New from Routledge E:: C)r hie I RAY WADDELL
[email protected] A Brief History of "Robins presents his Rock, Off the Record [work] with enthusiasm and breezy good Souled Out humor... His tone is McGraw /Hill Tour Sets New Milestone ideal for the topic and Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are in the record a separate, individual "tour." Like Twain, the format, a welcome relief books as a touring duo. McGraw /Hill trek utilized the same basic The second year of the McGraw /Hill (mega) production, title and theme for its en- from the disproportionate Soul2Soul tour grossed more than $52 million, tire run, making it one "tour" per se. number of self -important taking the two- summer total for the husband - Despite the big box office country is seeing and -wife co- headliners to more than $141 mil- these days, Brooks still holds the attendance academic treatises on lion, according to Billboard Boxscore record for a multiyear run at about 5.5 million. modern popular music." (billboard.biz, Sept. 4), That's enough to make "Garth definitely wins on attendance," says it the top -grossing country tour ever. The out- Scott Siman, McGraw's manager at Front Line - Kirktis Reviews ing wrapped Aug. 10 -11 at the Honda Center Management. "Of course, back then you could in Anaheim, Calif., with $2.5 million gross. sell 10 million records, too." Soul2Soul II now tops Garth Brooks' three - Siman says that what makes Soul2 Soul year megatour in support of his 1998 Capitol unique is providing "two superstars," along release "Sevens," which grossed more than $105 with "the biggest, most state -of-the -art produc- million.