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''In Pieces'' is the fifth studio album by American
country music
Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...
artist
Garth Brooks
Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962) is an American country music singer and songwriter. His integration of pop and rock elements into the country genre has earned him popularity, particularly in the United States with success on the co ...
. It was released on August 31, 1993, by
Liberty Records
Liberty Records was a record label founded in the United States by chairman Simon Waronker in 1955 with Al Bennett as president and Theodore Keep as chief engineer. It was reactivated in 2001 in the United Kingdom and had two previous revival ...
. It debuted at #1 on the
''Billboard'' 200 and the
Top Country Albums
Top Country Albums is a chart published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine in the United States. The 50-position chart lists the most popular country music albums in the country, calculated weekly by Broadcast Data Systems based on physical sales a ...
chart.
The album was likewise a hit outside the United States. In the United Kingdom, it was Brooks' highest-placed album on the charts. It reached the top ten of the UK country album charts before it was issued officially (due to imports from both the
United States
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and
Ireland
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). Critics felt that this would ruin the album's sales once it was issued. However, when it was eventually issued in Britain in early 1994 it went to #1 on the country charts and reached #2 in the pop charts, and also produced two top-forty hit singles on the British pop charts.
The track "Callin' Baton Rouge" was previously a #37 peaking single in 1987 for the
New Grass Revival
New Grass Revival was an American progressive bluegrass band founded in 1971, and composed of Sam Bush, Courtney Johnson, Ebo Walker, Curtis Burch, Butch Robins, John Cowan, Béla Fleck and Pat Flynn. They were active between 1971 and 1989, r ...
, whose members back Brooks on his rendition. It was the first time the group had recorded together since they disbanded in 1989.
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Radio DJ Richard Wooton, Brooks stated that the track "The Cowboy Song" (which was written in 1987 by Roy Robinson) was found in a trash can by someone on his team who liked the song and played the track to him.
Background
Brooks commented on the album saying:
Track listing
The track ordering has varied on different releases of this album.
Original release
Limited series
#"Standing Outside the Fire"
#"The Night I Called the Old Man Out"
#"American Honky-Tonk Bar Association"
#"One Night a Day"
#"Kickin' and Screamin'"
#"Anonymous" (Tony Arata, Jon Schwabe) – 2:55
#"Ain't Going Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)"
#"The Red Strokes"
#"Callin' Baton Rouge"
#"The Night Will Only Know"
#"The Cowboy Song"
''The Remastered'' series
#"Standing Outside the Fire"
#"The Night I Called the Old Man Out"
#"American Honky-Tonk Bar Association"
#"One Night a Day"
#"Ain't Going Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)"
#"Anonymous"
#"Kickin' and Screamin'"
#"The Red Strokes"
#"Callin' Baton Rouge"
#"The Night Will Only Know"
#"The Cowboy Song"
Personnel
*Sam Bacco – percussion on "Standing Outside The Fire"
*
Bruce Bouton
Bruce Bouton is an American guitarist, session musician, producer, and songwriter. His pedal steel guitar has been featured on many country music recordings, and he helped reintroduce the pedal steel guitar to the forefront of the Nashville sound ...
–
pedal steel guitar
The pedal steel guitar is a Console steel guitar, console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied and complex music than any previous steel guitar design. Like all s ...
on "The Night I Called The Old Man Out" and "American Honky-Tonk Bar Association";
resonator guitar
A resonator guitar or resophonic guitar is an acoustic guitar that produces sound by conducting string vibrations through the bridge to one or more spun metal cones (resonators), instead of to the guitar's sounding board (top). Resonator gui ...
on "The Cowboy Song"
*
Garth Brooks
Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962) is an American country music singer and songwriter. His integration of pop and rock elements into the country genre has earned him popularity, particularly in the United States with success on the co ...
– vocals, acoustic guitar
*
Sam Bush
Charles Samuel Bush (born April 13, 1952) is an American mandolinist who is considered an originator of progressive bluegrass music. In 2020, he was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame as a member of New Grass Revival.
...
–
mandolin
A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...
on "Standing Outside The Fire", "Callin' Baton Rouge" and "The Cowboy Song"; fiddle and backing vocals on "Callin' Baton Rouge"
*Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar
*Mike Chapman – bass guitar
*Kathy Chiavola – backing vocals
*
John Cowan – backing vocals on "Callin' Baton Rouge"
*
Helen Darling
Helen Marie Darling (born August 29, 1978) is an American former professional basketball player, who played most recently for the San Antonio Silver Stars of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
In her WNBA career, Darling has m ...
– harmony and backing vocals
*
Jerry Douglas
Gerald Calvin "Jerry" Douglas (born May 28, 1956) is an American Dobro and lap steel guitar player and record producer.
Career
In addition to his fourteen solo recordings, Douglas has played on more than 1,600 albums. As a sideman, he has ...
– resonator guitar on "The Red Strokes", "Callin' Baton Rouge" and "The Cowboy Song"
*
Bobby Emmons –
Hammond organ
The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated s ...
on "One Night a Day"
*
Ty England
Gary Tyrone England (born December 5, 1963) is an American country music singer and guitarist. Initially a member of Garth Brooks' band, England began his solo career in 1995, recording a self-titled debut album on RCA Records Nashville, RCA Na ...
– acoustic guitar, harmony and backing vocals on "Anonymous"
*
Béla Fleck
Béla Anton Leoš Fleck (born July 10, 1958) is an American banjo player. An acclaimed virtuoso, he is an innovative and technically proficient pioneer and ambassador of the banjo, bringing the instrument from its bluegrass roots to jazz, classi ...
–
banjo
The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...
on "Callin' Baton Rouge"
*
Pat Flynn – acoustic guitar on "Callin' Baton Rouge"
*Rob Hajacos – fiddle on "Standing Outside The Fire", "The Night I Called The Old Man Out", "American Honky-Tonk Bar Association", "Ain't Going Down (Til The Sun Comes Up)" and "The Cowboy Song"
*
Jim Horn
James Ronald Horn (born November 20, 1940) is an American saxophonist, woodwind player, and session musician.
Biography
Horn was born in Los Angeles, and after replacing saxophonist Steve Douglas in 1959, he toured with member Duane Eddy for f ...
– saxophone on "One Night a Day"
*
Roy Huskey Jr.
Roy Milton Huskey (December 17, 1956 – September 6, 1997) was a prominent American upright bass player in country music from Nashville, Tennessee. Huskey performed alongside musicians such as Chet Atkins, Garth Brooks, Johnny Cash, Vince ...
– double bass on "The Cowboy Song"
*Chris Leuzinger – acoustic and electric guitars
*Steve McClure – electric and pedal steel guitars on "Anonymous"
*
Terry McMillan
Terry McMillan (born October 18, 1951) is an American novelist. Her work centers around the experiences of Black women in the United States.
Early life
McMillan was born in Port Huron, Michigan. She received a B.A. in journalism in 1977 from ...
– harmonica on "Ain't Goin' Down Til the Sun Comes Up"
*Farrell Morris – percussion on "Standing Outside The Fire"
*Mike Palmer – drums and percussion on "Anonymous"
*Milton Sledge – drums; percussion on "Standing Outside The Fire" and "The Night I Called The Old Man Out"
*
Bobby Wood
Bobby Shou Wood (born November 15, 1992) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a striker for Major League Soccer club New England Revolution.
Youth and early career
Wood was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to a mother with partial ...
– keyboards
*
Trisha Yearwood
Patricia Lynn Yearwood (born September 19, 1964) is an American singer, actress, author and television personality. She rose to fame with her 1991 debut single " She's in Love with the Boy," which became a number one hit on the ''Billboard'' c ...
– harmony and backing vocals
Charts
''In Pieces'' debuted at #1 on the U.S.
''Billboard'' 200, becoming his third, and #1 on the
Top Country Albums
Top Country Albums is a chart published weekly by '' Billboard'' magazine in the United States. The 50-position chart lists the most popular country music albums in the country, calculated weekly by Broadcast Data Systems based on physical sales a ...
, becoming his fourth #1 Country album. In August 2020, ''In Pieces'' was certified Diamond by the
RIAA
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.
Weekly charts
Singles
Year-end charts
Decade-end charts
Certifications and sales
References
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1993 albums
Garth Brooks albums
Liberty Records albums
Albums produced by Allen Reynolds
Canadian Country Music Association Top Selling Album albums