Holiday gift-giving got a little easier for music lovers this year with the recent release of Garth Brooks’ new album, Man Against Machine — and one of the highlights of the album is Garth’s new single, a song that he says is very close to his heart. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• Pick up Garth’s Man Against Machine album at your favorite music store, and you can find it digitally on GhostTunes.com.

  Garth Brooks talks about his new single, “Mom.” (:30)
“My favorite song on the album, and very possibly could become my favorite song of my entire career is on this album, and it’s a song simply called ‘Mom.’ And of course, you know, if you know me (laughs), that’s…I’m a mama’s boy, so that’s the greatest…I’m the greatest fan of that song simply from its substance. But how this song describes what a mother is, man, it’ll make you stop, pull the car over, and just listen to it. And that is what music is all about.”