Artist Garth Brooks Label Pearl Records | Release date 28 November 2013 Genre Country pop | |
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Released November 28, 2013 (2013-11-28) Producer Steve Buckingham
Mark Miller
Allen Reynolds Blame It All on My Roots Five Decades of Influences
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(2014) Nominations Billboard Music Award for Top Country Album Similar Garth Brooks albums, Country pop albums, Other albums | ||
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Blame it All on My Roots: Five Decades of Influences is a compilation box set released by Garth Brooks in November 2013. The set, sold exclusively through Walmart and Sam's Club stores, includes 77 songs on six compact discs plus 33 music videos and a full-length live performance from the Garth at Wynn residency show in Las Vegas on two DVDs. Four of the CDs are new studio albums composed entirely of cover songs. The remaining two CDs in the set are a reissue of The Ultimate Hits.
Contents
Content
Loosely modeled from the set list of his residency show, Garth at Wynn, the albums feature songs Brooks attributes to the development of his unique country pop genre. They were produced by Mark Miller, with additional production from Steve Buckingham on "Shout." Allen Reynolds produced The Ultimate Hits.
Commercial success
The album reached number 1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart and, as of September 10, 2014, has sold 893,000 copies in the United States. The RIAA lists individual Platinum certifications for the compilation with Country Classics, listed as Country Hits in the RIAA database, Classic Rock, The Melting Pot and Blue-Eyed Soul.
Personnel
Songs
1Ain't Goin' Down ('til the Sun Comes Up)4:34
2Friends in Low Places4:20
3Shameless4:19