Sevens is the seventh studio album by American country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released on November 25, 1997, and debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, and on the Top Country Albums chart. The album also topped the Country album charts in Britain for several months and crossed over into the mainstream pop charts. His duet with Trisha Yearwood, "In Another's Eyes", won the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals at the Grammy Awards of 1998. Sevens was nominated for the Best Country Album Grammy the following year.

Background

Brooks commented on the album by saying:

"I'm proud, I'm excited, I'm nervous, and it feels good to be back in the game again. This is a very personal album. I only wrote six of the songs, but there are many that are so 'me' that people I work with every day thought I wrote them".

Track listings
"Longneck Bottle" (Rick Carnes, Steve Wariner) – 2:15
"How You Ever Gonna Know" (Kent Blazy, Garth Brooks) – 3:35
"She's Gonna Make It" (Blazy, Kim Williams, Brooks) – 2:45
"I Don't Have to Wonder" (Shawn Camp, Taylor Dunn) – 3:04
"Two Piña Coladas" (Camp, Benita Hill, Sandy Manson) – 3:34
"Cowboy Cadillac" (Bryan Kennedy, Brooks) – 2:50
"Fit for a King" (Jim Rushing, Carl Jackson) – 3:58
"Do What You Gotta Do" (Pat Flynn) – 2:57
"You Move Me" (Gordon Kennedy, Pierce Pettis) – 4:34
"In Another's Eyes" (Bobby Wood, John Peppard, Brooks) – 3:33
duet with Trisha Yearwood
"When There's No One Around" (Tim O'Brien, Darrell Scott) – 3:33
"A Friend to Me" (Victoria Shaw, Brooks) – 3:05
"Take The Keys to My Heart" (Hill, Pam Wolfe, Tommy Smith) – 2:31
"Belleau Wood" (Joe Henry, Brooks) – 3:29

Chart performance
Sevens debuted at #1 on the U.S. Billboard 200, becoming his fifth, and #1 on the Top Country Albums, becoming his seventh #1 Country album. In November 2006, Sevens was certified 10 x Platinum by the RIAA.

Charts

Certifications

End of decade charts

Chart Successions

Credits

Technical
Recorded and Mixed by Mark Miller
Recorded at Jack's Tracks Recording Studio
Assisted by Duke Duczer and Joe Hayden
Strings Recorded at Javelina Studios
Mastered at Georgetown Masters by Denny Purcell
Digital Editing by Carlos Grier

Personnel
As listed in liner notes.
Susan Ashton – background vocals ("She's Gonna Make It", "You Move Me")
Sam Bacco – percussion ("You Move Me", "Belleau Wood"), congas ("She's Gonna Make It")
Bruce Bouton – steel guitar
Garth Brooks – lead vocals, background vocals
Sam Bush – background vocals ("Do What You Gotta Do"), mandolin ("Do What You Gotta Do", "When There's No One Around")
Shawn Camp – acoustic guitar ("Two Piña Coladas")
Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar
Mike Chapman – bass guitar
John Cowan – background vocals ("Do What You Gotta Do")
Béla Fleck – banjo
Pat Flynn – acoustic guitar ("Do What You Gotta Do")
Kevin Grant – bass guitar ("Fit for a King")
Rob Hajacos – fiddle
Randy Hardison – drums ("Fit for a King")
Lona Heid – background vocals ("Fit for a King")
Randy Howard – fiddle ("Fit for a King")
Carl Jackson – acoustic guitar, background vocals ("Fit for a King")
Chris Leuzinger – electric guitar, nylon string guitar
Edgar Meyer – arco bass ("Belleau Wood")
Al Perkins – Dobro ("Fit for a King")
Milton Sledge – drums, percussion
Catherine Styron – piano ("Fit for a King")
Steve Wariner – acoustic guitar ("Longneck Bottle")
Bobby Wood – piano, keyboard

Crowd vocals on "Two Piña Coladas": Dorothy "The Birthday Girl" Robinson, Charles Green, Mat Lindsey, Sandy Mason, Shawn Camp, Big Al, "Double D", Sam "The Man" Duczer, Garth Brooks

All strings performed by the Nashville String Machine; conducted and arranged by Jim Ed Norman.

Art
Production: Carlton Davis
Production Assistant: Denise Jarvis
Art Direction: Virginia Team
Design: Jerry Joyner
Photography: Beverly Parker
Additional Photographs: Henry Diltz, Virginia Team and Jerry Joyner
Make-Up: Mary Beth Felts
Digital Imager: Harris Graphics

First editions
777,777 copies of Sevens were marked as First Editions. These albums have a gold seal on the CD booklet and a similar mark on the CD itself. Canadian versions of the albums have a maple leaf shaped seal on the cover. First Editions were not released outside of North America.

References

1997 albums
Garth Brooks albums