''The Limited Series'' is the name of

Garth Brooks Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962) is an American country music singer and songwriter. His integration of pop and rock elements into the country genre has earned him popularity, particularly in the United States with success on the co ...

' second box set of albums. (It is also the name of his first box set). The set was released in 2005 to be sold exclusively at

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and

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stores. It comprises his studio albums '' Sevens'' (1997) and ''

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'' (2001), the live album '' Double Live'' (1998), and a bonus CD entitled ''The Lost Sessions'' which was also issued separately. ''The Lost Sessions'' also includes three singles: "

Good Ride Cowboy "Good Ride Cowboy" is a song written by Jerrod Niemann, Bryan Kennedy, Richie Brown and Bob Doyle, and recorded by American country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released in October 2005 as the first single from his tenth studio album '' The L ...

", "Love Will Always Win" and "That Girl Is a Cowboy".

The set contains the following previously released albums: *'' Sevens'' *'' Double Live'' *''

'' The ''Double Live'' album contained one of three new covers, themed much like the original album. These covers were of Brooks' live performances recorded after ''Double Live'' was released: The last show of Brooks' final tour in 2000, and the special concert aboard the USS ''Enterprise'' in 2001. A third cover shows special "behind the scenes" moments during Brooks' live tours. The set contains an ''All Access'' DVD, containing footage from Brooks' live shows, as well as a photo gallery and the music videos for "

Standing Outside the Fire "Standing Outside the Fire" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released in December 1993 as the third single from his album '' In Pieces''. The song also appears on ''The Hits'', ''The Limite ...

", "

Callin' Baton Rouge "Callin' Baton Rouge" is a country music song written by Dennis Linde. It was originally recorded by The Oak Ridge Boys on their 1978 album ''Room Service'', and was later recorded by New Grass Revival on their 1989 album ''Friday Night in America'' ...

", " Wrapped Up in You" and "

Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up) "Ain't Going Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released in July 1993 as the lead single from his album '' In Pieces''. The song also appears on ''The Hits'', '' ...

". The DVD also contains approximately 40 minutes of interviews with Brooks. The set contains a booklet with information about all the albums in the set, as well as the lyrics for the songs, in lieu of the usual CD booklets.

Chart performance

Due to ''

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'' chart rules that made albums exclusive to a specific retailer ineligible, ''The Limited Series'' was not able to chart on the ''Billboard'' 200 or

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. Furthermore, "the

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that service [

] [...] opted to withhold reporting sales of this proprietary title to Nielsen SoundScan", leaving it also absent from ''Billboard'' charts that did allow exclusive titles, such as Top Comprehensive Albums. ''Billboard'' reported that according to "industry sources", the set sold "in the neighborhood of 300,000–400,000" copies in the three-day window of its opening week (having been released mid-week), while the official number one album that week,

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's '' Hypnotize'', sold 320,000 copies.

''The Lost Sessions''

''The Limited Series'' contains ''The Lost Sessions'', a studio album of previously unreleased material recorded by Brooks between 1995 and 2000, along with the newly recorded Chris LeDoux tribute, "Good Ride Cowboy". Shortly after the box set was released, ''The Lost Sessions'' was re-released individually, featuring six new songs, and a re-sequenced track listing. It also included a new version of "Good Ride Cowboy", which replaced the previous version's reference of "Navy" with "Air Force".

Track listing

Fishin' in the Dark "Fishin' in the Dark" is a song written by Wendy Waldman and Jim Photoglo, and recorded by American country music group Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, with Jimmy Ibbotson singing lead. It was released on June 7, 1987, as the second single from their alb ...

" (

Wendy Waldman Wendy Waldman (born November 29, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Biography Early life Waldman (born Wendy Steiner) grew up in the Los Angeles area. She was raised in a musical environment: her father Fred Steiner w ...

Jim Photoglo James G. Photoglo is an American soft rock singer and songwriter from Inglewood, California. He released two charting albums in the early 1980s and had two hit singles, " We Were Meant to Be Lovers" (No. 31, 1980) and " Fool in Love with You" (No. ...

) - 3:43 #"That Girl Is a Cowboy" (

Jerrod Niemann Jerrod Lee Niemann (born July 24, 1979) is an American country music singer and songwriter. He has released one single for Category 5 Records (2006); three albums for Sea Gayle Music/Arista Nashville: ''Judge Jerrod & the Hung Jury'' (2010), ''F ...

, Richie Brown, Garth Brooks) - 4:23 #"

" (Niemann, Brown, Bryan Kennedy, Bob Doyle) - 3:26 #"For a Minute There" (

Kent Blazy Kent Blazy (born in Lexington, Kentucky) is an American country music songwriter. His credits include several singles for Garth Brooks (including Brooks' first number one hit, "If Tomorrow Never Comes"), as well as singles by Gary Morris, Diamon ...

, Brooks) - 5:15 #"Please Operator (Could You Trace This Call)" (

Dewayne Blackwell Dewayne L. Blackwell (September 17, 1936 – May 23, 2021) was an American songwriter active since the 1950s. His songs include " Mr. Blue", a 1959 hit for the Fleetwoods; "I'm Gonna Hire a Wino to Decorate Our Home", a 1982 hit for David Frizzell ...

) - 3:42 #"I'd Rather Have Nothing" (

Mike McClure Mike McClure (born July 6, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter, and producer from Tecumseh, Oklahoma. He is currently the frontman for the Mike McClure Band. McClure is a founding member of The Great Divide, and was a member until he and the b ...

) - 3:44 #"American Dream" (Jenny Yates, Brooks; prelude by Dennis Burnside) - 1:52 #"I'll Be the Wind" (

Josh Kear Josh Kear is a Nashville-based songwriter signed to Sony/ATV Music Publishing. In 2007, he cowrote Carrie Underwood’s hit "Before He Cheats" with Chris Tompkins. The song spent five weeks at the top of the charts. His song " Drinking Class", ...

Mark Irwin Mark Irwin (born August 7, 1950) is a Canadian cinematographer. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, and studied political science at the University of Waterloo and filmmaking at York University. He is widely known for his early collaborations ...

) - 4:04 #"My Baby No Está Aquí" (David Stephenson, Shane Stockton) - 2:49 #"Allison Miranda" (Bobby Wood, Dan Roberts, Brooks) - 5:03 #"

Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream" (also known as "The Strangest Dream") is a song written by American folk singer-songwriter Ed McCurdy in 1950. Due to McCurdy's connection with fellow musicians, it was common in repertoires within the fo ...

" (

Ed McCurdy Edward Potts McCurdy (January 11, 1919 – March 23, 2000) was an American folk singer, songwriter, and television actor. His most well-known song was the anti-war " Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream", written in 1950. Career Born to ...

) - 3:31

Personnel

Compiled from liner notes. *

– lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar * Bobby Wood – keyboards *

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–

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

* Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar,

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

bouzouki The bouzouki (, also ; el, μπουζούκι ; alt. pl. ''bouzoukia'', from Greek ), also spelled buzuki or buzuci, is a musical instrument popular in Greece. It is a member of the long-necked lute family, with a round body with a flat top and ...

* Chris Leuzinger – electric guitars,

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* Bruce Bouton –

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Jerry Douglas Gerald Calvin "Jerry" Douglas (born May 28, 1956) is an American Dobro and lap steel guitar player and record producer. Career In addition to his fourteen solo recordings, Douglas has played on more than 1,600 albums. As a sideman, he has ...

–

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Sam Bush Charles Samuel Bush (born April 13, 1952) is an American mandolinist who is considered an originator of progressive bluegrass music. In 2020, he was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame as a member of New Grass Revival. ...

–

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Ronnie McCoury Ronnie McCoury is an American mandolin player, singer, and songwriter (born March 16, 1967). He is the son of bluegrass musician Del McCoury, and is best known for his work with the Del McCoury Band and the Travelin' McCourys. Biography Ronnie Mc ...

– mandolin * Mike Chapman – bass * Milton Sledge – drums, percussion * Sam Bacco – percussion * Rob Hajacos –

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* Jimmy Mattingly – fiddle * Dennis Burnside – string arrangements *

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– strings *

Alison Krauss Alison Maria Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer and musician. She entered the music industry at an early age, competing in local contests by the age of 8 and recording for the first time at 14. She signed with ...

– backing vocals on "For a Minute There" *

Martina McBride Martina Mariea McBride (née Schiff, born July 29, 1966) is an American country music singer-songwriter and record producer. She is known for her soprano singing range and her country pop material. McBride was born in Sharon, Kansas, and relocat ...

– backing vocals on "I'll Be the Wind" *

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– backing vocals on "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream" *

Trisha Yearwood Patricia Lynn Yearwood (born September 19, 1964) is an American singer, actress, author and television personality. She rose to fame with her 1991 debut single " She's in Love with the Boy," which became a number one hit on the ''Billboard'' c ...

– backing vocals on "That Girl Is a Cowboy", "Please Operator", "Allison Miranda" and "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream" * The LeDouxers (background vocals on "Good Ride Cowboy") – Jerrod Niemann, Richie Brown, Bryan Kennedy, Joe Mansfield, David Gant, Bob Doyle, David Corlew, Carolyn Corlew, Jerry Joyner, Beau Serry, Jeff Kaplan, Terry Palmer, Mandy McCormack, Caryn Wariner,

Steve Wariner Steven Noel Wariner (born December 25, 1954) is an American country music singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Initially a backing musician for Dottie West, he also worked with Bob Luman and Chet Atkins before beginning a solo career in the late 1 ...

, Jimmy Mattingly, Gary Birdwell, Karen Byrd, Tami Rose-Thompson, Lane Rose-Thompson, Jason Thompson, Polly Edwards and the B-3's (Taylor, August, and Colleen), Paul Bogart, Cale Lang, Phillip Bogart, Matt and Karen Lindsey, Cassandra Tormes, Rondal Richardson, The Leuzinger Gang (Chris, Mary, Jesse, and Elizabeth), Luellyn Latocki, Bruce Bouton, Patsi Bale Cox, and Tracy Greenwood. * "The crickets on "Fishin' in the Dark" are performed by themselves."

Track listing for ''The Lost Sessions'' (separate version)

(Songs new to this release feature writing credits and song length; information for other tracks is same as above). #"

" -3:27 #"Allison Miranda" - 5:05 #" Love Will Always Win" ( Gordon Kennedy,

Wayne Kirkpatrick Wayne Kirkpatrick (born c. 1961) is an American songwriter and musician born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana who now lives in Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated from Baton Rouge Magnet High School in 1979. His younger brother is American screenwrit ...

) - 4:41 #*Duet with

#"She Don't Care About Me" (

Bruce Robison Bruce Ben Robison (born June 11, 1966) is an American, Austin-based Texas country music singer-songwriter. Bruce and his brother, fellow singer-songwriter Charlie Robison, grew up in Bandera, Texas, near San Antonio, and he currently reside ...

) - 2:57 #"That Girl Is a Cowboy"- 4:24 #"Fishin' in the Dark" - 3:43 #"For a Minute There" - 5:16 #"I'd Rather Have Nothing" - 3:47 #"Cowgirl's Saddle" (Brooks, B. Kennedy, Gary McMahan) - 3:20 #"Under the Table" (Brooks, Randy Taylor) - 3:04 #"American Dream" - 1:54 #"I'll Be the Wind" - 4:06 #"Meet Me in Love" (Brooks, B. Kennedy, Wood) - 2:55 #"You Can't Help Who You Love" (

Marcus Hummon Marcus Spencer Hummon (born December 28, 1960) is an American country music artist. He is the father of country singer Levi Hummon. Early life Hummon was born in Washington, D.C.. He graduated from Williams College. Career After several years o ...

) - 3:47 #"Please Operator (Could You Trace This Call)"- 3:45 #"My Baby No Está Aquí" — 2:51 #"

" - 3:32

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