The Ultimate Hits

Performer: Garth Brooks
Engineer: Richard Aspinwall; Duke Duczer; Terry Palmer; John Kelton; Matt Allen
Producer: Allen Reynolds
Distributor: (Independently by Label)

Notes: Personnel: Garth Brooks (acoustic guitar); Gordon Kennedy (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Johnny Christopher, Mark Casstevens, Pat Alger, Pat Flynn, Shawn Camp, Steve Wariner, Wayne Kirkpatrick (acoustic guitar); Chris Leuzinger (electric guitar); Bruce Bouton (steel guitar); Jerry Douglas (dobro); Bela Fleck (banjo); Sam Bush (mandolin, fiddle); Rob Hjacos, Jimmy Mattingly (fiddle); Nashville String Machine (strings); Huey Lewis, Terry McMillan (harmonica); Joey Miskulin (accordion); Blair Masters, Bobby Wood (keyboards); Edgar Meyer (acoustic bass); Jimmie Lee Sloas, Mike Chapman (bass guitar); Ferrell Morris, Kenny Malone, Sam Bacco, Milton Sledge (drums, percussion). For a period in the early 1990s, Garth Brooks was not only the biggest star in country music, he was one of the biggest stars in music, period. An unassuming Oklahoman who fused the blue-collar ethic of new traditionalist country with an unapologetic pop side that drew on his love of 1970s rockers like Kiss and Billy Joel, Garth Brooks fundamentally changed the sound of mainstream country music in much the same way that Hank Williams had in the 1940s and Patsy Cline had in the 1950s. THE ULTIMATE HITS, a three-disc collection that is the first comprehensive career overview for Brooks, contains all of his most beloved songs in remastered sound, plus four brand-new songs and a bonus DVD containing all of Brooks's music videos.

Garth Brooks catapulted to superstardom in the early 1990s, in part by bringing pop production values to country and creating a spectacular pyrotechnic stage show. Peel away the glitz and thunder, however, and what lies beneath is a gifted singer-songwriter in the classic tradition, one equally at home with country sentiment and rock bravura. When this Springsteen-in-a-cowboy-hat grew tired of country's constraints, he created an alter ego, Chris Gaines, in order to record more straightforward pop/rock.

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