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According to wiki: Chris Gaines (born Aug1) was a fictional Australian rock star persona created as an alter ego for Garth Brooks to explore rock and roll styles far removed from his success as a country singer. It’s spare and sincere, with Glover backed only by backing singers and an organ - an interpretation that actually works outside all the pranksterish context. I had no clue what his alter ego name was. For Triple J’s Like A Version series, Glover sang “Lost In You” as a tender, halting soul ballad. It’s the only top-40 hit in Brooks’ career, which says more about how Billboard was tabulating charts in the ’90s and less about Brooks’ popularity, which was astronomical. The song made it to #5 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 1999, Garth Brooks released an album under the fictional rock persona Chris Gaines so that he could explore other music genres beyond country - but he seems to have kept his alter ego in the '90s. The tender ballad “Lost In You” was the one weird little pop success of the Chris Gaines saga. During that time, he took the time to show up on Australia’s Triple J radio network to cover a damn Chris Gaines song. Glover is making up a previously cancelled tour, one called off because of an injury, and he’s said, somewhat ambiguously, that it’ll be his final outing as Childish Gambino. Right now, Donald Glover, a man who knows a few things about playing with persona (and, for that matter, about being simultaneous host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live) is on tour in Australia - the fictional homeland of Chris Gaines and a place where Glover was once booed offstage. The Chris Gaines music is all out of print now.
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The Chris Gaines album flopped, the movie never happened, and Brooks abandoned the project. He also hosted Saturday Night Live, as Garth Brooks, and did musical-guest duties in character as Chris Gaines.
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As in: The biggest hits of this fictional character.) Brooks did a fake episode of VH1’s Behind The Music about Chris Gaines. He tried to stoke anticipation by releasing an album called Garth Brooks In… The Life Of Chris Gaines. But the entire presentation was bizarre.īrooks had this whole idea to play Gaines in a movie called The Lamb - probably not too big an ask for a star of Brooks’ wattage. The music that he made was gentle and sensitive and pretty close to what Garth Brooks was already doing. Brooks renamed himself Chris Gaines - a strangely pedestrian moniker for such a far-out project. He introduced a whole new alter-ego, an Australian rock star with complicated facial hair. In the late ’90s, Garth Brooks was one of the biggest stars in the United States, and he was arguably the biggest star in country music history. The saga of Chris Gaines is a truly weird, inexplicable, generally forgotten episode in music-business history.