Garth Brooks
Album Review
With Ropin' The Wind, Garth Brooks begins to make his '70s rock influences more explicit. Naturally, that is most notable in his reworking of Billy Joel's "Shameless," which he transforms from a rock power ballad into contemporary country. But that influence is also evident on ambitious epics like "The River" and even the honky tonk ravers of "Papa Loved Mama" and "Rodeo." Some might say that those rock influences are what make Brooks a crossover success, but he wouldn't be nearly as successful if he didn't have a tangible country foundation to his music -- even when he comes close to standard arena rock bombast, there are gritty steel guitars or vocal inflections that prove he is trying to expand country's vocabulary, not trying to exploit it. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
Ropin' the Wind
Album Release Date: September 10, 1991
Genres: CTRY
Track List:
- Against the Grain
- Rodeo
- What She's Doing Now
- Burning Bridges
- Papa Loved Mama
- Shameless
- Cold Shoulder
- We Bury the Hatchet
- In Lonesome Dove
- The River
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