“I just felt that country music was really what was inside me,” he says.
“[Steven] played me a Chris Stapleton track, and it just destroyed me.
I thought,‘Thisis where I belong…
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This is a new era, and I’m no longer that other person.
It’s time to do what I love and not what everyone asks me to do.'”
On January 8,Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook Vol.
Below, Gibb walks through a few favorite moments from creatingGreenfields.
“It just gave me chills!”
“It was a thrill to be there.
She does not take it for granted.”
She had a number of country records.
We’ve always known each other without really meeting.
So lately, we’re much closer.
That’s a great thing."
“Keith even brought Nicole Kidman with him, which was an incredible thrill, too.
She was a very, very normal person, very sweet.”
“They leapt all over ‘Butterfly,’ which was out in 1966.
It just worked out wonderful.”
“Robin was much more concerned about whatever’s a hit.
You’ve gotta love something, and I love this music.
I love real songs, that’s what it is.”
Correction:An earlier version of this story misspelled the name of Barry Gibb’s son.
