

Rossi thanked the audience and introduced the night's next warm-up act, none other than Trisha Yearwood.

It all started simply with an opening set from Nashville singer-songwriter and Brooks collaborator Matt Rossi, who sang a short set of country favorites from the likes of George Strait and David Allan Coe while clad in a Roger Staubach jersey. Impressed, Phelps produced Brooks' first demo, establishing a North Texas connection with the biggest name in country music that has lasted nearly four decades.īrooks' concert Saturday night at AT&T was a love letter to a region that made his career, the fans who have supported him since the beginning and the people closest to him who have made his career possible.

Back in 1985, an entertainment attorney from Dallas named Rod Phelps caught wind of a young country singer who’d been wowing audiences in Oklahoma honky-tonks and bars, so he drove up to a Tulsa club to see Garth Brooks play.
