Sevens (album)

Sevens
Studio album by Garth Brooks
Released	November 25, 1997
Genre	Country pop[1] country
Length	46:01
Label	Capitol Nashville
Producer	Allen Reynolds
Garth Brooks chronology
Fresh Horses (1995) Sevens (1997) The Limited Series (1998)
Singles from Sevens
"In Another's Eyes" Released: August 18, 1997 "Longneck Bottle" Released: November 22, 1997 "She's Gonna Make It" Released: January 15, 1998 "Two Piña Coladas" Released: March 16, 1998 "You Move Me" Released: August 24, 1998

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
Entertainment Weekly	C+[3]
Robert Christgau	B[4]
Rolling Stone	[5]

Sevens is the seventh studio album by American country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released on November 25, 1997, and debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, and on the Top Country Albums chart. The album also topped the Country album charts in Britain for several months and crossed over into the mainstream pop charts. His duet with Trisha Yearwood, "In Another's Eyes", won the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals at the Grammy Awards of 1998. Sevens was nominated for the Best Country Album Grammy the following year.

777,777 copies of Sevens were marked as First Editions. These albums have a gold seal on the CD booklet and a similar mark on the CD itself. Canadian versions of the albums have a maple leaf shaped seal on the cover. First Editions were not released outside of North America.

Background

Brooks commented on the album by saying:

"I'm proud, I'm excited, I'm nervous, and it feels good to be back in the game again. This is a very personal album. I only wrote six of the songs, but there are many that are so 'me' that people I work with every day thought I wrote them".^[6]

Track listings

1. "Longneck Bottle" (Rick Carnes, Steve Wariner) – 2:15
2. "How You Ever Gonna Know" (Kent Blazy, Garth Brooks) – 3:35
3. "She's Gonna Make It" (Blazy, Kim Williams, Brooks) – 2:45
4. "I Don't Have to Wonder" (Shawn Camp, Taylor Dunn) – 3:04*
5. "Two Piña Coladas" (Camp, Benita Hill, Sandy Manson) – 3:34
6. "Cowboy Cadillac" (Bryan Kennedy, Brooks) – 2:50
7. "Fit for a King" (Jim Rushing, Carl Jackson) – 3:58
8. "Do What You Gotta Do" (Pat Flynn) – 2:57
9. "You Move Me" (Gordon Kennedy, Pierce Pettis) – 4:34
10. "In Another's Eyes" (Bobby Wood, John Peppard, Brooks) – 3:33
    • duet with Trisha Yearwood
11. "When There's No One Around" (Tim O'Brien, Darrell Scott) – 3:33
12. "A Friend to Me" (Victoria Shaw, Brooks) – 3:05
13. "Take The Keys to My Heart" (Hill, Pam Wolfe, Tommy Smith) – 2:31
14. "Belleau Wood" (Joe Henry, Brooks) – 3:28

• A music video was made for I Don't Have to Wonder, even though it wasn't released as a single. It was directed by Jon Small and Garth Brooks.

Chart performance

Sevens debuted at #1 on the U.S. Billboard 200, becoming his fifth, and #1 on the Top Country Albums, becoming his seventh #1 Country album. In November 2006, Sevens was certified 10 x Platinum by the RIAA.

Charts Charts (1997) Peak position Australian Albums Chart[7] 20 Canadian RPM Country Albums 1 Canadian RPM Top Albums 3 Danish Albums Chart[8] 12 Dutch Albums Chart[7] 80 European Albums Chart[9] 33 German Albums Chart[10] 41 Irish Albums Chart[11] 4 Norwegian Albums Chart[7] 8 Scottish Albums Chart[12] 47 Spanish Albums Chart[13] 40 Swiss Albums Chart[7] 38 UK Albums Chart[14] 34 U.S. Billboard 200[15] 1 U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums[15] 1

Certifications Region Provider Certification Sales/Shipments Australia ARIA Platinum[16] 70,000 Canada CRIA 5 x platinum [17] 500,000 United Kingdom BPI Silver[18] 60,000 United States RIAA 10 x Platinum[19] 10,000,000

End of decade charts

Chart (1990–1999)	Position
U.S. Billboard 200[20]	42

Chart Successions

Credits

Technical

• Recorded and Mixed by Mark Miller
• Recorded at Jack's Tracks Recording Studio
• Assisted by Duke Duczer and Joe Hayden
• Strings recorded at Javelina Studios
• Mastered at Georgetown Masters by Denny Purcell
• Digital Editing by Carlos Grier

Personnel

The following credits are sourced from liner notes.^[21]

• Susan Ashton – backing vocals ("She's Gonna Make It", "You Move Me")
• Sam Bacco – percussion ("You Move Me", "Belleau Wood"), congas ("She's Gonna Make It")
• Bruce Bouton – pedal steel guitar
• Garth Brooks – lead and backing vocals
• Sam Bush – background vocals ("Do What You Gotta Do"), mandolin ("Do What You Gotta Do", "When There's No One Around")
• Shawn Camp – acoustic guitar ("Two Piña Coladas")
• Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar
• Mike Chapman – bass guitar
• John Cowan – backing vocals ("Do What You Gotta Do")
• Béla Fleck – banjo
• Pat Flynn – acoustic guitar ("Do What You Gotta Do")
• Dave Gant - keyboards, fiddle, backing vocals
• James Garver - electric guitar, percussion, backing vocals
• Kevin "Swine" Grantt – bass guitar ("Fit for a King")
• Mark Greenwood - bass guitar, backing vocals
• Rob Hajacos – fiddle
• Randy Hardison – drums ("Fit for a King")
• Lona Heid – background vocals ("Fit for a King")
• Randy Howard – fiddle ("Fit for a King")
• Carl Jackson – acoustic guitar, backing vocals ("Fit for a King")
• Chris Leuzinger – electric and classical guitars
• Steve McClure - pedal steel and electric guitars
• Jimmy Mattingly – fiddle, acoustic guitar
• Edgar Meyer – double bass ("Belleau Wood")
• Debbie Nims – acoustic guitar, mandolin, backing vocals
• Jim Ed Norman – string arrangements, conductor
• Mike Palmer - drums, percussion
• Al Perkins – Dobro ("Fit for a King")
• Milton Sledge – drums, percussion
• Catherine Styron – piano ("Fit for a King")
• Steve Wariner – acoustic guitar, backing vocals ("Longneck Bottle")
• Bobby Wood – piano, keyboard
• Trisha Yearwood – duet vocals ("In Another's Eyes")
• Nashville String Machine - strings

Crowd vocals on "Two Piña Coladas": Dorothy "The Birthday Girl" Robinson, Charles Green, Mat Lindsey, Sandy Mason, Shawn Camp, Big Al, "Double D", Sam "The Man" Duczer, Garth Brooks

References

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5. Garth Brooks (1998-01-22). "Rolling Stone review". Web.archive.org. Archived from the original on November 14, 2007. Retrieved 2013-07-08.
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8. http://top20.dk/chart/1998-4
9. "Hits of the World - Eurochart". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 20 December 1997. p. 43.
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11. "Hits of the World - Ireland". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 17 January 1998. p. 51. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
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16. "Accreditations 1997 Albums - Australian Record Industry Association". Ariacharts.com.au. Retrieved 2010-02-15.
17. "Canadian Recording Industry Association: Certification Results- February 15, 2010". CRIA. Retrieved 2010-02-15.
18. . BPI http://www.bpi.co.uk/certified-awards.aspx. Retrieved 2013-02-12. Missing or empty |title= (help)
19. "Gold & Platinum - February 12, 2010". RIAA. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
20. Geoff Mayfield (December 25, 1999). 1999 The Year in Music Totally '90s: Diary of a Decade - The listing of Top Pop Albums of the '90s & Hot 100 Singles of the '90s. Billboard. Retrieved October 15, 2010.
21. Sevens (CD). Garth Brooks. Capitol Records. 1997. 329519.