the special cma fest last night. it was filmed a few weeks ago, and i think i'm finally now recovering, because nashville mows h knows how to party. it's music city mayhem. >> this is like the cream de la creme. >> reporter: country fans from acrosshe nashville for a music festival. >> there's nothing like walking out on that stage and feeling the electricity of the fans from all over the world. >> it's cma fest, so known all over the world. >> reporter: the lineup? a country fan's dream come true. every chart topper in one venue, from brad paisley. ♪ give me a kiss >> reporter: to derks bentley. it's the kind of party he looks forward to every summer. >> i had enough fun for ten people last night. >> reporter: teach me the dance. >> the danc

away ♪ >> living in mississippi, country was a huge part of my life, and it was all because of garth brooks want to do. >> garth brooks is the biggest selling artist of the decade and the fastest selling artist ever. >> he's been described as a cross between john wayne and mick jagger. the looks of a cowboy and moves of a rock 'n' roll star. >> it sounded like rock & roll. guitars. >> that's what people liked about rock shows, everybody singing along. >> the acts became less twangy that 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 record charts with over $2 billion in sales and climbing. >> as the boom in the music takes hold, western wear dealers can't keep up with demand. >> you have kids, a house payment and these people are more like you are than madonna is. ♪ is there life out there so much she hasn't done ♪ >> women in country was huge thing in the '90s. reba mcentire, martina mcbride, the dixie chicks, shania twain. ♪ let's go girls

garth brooks was essentially springsteen in a cowboy hat. everything felt possible.ed out there, and the videos were on 24 hour rotation. >> it's interesting, all those things you mentioned. they're still very much alive today in music culture. pop country, it is there. it's huge. you think of some of these artists, pearl jam, they're still around, but hip-hop's influence. i mean, these are things that have lasted decades, right? >> since they came in the '90s. >> exactly, the artists have changed but the impact the genres had are still there. hip-hop is rock and role, it is the dominant music, that really comes to the fore in the 1990s, you have albums that aren't just played on urban radio, they're played everywhere. >> sorry to interrupt. we were showing another '90s phenomena there, the boy band. it certainly peeked in the '90s, but it's not gone anywhere. >> teen pop, you have this explosion of britney spears the backstreet boys n sync. a lot of these kids came from the disney factory. they were seasoned, they knew how to perform and get a song across. by the '9

posted shots of his early gig, as a security guard at one of garth brooks concerts back in 1995.wo reunited at garth's l.a. show - he even signed eric's photos. the insider's louis aguirre joins us from hollywood with more on celebs - before they were famous. (----louis----)how cool was that?and we've got more celeb stories before they were famous.as we go inside the stars first jobs!i think my very first job was working the gas island at sears. or when i became a bus girl at bonanza steak house, i don't remember vo#1and check out where some of the "dancing with the stars" cast got their start! 1:46:46 one of my very first jobs in theater was a pantomine at windson castle at england//royal music hit-shot of windsor castlederak 1:46:53 jack and the beanstalk, and i played the giant and i had to wear wooden stilts an a big suit.1:41:50 yes, i remember my very first job, i went to japan and i was a pop star.sot up-music 1:48 carrie ann singing song.....carrie 1:42:12 it was interesting, i was japaneese, chineese, irish from hawaii and went to japan and had sort of a culture shock an

every chart topper in one venue from brad paisley to dierks bentley, even classics like garth brooks. ten people last night. >> you need to teach me the dance. >> the dance? >> the dance, oh, oh. >> how am i doing. >> there you got it. >> reporter: thomas rhett is taking on hosting duty as long with his former tour mate ballerini. >> i feel like we have a different perspective. we came as fans. >> you come full circle. >> we both went to where we sat as fans and had a moment of oh, my gosh. we get to do this. >> are you sick of each other yet. >> no. >> i'm sick of her but -- >> well. ♪ i can use the love >> reporter: maren morris says she's honored to represent the women. >> getting to do my own set this year and be a woman on that stage is really empowering. >> reporter: newcomers like brett young perform at the riverfront by day and sometimes earn a spot on the big stage, nissan stadium by night. >> i think as an artist you build your bucket list and that was one i hadn't even -- it wasn't going to happen yet this year. >> reporter: but one of the most coveted tickets in town isn't