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In Pieces

by Garth Brooks

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2000

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Overall Rating: 2.9983 In Pieces is ranked overall as 2.9983 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.0250 In Pieces has an avg. critic score of 3.0250 out of 4 stars

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All Music Guide

After the relative commercial disappointment ofThe Chase, Garth Brooks toned down his experimental eclecticism onIn Pieces. ...more

Entertainment Weekly

By its very nature, country music is formulaic-which, actually, is one of the best things about it. On any given album, you expect a song about raising hell, another about a back-street love affair, one about family nostalgia. ...more

Rolling Stone

With Garth Brooks' fine new album comes no surprises; like his five previous ones, it offers 10 painstakingly chosen songs played unerringly. As ever, his voice – in either growl or quaver – is a vehicle of supple interpretive range. ...more

Yahoo! Music

Brooks rediscovers the value of good old-fashioned honky-tonking on In Pieces , pulls off a big anthem ("Standing Outside The Fire") and reunites New Grass Revival for "Callin' Baton Rouge." All in all, not a bad piece of work. ...more

Yahoo! Music

After the relative commercial disappointment of The Chase, Garth Brooks toned down his experimental eclecticism on In Pieces. Alternating between heavily rock-influenced numbers, dramatic ballads, and revamped honky tonk, In Pieces appeals to the audience that found The Chase too pretentious and overly serious. ...more

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After the genre-expanding push of his previous three albums -- and the pushback he experienced in some quarters -- Garth Brooks' fifth regular studio album might have been expected to reflect a turn back towards his core country audience. And it...read the complete review at The Daily Vault Album Reviews

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