Garth Brooks Calls Himself 'Badass' Thanks to New 'Man Against Machine' Cover

We previously reported that Garth Brooks still gets nervous before shows, a factoid he admitted to Indiana radio station WKDQ. But there were plenty of other nuggets from the same interview, including Brooks's assertion that his most recent album cover — for Man Against Machine — makes him look like a badass.

This surfaced when the DJ asked him to name his favorite cover.

"That's tough. Tough, tough, tough, tough," he said, via The Boot. "I'm going to have to go with ... Well, I'm going to pick the one that's out right now, Man Against Machine, because if you know me, I'm the farthest thing from a badass you've ever met, but I got to look like a badass on this cover."

Brooks has never had one of his album titles share a name with one of its tracks until now. But as usual, he did things in a unique manner and came up with the album title before bringing the "Man Against Machine" track alive.

"The album was always titled Man Against Machine, but as we're cutting this thing, [I] start[ed] to realize how much the music is up against," he said. "You know, in the 14 years being away, and then dropping you back in, what [I'm] seeing is, there's a lot of companies making money off music that think they're doing music a favor. So, music's uphill. They've got a hard battle to fight to stay sincere, to pay songwriters, all this stuff."

You can almost picture the lightbulb above the country legend's head.

"So [I] started realizing, not only is it man against machine for this whole record, but there probably should be a song that leads it off talking about that as well," he said. "So it's funny, you know, most of the time, the album titles come from the songs, but this time the song came from the album title."

Check out the "badass" album cover below:

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