Released: Nov. 21, 1995

Rating:

Genre: country

Quotable: --

Album Tracks:

1. The Old Stuff
2. Cowboys and Angels
3. The Fever
4. That Ol’ Wind
5. Rollin’
6. The Change
7. The Beaches of Cheyenne
8. To Make You Feel My Love *
9. It’s Midnight Cinderella
10. She’s Every Woman
11. Ireland

Sales:

6 million
60,000
--
8.5 million

Peak:

2
22

Singles/Hit Songs:

• She’s Every Woman (9/9/95) #1 CW, #55 UK
• The Fever (11/25/95) #23 CW
• The Beaches of Cheyenne (12/9/95) #1 CW
• That Ol’ Wind (12/9/95) 4 CW
• The Change (12/9/95) #20 CW
• It’s Midnight Cinderella (12/9/95) #32 CW
• The Old Stuff (12/9/95) #64 CW
• Rollin’ (12/9/95) #71 CW
• To Make You Feel My Love (5/16/98) #1 CW, #8 AC

Notes: In 1998, Garth Brooks, No Fences, Ropin’ the Wind, The Chase, In Pieces, and Fresh Horses were packaged as a box set called The Limited Series. A bonus track was added to each album. This album’s track was ‘To Make You Feel My Love.’

“The problem is, he doesn’t know which way he should go. Throughout the album, he swings back and forth between country and rock without any sense of purpose. Brooks tries to rework Aerosmith’s The Fever into a rowdy rodeo country-rocker, but the end result is forced and half-hearted” (Erlewine).

“The Aerosmith cover illustrates the problems of Fresh Horses: Brooks is trying too hard to cover new territory and restore hardcore honky tonk grit to his slick country-rock. When he lets his guard down – such on as the melancholy ballad The Beaches of Cheyenne and the sassy, suggestive It’s Midnight Cinderella – he can still come up with winners, but those moments don’t come frequently on Fresh Horses” (Erlewine).