Shopping The Song To Other Artists
Garth provided the following background information on the song in the CD booklet liner notes from The Hits:
""Friends in Low Places" was the last demo session I ever did as a singer. The demo was for Bud Lee and Dewayne Blackwell. I sang the session out in Hendersonville, and for the next two weeks the chorus to this song kept running through my head. I knew it would be a year and a half before the release of No Fences because Garth Brooks was just getting ready to be released. I asked Bud Lee and Dewayne if I could hold on to it and, without a blink of an eye, they both said yes. Putting that kind of faith into an unknown artist is unheard of. Thanks Dewayne and Bud for believing in me."
While Brooks claimed in the liner notes that "Friends in Low Places" was held for him, there is evidence that suggests otherwise. The song was shopped around Nashville, and it ended up with Mark Chesnutt, another up-and-coming country singer. He recorded the song for his 1990 debut album Too Cold at Home (released only a month after No Fences), and included it as the b-side to his late-1991 single "Broken Promise Land".
During an appearance on the former MSN Online Game OutSmart, Garth Brooks stated that George Strait was offered "Friends in Low Places" but passed.
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