Sevens

Garth Brooks | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Label: BMG DIRECT
• ASIN: B002JW69C0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (68 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #201,002 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Track Listings 1. Longneck Bottle 2. How You Ever Gonna Know 3. She's Gonna Make It 4. I Don't Have to Wonder 5. Two Piña Coladas 6. Cowboy Cadillac 7. Fit for a King 8. Do What You Gotta Do 9. You Move Me 10. In Another's Eyes 11. When There's No One Around 12. A Friend to Me 13. Take the Keys to My Heart 14. Belleau Wood

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Sound - Good Album, July 23, 2000

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Chad Spivak (North Miami Beach, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sevens (Audio CD)

I am usually not a fan of country music, but I decided to buy this cd the week Garth Brooks said he would donate all proceeds to Oprah's "Make a Wish" Foundation. Well, was I ever pleasantly suprised.

Sevens is one really good album. The songs have a smooth country feel with some rock characteristics mixed in as well. "Two Pina Coladas" and "Lockneck Bottle" are propably the two most well known singles, but others like "She's Gonna Make It" and "Fit For a King" are well done also. "In Another's Eyes" is a wonderful duet with Trisha Yearwood, and it has an incredible sound. I suppose that is what happens when you put two leading country voices together. Anyway, it is a thrilling song and a real pleasure to listen to.

All in all, this is a really nice sounding album, chock full top notch songs. This is easily one of Garth Brooks' best efforts. You will enjoy this cd.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great collection of songs!, January 15, 2001

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Sorrel - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sevens (Audio CD)

Before I bought this CD I only had one other Garth CD (double live). But after I saw him sing Belleau Wood on his Christmas special, I just had to get whatever CD it was on.

Ater listening to that song a few million times, I decided to listen to the rest of the songs, and WOW are they ever great.!

There are some fast, fun songs like Cowboy Cadillac, Longneck Bottle. Some slower songs that make you think like I Don't Have to Wonder, A Friend to Me. And then there are some songs with messages How you Ever Gonna Know, Do What You Gotta do. And of course, Belleau Wood, what an incredible song, even people who have told me that they hate country music can't find anything bad to say about this song.

Overall, this would be a excellent CD to add to any collection, if you have some other Garth music, be sure to get this CD, I'm sure everyone will find something on it that they can relate to.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Garth's best album since "No Fences", February 26, 2002

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Ken "KC Music Fan" (Olathe, KS, U.S.A.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sevens (Audio CD)

Garth Brooks' album Sevens is his best album since No Fences. Unlike the singles off some of Garth's previous records, where at least one was a throwaway song, every song on Sevens that became a single is great. "In Another's Eyes", Garth's duet with his long-time friend Trisha Yearwood, is the highlight. The country swing song "Longneck Bottle" is a toe-tapper that features some fine lead guitar work by its writer, Steve Wariner. "Two Pina Coladas" is a Caribbean-flavored song that, like "Longneck Bottle", has some great lead guitar work in it. The last of the big hits from Sevens, "You Move Me", is an uplifting song with some good background vocals by Susan Ashton.

There are other great moments as well--for instance, the driving song "Do What You Gotta Do", featuring the musicians of New Grass Revival; Carl Jackson's bluegrass-sounding waltz "Fit For A King"; the wartime ballad "Belleau Wood"; and the song "I Don't Have To Wonder", about coming to terms with the end of a relationship. In "I Don't Have To Wonder", the man's taking his girlfriend's ring from his pocket, "letting it fly", and watching it sink into the ocean is a vivid picture of the finality of a breakup, although Garth himself didn't write the song. Indeed, of the 14 songs on Sevens, Garth wrote only six of them. Although I think Garth is a skillful songwriter when he's at his best, I believe that on Sevens, Garth's willingness not only to use other writers' songs but to look for them is a sign that he knew what he was doing. Garth and his producer, Allen Reynolds, deserve a big hand for their song selection here.

To sum up, Sevens is one record that has "Great" written all over it.