![]() ![]() But at times, the new album is spare to a fault. It finds Brooks wisely pulling back from the more raucous, rock-energized efforts of the recent past. "Sevens" is by no means a bad album, but neither is it a great one. With Brooks's pal Pat Quigley now heading Capitol Nashville, "Sevens" (Capitol) has now hit the market, three months late but still in time for the holidays and in the middle of the top concert tour of 19. Piqued at personnel changes and marketing disarray at Capitol/EMI, Brooks delayed the release of his seventh album during what would have been a publicity bonanza, his much-ballyhooed HBO-Central Park concert in August. Having sold 62 million albums in America since 1989 - only the Beatles ever sold more - Brooks now has enough power to shape label hiring policies. Garth Brooks is the bull in the china shop of country music. ![]()
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