Ropin' the Wind is the third studio album by American country music artist Garth Brooks. It was released on September 2, 1991 and was his first studio album to debut at #1 the Billboard 200 chart and the Top Country Albums chart. There it enjoyed four runs at #1 between September 28, 1991 - April 3, 1992, spending a combined 18 weeks at the top, eventually being certified for shipments of 14xPlatinum by the RIAA in 2010. In the UK it reached the Top 50 pop albums list and went to #1 for several months on the country charts. It has gone to sell 17 million copies world wide.
The track "Shameless" is a cover of a Billy Joel song, previously recorded on his 1989 album Storm Front.
According to music review website Allmusic, Ropin' the Wind is the first country album to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200.
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“To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things—but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.”
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