Track Listing

1. Longneck Bottle
2. How You Ever Gonna Know
3. She's Gonna Make It
4. I Don't Have to Wonder
5. Two Piña Coladas - Garth Brooks, Shawn Camp, Mark Casstevens, Mike Chapman, Chris Leuzinger, , Milton Sledge, Bobby Wood
6. Cowboy Cadillac
7. Fit for a King - Garth Brooks, Kevin Grant, Garth Brooks, Randy Hardison, Randy Howard, Carl Jackson, Chris Leuzinger, , Catherine Styron, Bobby Wood
8. Do What You Gotta Do
9. You Move Me - Sam Bacco, Bruce Bouton, Garth Brooks, Mark Casstevens, Mike Chapman, Chris Leuzinger, Milton Sledge, Steve Wariner, Bobby Wood
10. In Another's Eyes - Bruce Bouton, Garth Brooks, Mark Casstevens, Mike Chapman, Chris Leuzinger, , Milton Sledge, Steve Wariner, Bobby Wood, Trisha Yearwood
11. When There's No One Around - Bruce Bouton, Garth Brooks, Sam Bush, Mark Casstevens, Mike Chapman, Chris Leuzinger, Milton Sledge, Steve Wariner, Bobby Wood
12. Friend to Me - Bruce Bouton, Garth Brooks, Mark Casstevens, Mike Chapman, Chris Leuzinger, , Milton Sledge, Steve Wariner, Bobby Wood
13. Take the Keys to My Heart
14. Belleau Wood - Sam Bacco, Garth Brooks, Mark Casstevens, Mike Chapman, Chris Leuzinger, Edgar Meyer, Milton Sledge, Bobby Wood

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #119499 in Music
• Released on: 2007-08-21
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
Garth's best album in years is also--no coincidence-- his most country record since his debut. The opening "Longneck Bottle," in fact, may be the most country single he's ever recorded, a swingy ode to the temptations of tall cold ones, all to the soundtrack of a steel guitar. Nothing else here is as strong, but the pathetic characters in weepers like "She's Gonna Make It" and "I Don't Have to Wonder" come plenty close. Moreover, "Belleau Woods," a lovely Christmas ballad with a World War II setting, puts Garth's patented earnestness to good use. --David Cantwell

Album Description
One artist...one decade...one hundred million albums sold! Garth Brooks remains the biggest Country artist of all-time. He harnessed the Country and Pop influences of has past and created a new kind of Country that appealed to different generations of fans and crossed over into the Pop market like no other artist before him. Garth Brooks changed the rules based on his talent alone. He became a worldwide superstar while remaining true to his humble roots, which added to his appeal. This is his 1997 album and features 'Longneck Bottle', 'She's Gonna Make It' and 'Take The Keys To My Heart'. Pearl.

Customer Reviews

Lots of good, a little ok
There are of course some amazing classics on this album, "Longneck Bottle" and "Two Pina Coladas" to name a couple. I was also pleasantly surprised by "You move me", "She's gonna make it" and "Belleau Wood".

But there were a couple songs that show Garth was definitely getting towards that experimental time in his career that it seems everyone has to go through. "Fit for a King" and "When there's no one around" were fun, but kinda weird. Couldn't really get my head around them.

Even with the CD equivalent of these crazy Side B songs, the CD was totally worth it. Perhaps I'm a little Garth crazy, but I can start on "Garth Brooks" by Garth Brooks and go straight through 7 more albums of his.

Pretty Good Garth
This is not my favorite Garth album but it is still pretty good. Nothing Garth does (in the country music world, that is) is ever really bad. Some of the songs are a bit cheesy but some are really good. My favorite is "Belleau Wood", and as a history major I appreciate the significance of it. But would someone please tell David Cantwell (Amazon reviewer) and all the other websites that copied and pasted his review that the Battle of Belleau Wood/The Christmas Truce of Belleau Wood happened in the FIRST World War, not the second. It was a real standout moment in the War and this song does a lot to commemorate it.

Another bold and outstanding Garth album.
Even though, some argue that Sevens didin't reflect much of Garth's personality, This is another Garth Album with very bold songs, in my opinion. Like The Chase, which was said to have been his most bold album with his most serious songs. I believe this album is the same idea, only maybe even more bold with some of the most powerful and inspirational songs. Garth said himself that this was a very personal album. Here are some of my favorites. How You Ever Gonna Know, a purely inspirational song to motivate yourself to have courage and go out and try something new, even if it is really risky and uncomfortable, because if you never try, you'll never know how it feels to do something like flying. Fit For a King, one of Garth's most powerful and bold songs, about a homeless preacher, who despite haing no home, his appearance and his weak condition, he bleives and preaches that his torn rags will be fit for a king someday in heaven. My favorite is Do What You Gotta Do, it doesn't motivate you to try something scary like How You Ever Gonna Know, it keeps you moving on in your hardest times of life, and tells you that you have the truth in life and you can't let anything anyone says get to you, if you wanna be a hero or make a diference, and that you have the power in yourself to make it through life and reach your dreams. It has some echos of Standing Outside The Fire, with fire being used as a metaphor for standing for what you beleive in. There's the duet with Shania Twain, In Another's Eyes, When There's No One Aroud, a beautiful song about his imaginary friends and self-images, and his imagination in the middle of the night when he's alone. A Friend to me, another good song, either about a friend he had growing up, or about his wife, I'm not sure. The last is Belleau Wood, a Christmas Ballad, set in Germany during World War II, a song aobut tolerance, where he says that heaven isn't beyond the clouds, it's just beyond the fear, when he could die if he was worng. Every other song on this album I like, there's probably not any Garth song I don't like, he sings and writes songs like no other country artist.