Scarecrow
| Garth Brooks
Scarecrow
Scarecrow is the eighth studio album by American country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released on November 13, 2001, and debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, and the Top Country Albums chart. It has been certified 5 platinum RIAA and was named Best Selling Album at the 2002 Canadian Country Music Association Awards. It was the last album by Brooks before his thirteen-year hiatus. --Wikipedia
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My Kind of Country
Scarecrow is probably one of Garth’s more forgettable albums but on average the plusses outweigh the minuses. Garth fans will like it and even more casual listeners will find plenty to enjoy.
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All Music
The friskier songs, from "Beer Run" to "Big Money," fare better than the ballads, but those ballads still work, and overall Scarecrow proves that mainstream modern country doesn't have a better singer than Brooks at his best.
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BBC
In providing us with a set of songs this uplifting and unsurprising he has done exactly what his public demands of him. This is after all what he does best.
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Billboard
Brooks offers up a comparatively focused effort on Scarecrow, having zeroed in on his vocal strengths, Allen Reynolds' crystalline production, and powerful songs.
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Entertainment Weekly
Scarecrow's considerable charm lies in its earthy simplicity, and in an artist reveling in the knowledge that he has nothing more to prove.
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Rolling Stone
On Scarecrow, bluegrass, honky-tonk and pop stand side by side with ballads and rock, but the juxtaposition isn't jarring -- it's just typical Garth.
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The Village Voice
Coasting on the safest record of a career he claims is over, Garth Brooks does seem like a scarecrow—a hollow man, a stuffed man, retiring in every sense of the word. If so, this is the way his career ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
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