The Limited Series is the name of Garth Brooks' 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 Wal-Mart and Sam's Club stores. It comprises his studio albums Sevens (1997) and Scarecrow (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", "Love Will Always Win" and "That Girl Is a Cowboy".
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.
Just like the 1998 Limited Series box set, the 2005 box 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 Billboard chart rules that made albums exclusive to a specific retailer ineligible, The Limited Series was not able to chart on the Billboard 200 or Top Country Albums. Furthermore, "the racks that service [Wal-Mart] [...] 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, System of a Down's Hypnotize, sold 320,000 copies.[1][2]
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".
Allen Reynolds – backing vocals on "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream"
Trisha Yearwood – 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, 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).
↑ The Lost Sessions (CD booklet). Garth Brooks. Pearl Records. 2005. 85420-6001-084.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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