Garth Brooks can be upset all he wants about his rivalry with a comedian that claims the country star is a serial killer… but he basically lobbed a softball up to Tom Segura by naming his forthcoming live album “Killer Live.”
In case you missed it, the “Friends in Low Places” singer is officially returning to the road with his Blame It All On My Roots Tour that will kick off next month. The news was confirmed both on his website and Garth’s official social media accounts. The country superstar told everyone that the “wait is over,” and happily announced that his Blame It All On My Roots Tour will get kicked off in August:
“Going back into the arenas is about putting the stadium show in a box. The excitement gets multiplied by the intimacy. Every seat is a great seat. This is personal.”
As far as tour dates go, the only ones that Garth Brooks has revealed are the first two nights – August 21 and 22 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. Tickets for those back-to-back shows go on sale Friday, July 17. And I’m sure we’ll hear more about other stops Garth’s tour will make throughout the country by then.
Brooks had also promised new music when he first teased an announcement to come in 2026, and now we know what exactly that will entail. Through his website – garthbrooks.com – he shared that his new album will be in the form of a live record titled Killer Live. It’s set to be recorded throughout the Blame It All On My Roots tour dates.
Here’s exactly how the news about the live album was broken on Garth’s website:
“Garth is not just performing; he is recording. The ‘Blame It All On My Roots Tour’ will serve as the foundation for ‘Killer Live,’ a groundbreaking new approach to live recording that continues Brooks’s tradition of capturing history in real time.”
Yes, Killer Live is the title… really teeing one up from Tom Segura and the Mommies, eh G?
If you aren’t familiar with the rivalry, it has quite the backstory. The whole joke that Tom Segura cooked up and directed at the 2-time Grammy winner stems from a video that Garth Brooks released back in 2018 promoting his Stadium Tour. If you happened to miss it, the country music legend’s cold, dead eyes throughout the announcement rubbed him the wrong way… especially when Garth weirdly says he really likes “getting physical playing music.”
The other video that gave Tom endless material was Garth’s “Welcome to Facebook” video from way back in 2014. Shot from a dimly lit hotel room, it’s given us iconic phrases such as “I like that,” “slick stuff, neat stuff, raw stuff,” “think of it as a conversation” and “let the conversation begin.”
Believe it or not, those two videos sparked an entire movement (and a subsequent Netflix show where Tom Segura really went after Garth Brooks).
Segura and his wife – fellow comedian Christina Pazsitzky (hosts of the Your Mom’s House podcast) – stumbled upon the bizarre announcement video for Garth’s Stadium Tour back in 2018, as well as the Facebook video, and they absolutely ran with the “this guy might be a serial killer” joke. Loyal followers of Segura and Pazsitzky followed the lead of the two comedians and then started bombarding any social media posts of Brooks’ with comments asking:
“Where are the bodies Garth?”
Needless to say, because of that, Garth Brooks has been confirmed to not like Tom Segura, and understandably so. The country star often has to turn off the comments section on his social media posts… which just makes the people behind Tom Segura’s “Where are the bodies?” movement that much more suspicious.
And there’s no doubt that Tom Segura’s army of commentators will be all over the country star’s upcoming album being titled “Killer Live.” It’s so on the nose that I’m even thinking that Brooks might just be leaning into the joke at this point…
