Garth Brooks is considered one of the greatest country music artists of our day, but he wasn’t the first one in his family to pick up a guitar. His mother, Colleen McElroy Carroll, was actually signed to Capitol Records back in the 1950s. It was her passion for music that inspired Brooks to pursue a career path that eventually led him to be crowned the “World’s Best Selling Country Artist” in 1994, along with a slew of other awards over the past several decades.
Colleen tragically died of throat cancer back in 1999, but not before she got to see her son become one the biggest names country music has ever known.
As a self-proclaimed “mama’s boy,” Brooks has never forgotten the strong woman who made him into the man he is today. So back in 2014, he decided to pen a beautiful song titled “Mom” as a tribute to his sweet mama.