Standing Outside The Fire It is not unusual for a Garth Brooks song to have an underlying message and SOTF has a worthwhile one and if you ever get to see it, one of the most beautiful music videos i have ever been fortunate to have seen. SOTF is a very fast paced in your face country song that is about testing yourself. It is about taking risks with risks being likened to fire, and if you get burned at least you have truly lived, "Life is not tried it is merely survived if your standing outside the fire" Deceptively for the first few seconds the track starts off with a slow tempo but in no time at all it becomes like the Ozzy Osbourne of country music, lol.

American Honky Tonk Bar Association is foot tapping head nodding fun and is a real beauty of a spirit lifting song. This is your hearty southern, redneck style, upbeat song about the advantages of being a member to the AHBA. This song combines southern style rock and swing artistically to create a slightly lengthy track that entices a smile onto the face, it is just so pleasant.

Ain't Going Down (Till The Sun Comes Up) is the albums debut single and will blow your head off. This is proper hooligan country music if there ever was such a thing and if not then this would patent the idea. Everything in this song is erratic and excessive and cranked up on the stereo housework is a cinch. No doubt about it this is a feel good track and if you ever see Garth do this on stage he goes nuts, just as i do around my living room. The fiddle is incredible and the energy is electrifying....Barn dance on drugs.

Callin' Baton Rouge has some of the most impressive fiddle playing i have ever heard in a song and it kicks off right from the beginning. This song is like a real yee-haw hoe-down but slightly rock orientated making it fresh, modern and perfectly acceptable for young folk to enjoy, which ironically is predominantly who Garth Brooks fan base is, how about that? The song is about a rampant trucker who spends one lustful night with Samantha in Baton Rouge and the next day he can't get over what a dynamic woman she is. So he keeps ringing her to tell her what she means to him, AWWW very sweet. A real happy, bubbly jovial track that gets you rushing for repeat at the end.

In Pieces is another can't go wrong Garth Brooks album. Your more traditional old country such as Kenny Rogers is not a style you will find on a Garth album and many older folk are not so keen. Garth Brooks did to country music the same as Elvis did when he bought out his rock & roll, Garth is a dark horse, a rebel element injecting enthusiasm and stamping is own style and authority of it. Garth's successes speak for themselves and promote his music far better than I, but In Pieces is a revolutionary grab you by the scruff of the neck album and gives youngsters the ability to say "Hell, i like Country Music".