The Limited Series (1998 album)

The Limited Series
Box set by Garth Brooks
Released	May 5, 1998
Genre	Country
Label	Capitol Nashville, Pearl
Producer	various
Garth Brooks chronology
Sevens (1997) The Limited Series (1998) Double Live (1998)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

The Limited Series is a box set released by country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released on May 5, 1998 and debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart and the Top Country Albums chart with 372,410 copies sold.^[2] It features re-issues of Garth's first six albums, with a bonus track added to each. Sales in the United States were limited to two million copies.^[1][3][4]

With the release of The Limited Series, Brooks is the first artist to debut at #1 on two charts with a boxed set and set a record for first week sales of any boxed set in the Soundscan era.^[2]

Of the newly added tracks, "To Make You Feel My Love" (a cover of a Bob Dylan song from the "Hope Floats" soundtrack) reached #1 on the country charts in mid-1998. Additionally, "Something with a Ring to It" was previously recorded by Mark Collie on his 1990 debut album Hardin County Line.

Track listing

Garth Brooks

1. "Not Counting You" (Garth Brooks)
2. "I've Got a Good Thing Going" (Larry Bastian, Sandy Mahl, Garth Brooks)
3. "If Tomorrow Never Comes" (Kent Blazy, Garth Brooks)
4. "Uptown Down Home Good Ol' Boy" (DeWayne Blackwell, Earl Bud Lee)¹
5. "Everytime That It Rains" (Charlie Stefl, Ty England, Garth Brooks)
6. "Alabama Clay" (Larry Cordle, Ronnie Scaife)
7. "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)" (Randy Taylor, Garth Brooks)
8. "Cowboy Bill" (Larry Bastian, Ed Berghoff)
9. "Nobody Gets Off in This Town" (Larry Bastian, DeWayne Blackwell)
10. "I Know One" (Jack Clement)
11. "The Dance" (Tony Arata)

No Fences

1. "The Thunder Rolls" (Pat Alger, Garth Brooks)
2. "New Way to Fly" (Kim Williams, Brooks)
3. "Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House" (Bobby Boyd, Warren Dale Haynes, Dennis Robbins)
4. "Victim of the Game" (Mark D. Sanders, Brooks)
5. "Friends in Low Places" (DeWayne Blackwell, Earl Bud Lee)
6. "This Ain't Tennessee" (Larry Bastian, James Shaw)¹
7. "Wild Horses" (Bill Shore, David Wills)
8. "Unanswered Prayers" (Alger, Larry Bastian, Brooks)
9. "Same Old Story" (Tony Arata)
10. "Mr. Blue" (Blackwell)
11. "Wolves" (Stephanie Davis)

Ropin' the Wind

1. "Against The Grain" (Bruce C. Bouton, Larry Cordle, Carl Jackson)
2. "Rodeo" (Larry Bastian)
3. "What She's Doing Now" (Pat Alger, Garth Brooks)
4. "Burning Bridges" (Stephanie C. Brown, Brooks)
5. "Which One of Them" (Brooks)¹
6. "Papa Loved Mama" (Kim Williams, Brooks)
7. "Shameless" (Billy Joel)
8. "Cold Shoulder" (Kent Blazy, Kim Williams, Brooks)
9. "We Bury The Hatchet" (Royal Wade Kimes, Brooks)
10. "In Lonesome Dove" (Cynthia Limbaugh, Brooks)
11. "The River" (Victoria Shaw, Brooks)

The Chase

1. "We Shall Be Free" - (Stephanie Davis, Garth Brooks)
2. "Somewhere Other Than the Night" (Kent Blazy, Brooks)
3. "Mr. Right" (Brooks)
4. "Every Now and Then" (Buddy Mundlock, Garth Brooks)
5. "Walkin' After Midnight" (Alan Block, Don Hecht)
6. "Dixie Chicken" (Lowell George, Martin Kibbee)
7. "Learning to Live Again" (Don Schlitz, Stephanie Davis)
8. "That Summer" (Pat Alger, Sandy Mahl-Brooks, Brooks)
9. "Something with a Ring to It" (Aaron Tippin, Mark Collie)¹
10. "Night Rider's Lament" (Michael Burton)
11. "Face to Face" (Tony Arata)

In Pieces

1. "Standing Outside The Fire" (Jenny Yates, Garth Brooks)
2. "The Night I Called the Old Man Out" (Pat Alger, Kim Williams, Brooks)
3. "American Honky-Tonk Bar Association" (Bryan Kennedy, Jim Rushing)
4. "One Night a Day" (Gary Burr, Pete Wasner)
5. "Kickin' And Screamin'" (Tony Arata)
6. "Anonymous" (Tony Arata, Jon Schwabe)¹
7. "Ain't Goin' Down ('Til The Sun Comes Up)" (Kent Blazy, Kim Williams, Brooks)
8. "The Red Strokes" (James Garver, Lisa Sanderson, Jenny Yates, Brooks)
9. "Callin' Baton Rouge" (Dennis Linde)
10. "The Night Will Only Know" (Stephanie Davis, Yates, Brooks)
11. "The Cowboy Song" (Roy Robinson)

Fresh Horses

1. "The Old Stuff" (Bryan Kennedy, Dan Roberts, Garth Brooks)
2. "Cowboys and Angels" (Kent Blazy, Kim Williams, Brooks)
3. "The Fever" (Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Bryan Kennedy, Dan Roberts)
4. "That Ol' Wind" (Leigh Reynolds, Brooks)
5. "Rollin'" (Harley Allen, Reynolds, Brooks)
6. "The Change" (Tony Arata, Wayne Tester)
7. "The Beaches of Cheyenne" (Roberts, Kennedy, Brooks)
8. "To Make You Feel My Love" (Bob Dylan) ¹
9. "It's Midnight Cinderella" (Kim Williams, Kent Blazy, Brooks)
10. "She's Every Woman" (Victoria Shaw, Brooks)
11. "Ireland" (Stephanie Davis, Jenny Yates, Brooks)

¹Bonus track not included on original release of album.

Chart performance

The Limited Series debuted at #1 on the U.S. Billboard 200, becoming his sixth #1 album, and #1 on the Top Country Albums, becoming his eight #1 Country album.

Charts Charts (1998) Peak position Canadian RPM Top Albums 7 Canadian RPM Country Albums 1 U.S. Billboard 200[5] 1 U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums[5] 1 Chart Successions Preceded by Before These Crowded Streets by Dave Matthews Band Billboard 200 number-one album May 23 - June 5, 1998 Succeeded by It's Dark and Hell Is Hot by DMX Preceded by One Step at a Time by George Strait Top Country Albums number-one album May 23 - June 19, 1998 Succeeded by Hope Floats by Various Artists Preceded by Come On Over by Shania Twain RPM Country Albums number-one album June 15–21, 1998 Succeeded by Come On Over by Shania Twain References 1 2 Thomas, Stephen (1998-05-05). "Allmusic review". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 2012-08-18.  1 2 "Garth Brooks". Garth Brooks. 1998-05-05. Retrieved 2012-02-28.  ↑ "History of Garth Brooks: The Life and Times of Garth Brooks". PlanetGarth.com. Retrieved 2012-08-18.  ↑ "About.com - Top 25 Garth Brooks Moments". Countrymusic.about.com. Retrieved 2012-08-18.  1 2 "The Limited Series - Garth Brooks". Billboard.com. Retrieved 2012-08-18.  Garth Brooks Discography Awards and nominations Studio albums Garth Brooks No Fences Ropin' the Wind The Chase In Pieces Fresh Horses Sevens Greatest Hits (as Chris Gaines) Scarecrow Man Against Machine Gunslinger Holiday albums Beyond the Season Garth Brooks and the Magic of Christmas Songs from Call Me Claus Christmas Together (with Trisha Yearwood) Compilation albums The Garth Brooks Collection The Hits The Lost Sessions The Ultimate Hits Live albums Double Live Box sets The Limited Series (1998) The Limited Series (2005) The Entertainer Blame It All on My Roots: Five Decades of Influences The Ultimate Collection Concert tours The Garth Brooks World Tour (1993–94) The Garth Brooks World Tour (1996–98) The Garth Brooks World Tour with Trisha Yearwood (2014–present) Residency shows Garth at Wynn (2009–14) Specials Garth: Live from Central Park Garth Brooks: Live in Kansas City Garth Brooks: Live in LA Other ventures GhostTunes Pearl Records Teammates for Kids Foundation Relatives Trisha Yearwood (spouse) Books