Product Description

No Fences captures Garth Brooks just after his initial success yet before superstardom. Though it includes "The Thunder Rolls," another of the pop-country power ballads he'd introduced with "The Dance," No Fences bounces mainly between impersonations--often catchy and engaging ones, but impersonations nonetheless. "Wild Horses" is straight-up George Strait, while "Two of a Kind" and "Friends in Low Places" are John Anderson and Hank Jr. respectively. The best moment, the Dan Fogleberg-like "Unanswered Prayers," relays a message either highly spiritual or hugely rationalized. Regardless, it succeeds because its delivery is earnest, sweet, and humble--something Garth wouldn't be for long. --David Cantwell Track Listings 1. The Thunder Rolls 2. New Way to Fly 3. Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House 4. Victim of the Game 5. Friends in Low Places 6. This Ain't Tennessee 7. Wild Horses 8. Unanswered Prayers 9. Same Old Story 10. Mr. Blue 11. Wolves

Track Listing

1. Thunder Rolls
2. New Way to Fly
3. Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House
4. Victim of the Game
5. Friends in Low Places
6. This Ain't Tennessee
7. Wild Horses
8. Unanswered Prayers
9. Same Old Story
10. Mr. Blue
11. Wolves

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4153 in Music
• Published on: 2005
• Released on: 2007-08-21
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered

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No Fences captures Garth Brooks just after his initial success yet before superstardom. Though it includes "The Thunder Rolls," another of the pop-country power ballads he'd introduced with "The Dance," No Fences bounces mainly between impersonations--often catchy and engaging ones, but impersonations nonetheless. "Wild Horses" is straight-up George Strait, while "Two of a Kind" and "Friends in Low Places" are John Anderson and Hank Jr. respectively. The best moment, the Dan Fogleberg-like "Unanswered Prayers," relays a message either highly spiritual or hugely rationalized. Regardless, it succeeds because its delivery is earnest, sweet, and humble--something Garth wouldn't be for long. --David Cantwell

Customer Reviews

Garth's best, a very good country album....
This is the only Garth Brooks still in my collection, and it's still pretty good and quite listenable. Garth is no Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, or Merle Haggard, but on this album, he manages to make a very good country album. Most modern country stars are slick and over packaged, but Garth never felt like that. One of my favorite songs on this album is New Way to Fly. It's one of Garth's most beautiful, moving songs (he also co-wrote it), and that song has the soul and depth that old country music always seems to find. As for the other songs, if you're not singing along to Friends in Low Places, you're an uptight sod. The song Unanswered Prayers is actually pretty good. Its lyric and message is quite moving. How many us have been p**sed at God for not answering our prayers, then years later thanking him for not having us go down that path? The song isn't Ecclesiastes or anything, but it's got a good message to it, which I dig. The Thunder Rolls bores me, though, despite being about an important subject. The song sounds too rock and roll to me, surprisingly.

Overall, this is probably the only Garth album that you really need if you're a casual fan.

Garth
I am not a really big Garth Brooks fan, but the one song. "unanswered Prayer" is worth the whole CD.

Garth Brooks Fan
I got this CD out and played it and really like it again I like the song Unanswered prayers