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Garth Brooks: Ropin' The Wind (Capitol CDP 7 98468 2)

Andy Gill, The Independent, 6 February 1992

JUDGING BY his sales, Garth Brooks is the biggest thing in country music — ever. Ropin' The Wind has done six million copies in America, more than any other country album, and has sat atop the regular album charts (not just the country charts) for weeks on end, barely bothered even by the hype and bluster attached to Michael Jackson's Dangerous. Impressive form by any standards.

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