In Pieces

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In Pieces
Studio album by Garth Brooks
Released	August 31, 1993
Recorded	Jack's Track's Recording Studio
Genre	Country
Label	Capitol Nashville
Professional reviews
All Music Guide: link Entertainment Weekly: (C+) link
Garth Brooks chronology
The Chase (1992) In Pieces (1993) The Garth Brooks Collection (1994)

For the Linkin Park song, see Minutes to Midnight.

In Pieces is American Country Music artist Garth Brooks' fifth studio album (sixth overall). It was released on Tuesday, August 31, 1993. The album sold eight million copies in the U.S through 2006. It reached #1 on the Billboard Country music charts and #1 on the Billboard's Pop Albums chart. It was also a huge hit outside the United States. In the Great Britain it was Brooks' highest placed album on the charts. It reached the top ten of the country album charts before it was issued officially (due to imports from both the United States and Ireland). Critics felt that this would ruin the album's sales once it was issued. However, when it was eventually issued in Britain in early 2004 it went to #1 on the country charts and reached #2 in the pop charts and also produced two top 40 hit singles on the British pop charts. Brooks had this to say regarding the album:

"In Pieces was just time to smile. It was time to laugh, it was time to get loud. It's definitely the most live album that we've ever cut. I think the band went to a different level on this. They seemed to play more like a band that had been together for years than studio musicians that come together and play at time to time.

So this one is all there for me. I like to listen to it loud, and I just love the stuff like Baton Rouge and Ain't Going Down Til The Sun Comes Up. From One Night A Day, all the way to the very last song, The Cowboy Song, which is definitely my favorite off In Pieces and it will stand up with anything that I have cut over the past five years.

Like the other things, I'm very proud of this one and I hope you like it."

[edit] Track listing

1. "Standing Outside the Fire" (Jenny Yates, Garth Brooks) – 3:52
2. "The Night I Called the Old Man Out" (Pat Alger, Kim Williams, Brooks) – 3:12
3. "American Honky-Tonk Bar Association" (Bryan Kennedy, Jim Rushing) – 3:33
4. "One Night A Day" (Gary Burr, Pete Wasner) – 4:15
5. "Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)" (Kent Blazy, Williams, Brooks) – 4:33
6. "Kickin' and Screamin'" (Tony Arata) – 4:02
7. "The Red Strokes" (James Garver, Lisa Sanderson, Yates, Brooks) – 3:44
8. "Callin' Baton Rouge" (Dennis Linde) – 2:38
9. "The Night Will Only Know" (Stephanie Davis, Yates, Brooks) – 3:55
10. "The Cowboy Song" (Roy Robinson) – 3:59

[edit] "The Red Strokes" video

To shoot the video it took 5,000 gallons of paint and they went through 12 white Stetson cowboy hats, 18 full tuxedos and 6 baby grand pianos.

A clip from behind the scenes even says that the first take of lowering Garth into the paint went very wrong and he was very thankful. The paint was too thick and the lowering device became jammed. This was bad as the paint was also cold and Garth’s body temperature was dropping fast. With thinner and warmer paint, the second take was perfect.

[edit] Chart positions

[edit] Singles

[edit] Album

[edit] Personnel

• Chris Leuzinger (acoustic & electric guitars)
• Ty England (acoustic guitar, background vocals)
• Mark Casstevens (acoustic guitar)
• Steve McClure (electric & steel guitars)
• Bruce Bouton (steel guitar)
• Jerry Douglas (dobro)
• Rob Hajacos (fiddle)
• Terry McMillan (harmonica)
• Jim Horn (saxophone)
• Bobby Wood (piano, keyboards)
• Bobby Emmons (Hammond B-3 organ)
• Mike Chapman, Roy Huskey, Jr. (bass)
• Milton Sledge, Mike Palmer (drums, percussion)
• Ferrell Morris, Sam Bacco (percussion)
• Helen Darling, Kathy Chiavola, Trisha Yearwood (background vocals).
• New Grass Revival: Pat Flynn (acoustic guitar)
• Bela Fleck (banjo)
• Sam Bush (mandolin, fiddle, background vocals)
• John Cowan (background vocals)
• Digitally remastered by Denny Purcell (Georgetown Masters, Nashville, Tennessee).

[edit] References and External Links

• In Pieces at planetgarth.com