Garth Brooks has shed light on why he's decided to take the unprecedented step of making all his 2026 Blame It All On My Roots Tour tickets the exact same price.

The ‘If Tomorrow Never Comes’ hitmaker is making every ticket $154 - plus applicable taxes - with passes for Brooks’ August 21st and 22nd tour-dates at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indiana, Indianapolis going on-sale this Friday, July 17th at 10am ET.

In a new statement shared via his official website, Brooks makes it clear that he's fed up of ticket scalping, and that his unique pricing model is an attempt to block scalpers from raising prices through bots, “I've never understood why scalping is legal. I don't think I am making it too simple by saying if we just make scalping illegal, a bunch of the problems of today's ticketing procedures would be gone”.

Brooks goes on, “I've always wanted to go to the 'powers that be' and tell them I would be happy to do a tour without scalping if they want to see if we all miss it or not”.

This echoes remarks Brooks made in a previous statement, also via his website, where he expressed his fears about ticket reselling and the overall prices of concert tickets, “The cost of going to a concert is skyrocketing out of control...There's the ticket price. Currently, the average country concert ticket price is $175. That's the average. Dang! You never go alone, so double it, at least. Parking? Want a T-shirt or two? Maybe dinner? You are looking at one expensive evening”.

Brooks expands, “Affordability is always the question. And that's more challenging today than it has ever been in my career. Did I think in the '90s that $20, $50 was a lot of money? You bet. Do I think $20 or $50 is still a lot of money? Yes, I do. With that said, touring costs are not the same as they were in the '90s. Hell, on the Comeback Tour, I saw in some cities that parking cost more than tickets”.

The country legend concludes, “There are always going to be people who tell you, ‘I'd love to come see you, I just can't afford it’. Those people have all of my respect. I believe it is my job to try to make the number of people who say that as small as possible”.

The anticipation is sky-high ahead of Brooks’ Blame It All On My Roots Tour, especially given the fact that he'll be bringing back his now-iconic Drum Pod stage mechanism from his 1996 tour of the same name. More dates expected to be unveiled soon.