Garth Brooks Performs ‘All-American Kid’ at the 2015 ACM Awards [WATCH]

Garth Brooks took the stage to perform "All-American Kid" during the 2015 ACM Awards. He was introduced by talk show host Nancy O'Dell and Taya Kyle, widow of Chris Kyle, the subject of the blockbuster movie American Sniper.

The song, which is on Brooks' newest album, Man Against Machine, was written by Craig Campbell and dedicated to the servicemen and -women serving all over the world. The tune was also played in memory of those who lost their lives during the Oklahoma City bombing 20 years ago.

“We’re lucky enough to travel around the world playing music, but the first thing I’ll tell anybody [is] … ‘Hey dude, I’m American.’ I’m not gonna to change to fit your format. We’re not going to lose the steels, we’re not going to lose the fiddles. We’re going to do what we do. And that’s country music with muscle in it,” Brooks says. “And I gotta tell ya, "All-American Kid" is exactly that, just Garth Brooks country music with a hell of a lot of muscle.”

Brooks played a special guitar, given to him by Buck Owens, for the performance.

“The night I was proposing to my wife, he brought me a red, white and blue Telecaster, a Buck Telecaster,” Brooks recalls. “It’s the first time I’ve broken it out and am going to play it [Sunday night].”

The singer revealed that he wasn't actually sure if he was going to sing or lip sync his performance, due to his busy concert schedule, which included five shows in Portland, Ore., last week.

“After the first show [in Portland], I won’t have a voice left," Brooks revealed. "So we actually went in, and we taped — just in case we have to lip sync — we taped a performance that was solely made for the awards show."

Whether he lip synced or sang live, it was good to see Brooks back on the ACM Awards stage. Last year, he introduced George Strait and Miranda Lambert, who paid tribute to Merle Haggard.

Brooks has won 21 ACM Awards, including six Entertainer of the Year trophies, with the last one in 1999. He's nominated in the category again tonight, but he says that just being named in the category was significant for him.

That’s a sweet nod,” Brooks says. “So whether you win or not, it’s like, can’t believe you’re in it, so it feels cool.”

Brooks will continue his World Tour later this month with a series of shows in State, College, Pa., followed by stops in Omaha, Neb., and Tampa, Fla. A list of his upcoming concerts is available on his website.

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