No Fences

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No Fences
Studio album by Garth Brooks
Released	August 27, 1990
Recorded	Jack's Tracks Recording Studio
Genre	Country
Length	33:29
Label	Capitol Nashville
Producer	Allen Reynolds
Professional reviews
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Garth Brooks chronology
Garth Brooks (1989) No Fences (1990) Ropin' the Wind (1991)

No Fences was released on August 27, 1990, and is American country music artist Garth Brooks' second album. It reached #1 on the Billboard country music charts and #3 on Billboard's pop chart, and is Brooks' best-selling album to date, with global sales of over 20 million copies (approximately 16 million in the U.S. through 2006.) This is the album that made him an international star and was his first album issued in Great Britain (the original release in that country contained four bonus tracks, the singles from his previous U.S debut).

Brooks commented on the album, saying:

"No Fences definitely, hands down would be the people's favorite album that we have done so far. It's by far our biggest selling album. With songs like Friends In Low Places, Two Of A Kind, Unanswered Prayers, and especially The Thunder Rolls with all the attention it got with the video situation that it went through. It's probably not surprising that this is the biggest selling album of our collection. The number that we have sold surprises me to death, and this is a good time for me to say thanks to those people who have it.

To those people who might be thinking about getting Fences, if you do, I hope that you don't feel like you've been let down. It's an album that I stand by, I'm very proud of. An album that I pull out from time to time and listen and hold my head up and say, yeah I'll still stand by it."

Some of Brooks most famous songs appear on No Fences, including: "The Thunder Rolls" (CMA's 1991 Video of the Year), "Friends in Low Places" (Academy of Country Music's 1990 Single of the Year), "Unanswered Prayers" and "Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House". A cover version of The Fleetwoods' "Mr. Blue" appears on the album. The album itself was named Album of the Year by the ACM in 1990. It reached Number 1 on the British country music charts (earning Brooks his first gold album in that country) and remained charted for over five years.

[edit] Track listing

1. "The Thunder Rolls" (Pat Alger, Garth Brooks) – 3:42
2. "New Way to Fly" (Kim Williams, Brooks) – 3:54
3. "Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House" (Bobby Boyd, Warren Dale Haynes, Dennis Robbins) – 2:31
4. "Victim of the Game" (Mark Sanders, Brooks) – 3:06
5. "Friends in Low Places" (DeWayne Blackwell, Earl "Bud" Lee) – 4:18
6. "Wild Horses" (Bill Shore, David Wills) – 3:08
7. "Unanswered Prayers" (Alger, Larry Bastian, Brooks) – 3:23
8. "Same Old Story" (Tony Arata) – 2:52
9. "Mr. Blue" (Blackwell) – 3:16
10. "Wolves" (Stephanie Davis) – 4:08

[edit] Chart singles

[edit] Personnel

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• Garth Brooks - guitar, vocals
• Chris Leuzinger - guitar
• Pat Alger - guitar, background vocals
• Johnny Christopher - guitar
• Mark Casstevens - guitar
• Bruce Bouton - steel guitar, background vocals
• Rob Hajacos - fiddle, background vocals
• Bobby Wood - piano, keyboard, background vocals
• Edgar Meyer - acoustic bass
• Milton Sledge - drums, acoustic bass
• Mike Chapman - acoustic bass, background vocals
• Virginia Team - Art Direction
• Mike Palmer - Drums, Percussion
• Denny Purcell - Mastering
• Mary Beth Felts - Make-Up
• Dave Gant - Vocals, Keyboards, Fiddle
• Steve McClure - Guitar (Electric), Guitar (Steel)
• Beverly Parker - Photography
• Jerry Joyner - Design
• Mark Miller - Mixing, Engineer
• Dan Heins - Vocals, Audio Engineer
• Ty England - Vocals, Guitar (Acoustic)
• Brian Petree - Vocals, Stage Manager
• James Garver - Guitar, Fiddle, Vocals
• Others on background vocals - Trisha Yearwood, Wendy Johnson, Jennifer O'Brien, Hurshel Wiginton, Curtis Young, DeWayne Blackwell, Tim Bowers, Sandy Brooks, Jimm Rooney, Stephanie C. Brown, Tami Rose, The Englands "plus one", Neil Thrasher, Pam "The Chick" Lewis, Buddy Mondlock, Earl "Bud" Lee, Rusty Jones, Joe Harris, Lee Sartin, Scott Stem, Dale Pierce, Steven King, Stephen Tolman, Al "Shaggy" Barclay, Curry Worsham, David McVay, Steve Morley
• Nashville String Machine - strings

[edit] References and external links

• No Fences at planetgarth.com
• No Fences at countrymusic.about.com