Cool album...

Just had to plug this album my buddy Trever gave me this week. It's not a new album - actually was realeased in 1999 by... Garth Brooks? Yup - that's him on the cover. It's a wierd story actually. Garth redid a bunch of Chris Gaines songs for a movie he was writing the script for called The Lamb. The movie was never released for some reason... it's just a very cool album - full of many different styles - and Garth is fantastic. Here's a bit more about the movie etc...from Chris Gaines' web link:

The Lamb has been the subject of many rumors over the last few years. Mainly because it was well known that Garth Brooks was writing a movie script, and that it would be a story about the life of a musician in the public eye. That was the majority of details known about the project. Not much more is known now.

This wasn't going to be an autobiography, a new character was created, nothing at all like Brooks. In the Fall of 1999, Chris Gaines was introduced as the main character of The Lamb. Producers Don Was, Babyface, and Garth got together and recorded the first Gaines album to get people familiar with Chris and his music, well in advance of the movies release. The CD case to "In The Life of Chris Gaines" describes itself as the "Pre-Soundtrack" to The Lamb.

Other than the fact that Paramount Pictures will be distributing the movie, further details are sketchy.

Garth has taken on the on-stage character of Gaines. However Garth has not been cast to play Gaines on-screen.

As of February 2001 The Lamb was in pre-production, and could possibily be released to theaters in late 2001 or 2002.