Garth Brooks had a real hard time in the latter half of the '90s, running through a couple of muddled near-crossover records before diving off the deep end with the...
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Essentially, Garth Brooks's second album, No Fences, follows the same pattern as his debut, but it is a more assured and risky record. Brooks still performs neo-traditional...
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The Hits is exactly what it says it is -- 18 of Garth Brooks' biggest hits, including his first 14 number one singles. Although he has good album tracks on each of his...
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After The Hits, Brooks knew he needed a new direction but didn't know how to go there. Instead, he pushed his formula as far as he could, covering Aerosmith ("Fever")...
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There's a darn good reason Garth Brooks is one of the most popular singers in the world. Besides his pleasing-as-moonshine baritone, there is not a cowboy or cowgirl out...
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Given Garth Brooks' reputation as one of the 1990's hardest working concert performers--country or otherwise--it was just a matter of time before he'd release a live album....
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Garth Brooks' first live album, the generically titled Double Live, is a professionally entertaining album with a few nice bonuses -- including extra verses for "Friends in...
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The closest thing Brooks has to a traditional country album, with early hits like "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)" and "Not Counting You." Contains one of the best...
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On Garth Brooks' self-titled debut, his fusion of rock & roll and traditional country genres like honky tonk and Western swing is already fully formed as is his gift for...
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Brooks rediscovers the value of good old-fashioned honky-tonking on In Pieces, pulls off a big anthem ("Standing Outside The Fire") and reunites New Grass Revival for...
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After the relative commercial disappointment of The Chase, Garth Brooks toned down his experimental eclecticism on In Pieces. Alternating between heavily rock-influenced...
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No Fences sold 13 million copies and changed country music forever. The melodrama of songs like "The Thunder Rolls," "Friends In Low Places" and "Unanswered Prayers" changed...
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Brooks turns up his music a notch and, for the most part, succeeds. In "Papa Loved Mama," a jealous trucker rams his rig through the hotel room that contains his wife and...
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With Ropin' the Wind, Garth Brooks begins to make his '70s rock influences more explicit. Naturally, that is most notable in his reworking of Billy Joel's "Shameless," which...
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With the two best-selling albums in country music history behind him, Brooks starts to take his stardom too seriously, using it as a bully pulpit for social change. That...
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The Chase is Garth Brooks' most ambitious and personal album. Not coincidentally, it is one of his least popular releases, selling about half of what the previous Ropin' the...
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A holiday with such emotional overtones as Christmas just couldn't be a simple affair for Brooks, so while there's a handful of expected standards ("White Christmas," "God...
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One of the most succesful Christmas albums ever, Beyond the Season is a varied collection for a country star, even one as "progressive" as Brooks. The tunes range from a...
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When his popularity reached a plateau in the late '90s, Garth Brooks knew it was time to try something new, deciding to become somebody new: Chris Gaines, a brooding,...
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