Friends In Low Places

Garth Brooks, Country Music’s most popular superstar during the 1990’s, earned much of his audience with his down-to-earth ballads and rocking country tunes. Case and point: Friends in Low Places quickly became the theme song for honky-tonk bars everywhere. This ode to the local watering hole is about hang-loose places populated by ordinary, hang-loose people. It reached beyond the borders of country music and earned Brooks a mainstream following. Aside from garnering numerous country awards, Friends in Low Places crossed the Atlantic, and cracked the top 40 of U.K.’s pop charts. Above all that though, is the song’s greatest achievement: earning top spot on CMT’s list of greatest drinking songs of all time.