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. 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.