No Fences [Bonus Track] by Garth Brooks (CD, Nov-2000, Capitol)

Album Features
UPC:	724353011925
Artist:	Garth Brooks
Format:	CD
Release Year:	2000
Record Label:	Capitol
Genre:	Contemporary Country, Country

Track Listing
1. Old Stuff, The
2. New Way to Fly
2. Cowboys and Angels
3. Fever, The
4. That Ol' Wind
5. Rollin'
6. Change, The
7. Beaches of Cheyenne, The
8. To Make You Feel My Love - (from "Hope Floats")
9. It's Midnight Cinderella
10. Mr. Blue
10. She's Every Woman
11. Ireland

Details
Playing Time:	37 min.
Contributing Artists:	Trisha Yearwood, Edgar Meyer, Susan Ashton
Producer:	Allen Reynolds
Distributor:	EMI Music Distribution
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	ADD

Album Notes
Personnel includes: Garth Brooks (vocals); Chris Leuzinger (acoustic & electric guitars); Pat Alger (acoustic guitar, background vocals); Johnny Christopher, Mark Casstevens (acoustic guitar); Bruce Bouton (steel guitar, background vocals); Rob Hajacos (fiddle, background vocals); Bobby Wood (acoustic & electric pianos, keyboards, background vocals); Edgar Meyer (acoustic bass); Milton Sledge (bass, drums); Mike Chapman (bass, background vocals); Trisha Yearwood, Wendy Johnson, Jennifer O'Brien, Hurshel Wiginton, Curtis Young, Dewayne Blackwell, Tim Bowers, Sandy Brooks, Jim Rooney, Stephanie C. Brown, Tami Rose, The Englands (background vocals).Nashville String Machine: George Binkley III, John Borg, Carl Gorodetzky, Lee Larrison, Dennis Molchan, Pamela Sixfin, Mark Tanner, Gary Vanosdale, Kristin Wilkinson.Recorded at Jack's Tracks Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee.Digitally remastered by Denny Purcell (Georgetown Masters).Garth Brooks was the winner of the 1990 Country Music Association's Horizon Award, given to a new artist with the most potential of devloping into a major star.Personnel: Garth Brooks (vocals, background vocals); James Garver (vocals, guitar, fiddle); Pat Alger, Ty England (vocals, acoustic guitar); Bruce Bouton (vocals, steel guitar); Dave Gant (vocals, fiddle, keyboards); Rob Hajacos (vocals, fiddle); Bobby Wood (vocals, piano, electric piano, keyboards); Tim Bowers (vocals, bass guitar); Jennifer O'Brien, Curtis Young, Trisha Yearwood (vocals, background vocals); DeWayne Blackwell, Earl of Bud Lee, Curry Worsham, Al "Shaggy" Barclay, Tami Rose, Pam "The Chick" Lewis, Stephen Tolman, Dale Pierce, Lee Sartin, Sandy Brooks, Stephanie C. Brown, Dan Heins, Scott Stem, Englands, David McVay, Steve Morley, Rusty Jones , Brian Petree, Joe Harris, Jim Rooney, Mike Chapman , Neil Thrasher, Steven King, Buddy Mondlock (vocals); Chris Leuzinger (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Johnny Christopher, Mark Casstevens (acoustic guitar); Steve McClure (electric guitar, steel guitar); Kristin Wilkson, Dennis Molchan, John Borg, Kristin Wilkinson, The Nashville String Machine, George Binkley III, Mark Tanner, Carl Gorodetzky, Pamela Sixfin, Lee Larrison, Gary VanOsdale, Charles Cochran (strings); Edgar Meyer (upright bass); Mike Palmer (drums, percussion); Milton Sledge (drums); Wendy Suits Johnson (background vocals).Audio Mixer: Mark Miller .Recording information: Jack's Tracks Recording Studio, Nashville, TN.Photographer: Beverly Parker.Arranger: Charles Cochran.The Bruce Springsteen of Nashville. A country purist's nightmare. The savior of modern country. Brooks wears many hats (all of them cowboy), but as his legions of fans will tell you without provocation, he turned the '90s country music industry around, damn near single-handed. His mixture of honky-tonk, rock & roll and radio-friendly power balladry struck a chord with middle America, and earned him the contemporary country crown. NO FENCES is seminal Garth, the perfect place to start for a novice, and an indispensable item for any Brooks fan. It features both Brooks' thoughtful side (the intelligently-crafted cheating song "The Thunder Rolls) and his rocking, celebratory side (the proudly proletariat "Friends In Low Places," which would do Hank Jr. proud).

Personnel includes: Garth Brooks (vocals); Mark Casstevens, Leigh Reynolds (acoustic guitar); Chris Leuzinger, Gordon Kennedy (electric guitar); Bruce Bouton (steel guitar); Rob Hajacos, Jimmy Mattingly (fiddle); Ed Foote (hurdygurdy); Bobby Wood (piano, organ, keyboards); Mike Chapman (bass); Milton Sledge (drums, percussion); Sam Bacco (percussion); Trisha Yearwood, Susan Ashton (background vocals).Recorded at Jack's Recording Studio, Nashville, Tennessee.Personnel: Garth Brooks (vocals); Susan Ashton, Trisha Yearwood (vocals); Leigh Reynolds, Mark Casstevens (acoustic guitar); Chris Leuzinger, Gordon Kennedy (electric guitar); Bruce Bouton (steel guitar); Ed Foote (hurdy-gurdy); Rob Hajacos, Jimmy Mattingly (fiddle); Connie Ellisor, John Catchings, Kristin Wilkinson, The Nashville String Machine, Jim Grosjean, Robert Mason , Mary Kathryn Van Osdale, Carl Gorodetzky, Pamela Sixfin, David Davidson , Lee Larrison, Alan Umstead, David Angell, Catherine Umstead (strings); Bobby Wood (keyboards); Milton Sledge (drums, percussion); Sam Bacco (percussion).Recording information: Jack's Tracks Recording Studio, Nashville, TN.Photographer: Beverly Parker.Loaded with the populist and humanist touches that differentiate his brand of modern country from that of the Nashville boy-crooners riding his coat-tails, FRESH HORSES continues Garth Brooks' streak of exciting, fresh-faced albums. It's not just that the Oklahoma-born singer has created a platform that offers something for every country music connoisseur--the instrumentation and song structures nod toward the traditional, the booming sound hints at southern fried and arena-rock, the lyrical stance is as progressive as Music City gets--but the fact that Brooks clearly reaches out to each of these constituencies, and is quite natural doing it.Among Garth's contributions to country has been the infusion of that old-time rock and roll spirit to Nashville's age-old conventions. On FRESH HORSES, Brooks once again drinks from that fruitful well with memorable results. "The Old Stuff" is a reminiscence about life on the road "back when the old stuff was new," and gives guitarists Chris Leuzinger and Gordon Kennedy some space to do a Silver Bullet Band-styled battle with Bobby Wood's keyboard; "The Fever" updates an old Aerosmith thrasher for the rodeo set; and "Rollin'," a portrait of a female trucker's life on the road, is a hard-driving piece of honky-tonk with a vocal that's pure Elvis.That woman behind the wheel brings up another point that separates Brooks and FRESH HORSES from country's other hunk-alikes: the strength of his female characters. The fate-bitten, single mother nurturingly caring for her offspring ("That Ol' Wind"), the wife drifting into the sunset after the sudden demise of her one true love ("The Beaches Of Cheyenne") and the trucker choosing her own path rather than letting her man do it for her ("Rollin'") leap above easy cliches, and embody the respect Brooks approaches the so-called fairer sex with. This makes him not only a talented country star, but one who's easy to admire.

Editorial Reviews
8 - Very Good - ...Brooks looks back to [the '70s] generation, to James Taylor...Kiss, Aerosmith, and Billy Joel...all not so much naive entertainers as exaggerated Everymen. But Brooks encompasses more Every- than any of them....To really hear him, you have to commit....You've got to throw yourself into the wind pouring out of Garth's upraised lungs. Elvis wouldn't have asked any less...
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