Garth Brooks To Finally Make New “Time Traveler” Album Available on Amazon
The latest Garth Brooks album and his 17th overall will finally be made available on Friday, September 6th … for streaming only … exclusively on Amazon Music. No word on if physical standalone copies will ever be made available, and like all of Garth’s other songs and albums, it won’t be available on any other streaming service thanks to his exclusive Amazon deal.
The official release date for Garth’s Time Traveler still stands as November 7th, 2023. This was the date the album was made available for purchase, but only as part of a bigger box set exclusively available at Bass Pro Shops. The box set also comes with the albums Man Against Machine (2014), Gunslinger (2016), and Fun (2020), along with Triple Live (2018). It is part of Garth’s “Limited Series,” which has released two other box set collections in the past.
Garth says about the new album, “There are a lot of different eras on this album, thus the name. Country music’s core is sincerity, after that, you can dress it up a thousand different ways. I am so lucky to live under the flag of Country Music.”
Though the album has not been available for streaming previously, multiple singles have made their way onto Amazon Music, including the lead single “Rodeo Man” with Ronnie Dunn that made it to #25 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart. The song was released in November of 2023 to coincide with the box set. “Neon Neighborhood” was also released on March 7th, “The Ship and the Bottle” feat. Kelly Clarkson was released on March 21st, and “Me Without You” was released on April 11th.
The release of these singles a few weeks apart had some Garth fans believing that eventually all the songs would be released in this manner, but then the single releases ceased. Nine of the ten songs on the album are originals, with Garth also adding his version of the country classic “The Ride” about Hank Williams originally popularized by David Allan Coe. Garth adds a verse to the song to “complete” the story, according to Garth.
The Bass Pro Shops release was Garth’s eight box set overall. And then last month, Garth released his 9th box set called 777 with 77 songs and performances from his Las Vegas residency at Caesar’s Palace.
It’s hard to determine if anyone is even paying attention to any of these Garth Brooks releases since many people don’t even own a CD player anymore, most people have adopted streaming, and there seems to be little or no press or promotional push behind these releases.
Nonetheless, Garth Brooks remains one of the most popular music performers of all time, and Time Traveler includes some genuine country tracks, including “Rodeo Man.”
TRACK LIST:
- “Me Without You” (Garth Brooks, Kent Blazy, Mitch Rossell)
- “Rodeo Man” (Ronnie Dunn, Phil O’Donnell)
- “Only Country Music” (Brooks, Ashley Gorley, Matt Rossi)
- “St Paul/Minneapolis (A True Story)” (Brooks)
- “Neon Neighborhood” (Brooks, Tony Arata, Blazy, Bryan Kennedy, Matt Rossi)
- “The Ship and the Bottle” (Nicolle Galyon, Chase McGill, Jon Nite)
- “Pleasure in the Pain” (Brooks, Matt Rossi, Bobby Terry)
- “The Ride” (John Blayne Detterline Jr., Gary Gentry)
- “Another Man’s Sky” (Blazy, Royal Wade Kimes)
- “We Belong to Each Other” (Stephanie Davis)
August 25, 2024 @ 7:12 am
I’m sure he’s got his reasons but Garth has pretty much killed off his entire catalogue to an entire generation of listeners.
He’s making so much I guess it doesn’t matter, but outside of the singles, his music pretty much doesn’t exist at this point to the younger listener
August 25, 2024 @ 1:00 pm
I agree.
It is his right to control his music but his refusal to use Spotify has sidelined his appeal for new fans.
August 25, 2024 @ 6:47 pm
I can’t imagine what those Rea$on$ would be.
Garth Brooks remains a consummate tool. An insincere tool.
August 26, 2024 @ 7:51 am
Fans want his music available for free. Because rea$on$.
But they aren’t greedy; only Garth is.
August 26, 2024 @ 4:38 pm
As the daughter of one of the songwriters, we want our money just like everyone else. If it’s free then it’s theft. The writers deserve to be paid.
August 26, 2024 @ 5:03 pm
Nobody said free. Most people put their music on multiple platforms. I don’t listen to “free” music on Spotify. Garth signed an exclusivity deal Amazon. Because he’s an asshole. This is the guy who “buried” his greatest hits and railed against 2nd hand sales of Compact Discs. So he could feed his children.
August 27, 2024 @ 12:41 pm
He should have been on the South Park download episode with Metallica, Master P and Britney Spears. LOL. Great satire.
August 25, 2024 @ 7:56 am
Was never a huge garth fan anyway but his shenanigans with releasing his music has totally shifted my I dont give a damn into high gear. Have no interest at all in investing in another music service. I dont like it when big sporting companies determine where i can watch a game based on whose giving them the most money and i especially dont like it when individuals do it with music. Character and values goes a long ways in determining someones greatness and this is why i dont consider garth one of the all time greats in country music.
August 25, 2024 @ 9:57 am
I also like free shit all the time.
August 25, 2024 @ 1:01 pm
You are funny. Nothing is free. But making someone pay more for it than neccessary is a dip shit move.
August 25, 2024 @ 3:56 pm
What is more necessary? That phrase is vague as “fair share.”
August 26, 2024 @ 8:51 am
Not really, how about either releasing it on all streaming platforms or on cds everyehere not one store. Pretty simple not to be a douche. I personally font care but someone needs to stick up for the common people.
August 25, 2024 @ 12:57 pm
Yes, everyone wants everything for free. It is why America is in a freefall.
August 25, 2024 @ 8:16 am
Would be funny if this album was actually really good. I just would think at this point Garth would be more interested in preserving his legacy than maximizing physical sales. But I guess not
August 25, 2024 @ 8:17 am
That album cover. “This is the Garth Brooks expression you make when…”
August 25, 2024 @ 6:51 pm
It’s Blue Steele. Zoolander would be proud. But Stiller was in on the joke. Garth’s not.
August 25, 2024 @ 9:03 am
This sort of thing may well be a savvy business decision – and I don’t begrudge him that, certainly – but it’s also why the last Garth album I bought was Sevens.
August 25, 2024 @ 9:58 am
Great. I will give it a listen as I am a fan but I would like a physical copy.
August 25, 2024 @ 10:03 am
He just comes off so smug and self absorbed. Don’t worry, Garth finally”completed” The Ride after all these years. Who wrote the new verse I wonder?
August 25, 2024 @ 2:09 pm
Agreed, I’ve heard the added verse, I don’t think it contributes anything to the song much less completes the story.
August 26, 2024 @ 4:36 pm
I’m just glad he cut the song. I’m the daughter of one of the writers and Garth had to ask permission to add the verse. I was not able to hear it prior to coming out, but he didn’t take a songwriter rights. He gave it to my siblings and me, as well as the other writer, even though he could have taken a portion. I just got another check in the mail for an additional 200,000 boxed set sells. This initial check was for 500,000 sells. So, people are still buying them. Releasing the album to Amazon will greatly increase the royalties, so for that, I am grateful. I do wish they would be available on more platforms. The more you do, the easier it is for people to steal the music and the writers deserve to be paid.
August 27, 2024 @ 6:08 am
As Todd Snider said, Garth is fairer than most of his supposed art-first friends.
August 28, 2024 @ 11:21 am
Your dad should be in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, if for The Ride alone, to say nothing of the rest of his great catalog.
August 25, 2024 @ 11:07 am
When indie artists release albums on minidisc or cassette it’s “trendy” and “unique.” When Garth only releases his albums on CD it’s “greedy and out-of-touch.”
Do the right thing and bring a burned disk to one of his autograph signings and ask him to sign it.
August 25, 2024 @ 12:55 pm
Success breeds jealously in lesser lights.
August 25, 2024 @ 1:06 pm
I would be interested to know what artist release music only on cassette or minidisc. Far as garth here, this article didnt sau he was releasing it on cd, it was on one specific music service.
August 25, 2024 @ 4:13 pm
I don’t remember the names and I never listened to their music but some weird alternative rock bands did it.
August 26, 2024 @ 4:45 am
Supposedly, The Flatlanders’ first album only came out on 8-track.
August 25, 2024 @ 3:15 pm
I don’t really get the cassette renaissance personally. I have some nostalgia for the format and even still listen to cassettes now and then (my spare vehicle is from 1996). But as far as hearing music in it’s best possible quality, I don’t see what the format offers.
But that being said, the largest manufacturer of audio cassettes in the world is a small, family owned business in Missouri and I’m glad that they’re somehow still turning a profit in 2024.
Amazon, on the other hand, is a company that made $30 billion last year and that is owned by the world’s second-wealthiest individual.
Personally, I’d love to see someone as successful as Garth partner with the National Audio Company or one of the few vinyl pressing plants still in operation, to help keep the manufacturing jobs we still have in this country around a little longer, rather than rewarding a company that is partially responsible for the closure of mom-and-pop stores nationwide, and particularly in areas where many of Garth’s fans live. Unfortunately, that’s never what he’s been about.
August 25, 2024 @ 4:13 pm
My car is a 2001 and has a cassette player that I use. For me the appeal of cassette tapes is that I am “forced” to listen to all the songs on an album and will often times find myself eventually liking other songs more after awhile.
The vast majority of new vinyl sales are never played on record players. Taylor Swift fans will buy her vinyl albums to collect them. I don’t think that format will ever go away. Sonically there is no point beyond the aesthetic. Making vinyl from digital masters totally undermines the point.
Has Garth had any hits after the early 00’s? He’s basically a legacy act at this point.
August 25, 2024 @ 8:27 pm
Garth is 60-some years old and released his first #1 single 35 years ago. Of course he’s a legacy act. Strait’s a legacy act, too.
FWIW, Garth had 6 top-40 country singles in the second half of the 2000’s, including a #1. And he’s had another 9 top-40 country radio singles since 2010, including 5 that were top-20 and one more that went to #1.
August 27, 2024 @ 12:44 pm
I read the burned disc autograph line and almost spat out my moonshine.
August 25, 2024 @ 1:55 pm
8 of the 10 tracks are originals. The ship and the bottle was originally released by Brett Young (I know no one talks about him here) back in 2018.
August 26, 2024 @ 3:43 am
Can’t wait for the anti Beer for My Horses with him and Isbella.
August 26, 2024 @ 5:22 am
Where are the bodies Garth?
August 26, 2024 @ 6:14 am
How original.
August 26, 2024 @ 6:40 am
GFY, how about that for being original? I was just having a good Monday morning, but people like you make that hard to do. I hope you have a wonderful day and whatever crawled up your butt makes it’s way out.
August 26, 2024 @ 7:13 am
Maybe I was having a good morning until I had to read “where are the bodies, Garth” for the umpteenth time. It wasn’t funny the first time and it hasn’t been funny the million subsequent times.
Your Monday couldn’t have been going that well if two words from a commenter on a blog ruined it for you.
Your comment didn’t “ruin my Monday,” but since you’ve chosen to be such a dick about my response, I’m glad my comment ruined yours.
LOL.
August 26, 2024 @ 9:20 am
I hope you have a good day sir.
August 27, 2024 @ 12:44 pm
In Puffy’s back yard.
August 27, 2024 @ 3:14 pm
I came up with some of the C railroad peeps brother.
August 28, 2024 @ 1:02 pm
Accidentally liked my own comment. I am not deliberately that guy, lol.
August 28, 2024 @ 1:17 pm
I liked it too ..lol
August 26, 2024 @ 6:10 am
That album cover was shot in the basement. His victim is off camera to the left.
August 26, 2024 @ 2:09 pm
never cared for Mr brooks
August 27, 2024 @ 3:15 pm
You can’t say that….per interstate daydreamer. It’s not funny!!! Lol
August 26, 2024 @ 4:34 pm
Releasing only on Amazon is just a dick move, which I expect from the likes of a Garth Brooks, but it’s a true disappointment that Turnpike Troubadours also chose this route for their new release of an old Bobby Darin song. I think we can all agree on this sentiment: fuck Jeff Bezos. Pardon my French.
August 27, 2024 @ 6:09 am
I guess that means the Turnpike Troubadours are greedy too!
SCM posters, turn the pitchforks on them!
August 27, 2024 @ 6:27 am
Huge difference between releasing one song exclusively to a platform and only making your entire catalog available on one platform. Artists and bands do what Turnpike did here all the time with random cover songs. You see this on Spotify and Apple Music as well. I don’t like it. I think any song you release should be on all platforms. But I understand this is a way for an artist to get in good with a streaming service so they advertise them. Harmless.
August 27, 2024 @ 8:32 am
Trigger,
I was being highly facetious.
Turnpike is my favorite band.
August 26, 2024 @ 6:43 pm
There has always been something kind of jivy about Garth.
August 26, 2024 @ 8:18 pm
I remember that when Garth Brooks first came out he was a clear second to Clint Black who beat him to the market by a few months. In fact, Garth’s debut album never went to #1 because it was blocked out by Black’s phenomenal “Killing Time,” which spawned at least four #1 hits. And even after that, a lot of critics thought Black or Randy Travis or Travis Tritt or Alan or Chesnutt or Diffie were better singers.
Everything now is just gravy for Garth. The fact that people are still arguing about his new releases, while all of his initial competitors (save for Strait) are in the witness protection program (or in one or two cases, dead), says that he must be doing SOMETHING right.
August 27, 2024 @ 6:13 am
He made great country music and, unlike most artists and fans, he understood and capitalized on the music business. Garth doesn’t live in a fantasyland of what the music business should be. He obtained his masters and played by his rules.
August 27, 2024 @ 8:47 am
I guess if you have low standards, garth made some great country music. Ill give him Friends in low places and The dance, after that mostly average.
August 27, 2024 @ 9:49 am
My criteria for a legacy is how many songs will be remembered in the future ? Merle Haggard or Garth? If selling the most is your thing then rock on.
August 27, 2024 @ 11:47 am
Well, Garth essentially sells out venues and tours on 25+ year-old material.
August 27, 2024 @ 10:17 pm
Its a great album, worth buying. One of his best since coming out of retirement in 2014.
August 28, 2024 @ 2:31 am
I have always been a Garth fan. I have loved every song and every album. I look forward to this new box set as I have all the previous ones. I still buy physical copies because I’m not paying for Amazon or Spotify or any of that. Bass pro shop has a bunch of rednecks that go in there and most rednecks love them some Garth. This “new” generation wouldn’t know a legacy artist of one was standing right in front of them. Too many swiftness and sexy red fans eck gads. Garth will always remain relevant, people still talk about the possum George Jones and the man’s been dead for a while now.
August 30, 2024 @ 9:30 am
I wish he would just stop with the 30 year old promo pics – good gravy. Let it go man.
September 10, 2024 @ 11:55 am
Serious question..
Is adding a verse to a previously recorded song like “The Ride” a normal or accepted practice? Or is it something that’s frowned upon?? I doubt David Allan Coe cares too much, but how does the rest of the industry and fans feel about it?
I don’t know, I was just wondering about it in my head after reading this.