Brooks's third album, 1991's Ropin' the Wind, found him distancing himself further from the new-traditionalist hat-pack. The album's centerpiece was an all-stops-out Southern-rock cover of Billy Joel's "Shameless", while another hit single, "Rodeo", boasted a slinky Creedence-style groove. Brooks's propensity for sentimental folk-pop clichŽs surfaced on the ballads "What She's Doing Now" and "The River", but "We Bury the Hatchet" and "Papa Loved Mama" were … mehrtongue-in-cheek attempts at honky-tonk and truck-drivin' boogie. While Brooks subsequently has been criticized for putting a cowboy hat atop rock & roll and calling it country, these tracks sound more like vintage Ernest Tubb next to some of today's Nashville Pop-tarts. --Rick Mitchell weniger
CD 1
01 - Against The Grain
02 - Rodeo
03 - What She´s Doing Now
04 - Burning Bridges… mehr
05 - Papa Loved Mama
06 - Shameless
07 - Cold Shoulder
08 - We Bury The Hatchet
09 - In Lonesome Dove
10 - The River
11 - Alabama Clay
12 - Everytime That It Rains
13 - Nobody Gets Off This Town
14 - Cowboy Bill weniger