Blame it All on My Roots: Five Decades of Influences is the fourth compilation box set by American country music artist Garth Brooks, released by Pearl Records on November 28, 2013.
The 8-disc set, sold exclusively through Walmart and Sam's Club stores, includes 77 songs on six compact discs, plus 33 music videos, and a full-length live performance from the Garth at Wynn residency show in Las Vegas, on two DVDs. Four of the CDs are new studio albums composed entirely of cover songs. The remaining two CDs and the DVD in the set are a reissue of The Ultimate Hits.
Content Loosely modeled from the set list of his residency show, Garth at Wynn, the albums feature songs Brooks attributes to the development of his unique country pop genre. They were produced by Mark Miller, with additional production from Steve Buckingham on "Shout." Allen Reynolds produced The Ultimate Hits.
Commercial performance The album debuted at number 3 on the Billboard Top 200 chart with 164,000 copies from fewer than four days of sales and reached number 1 in its second week with 146,000 marking his ninth top album on the chart. As of September 10, 2014, has sold 893,000 copies in the United States.
Track listing
Personnel
Jill Dell'Abate – background vocals Pat Alger – acoustic guitar, background vocals Bob Babbitt – bass guitar Sam Bacco – percussion Bob Bailey – background vocals Al "Shaggy" Barclay – background vocals Eddie Bayers – drums, handclapping, keyboards, percussion DeWayne Blackwell – background vocals Bruce Bouton – steel guitar, background vocals Tim Bowers – background vocals Jimmy Bowland – saxophone Garth Brooks – choir, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, handclapping, lead vocals, background vocals Sandy Brooks – background vocals Stephanie C. Brown – background vocals Tom Bukovac – acoustic guitar, electric guitar Dennis Burnside – horn arrangements, string arrangements Sam Bush – fiddle, mandolin Shawn Camp – acoustic guitar David Campbell – string arrangements Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar, electric guitar Mike Chapman – bass guitar, handclapping, background vocals Kathy Chiavola – choir, background vocals Johnny Christopher – acoustic guitar Charles Cochran – string arrangements Allie Colleen – background vocals Chad Cromwell – drums, percussion Jerry Douglas – dobro Bob Doyle – background vocals Stuart Duncan – fiddle, mandolin Earl of Bud Lee – background vocals The Englands – background vocals Béla Fleck – banjo Pat Flynn – acoustic guitar Paul Franklin – steel guitar Dave Gant – background vocals Steve Gibson – acoustic guitar, electric guitar Carl Gorodetzky – string contractor Barry Green – trombone Charles Green – handclapping Tracy Greenwood – handclapping Rob Hajacos – fiddle, background vocals Vicki Hampton – background vocals Joe Harris – background vocals Mike Haynes – trumpet Dan Heins – background vocals John Hobbs – keyboards Jim Horn – saxophone Jon Mark Ivey – background vocals John Barlow Jarvis – keyboards Wendy Johnson – choir, background vocals Rusty Jones – background vocals Gordon Kennedy – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, background vocals Steve King – background vocals Wayne Kirkpatrick – acoustic guitar, background vocals Jennifer Kummer – french horn Chris Leuzinger – acoustic guitar, electric guitar Sam Levine – saxophone Pam "The Chick" Lewis – background vocals Terry McMillan – harmonica Kenny Malone – drums, percussion Blair Masters – keyboards Jimmy Mattingly – fiddle Edgar Meyer – upright bass Joey Miskulin – accordion Mark Miller – handclapping Doug Moffet – saxophone, soloist Buddy Mondlock – background vocals Steve Morley – background vocals Farrell Morris – percussion Jonell Mosser – background vocals The Nashville String Machine – strings Jim Ed Norman – string arrangements Jennifer O'Brien – choir, background vocals Mike Palmerman – background vocals Billy Panda – acoustic guitar, electric guitar Steve Patrick – trumpet Wayland Patton – choir, background vocals Brian Petree – background vocals Dale Pierce – background vocals Jon Randall – background vocals Michael Rhodes – bass guitar Karyn Rochelle – background vocals Chris Rodriguez – background vocals Jim Rooney – background vocals Tami Rose – background vocals John Wesley Ryles – background vocals Lee Sartin – background vocals Lisa Silver – background vocals Milton Sledge – drums, percussion Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass guitar Kira Small – background vocals Chris Stapleton – background vocals Morgane Hayes-Stapleton – background vocals Charley Stefl – background vocals Scott Stem – background vocals Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin Daniel Tashian – background vocals Vaneese Thomas – background vocals Fonzi Thornton – background vocals Steve Wariner – acoustic guitar, background vocals Bergen White – string arrangements, background vocals Hurshel Wiginton – choir, background vocals Bobby Wood – handclapping, keyboards, background vocals Glenn Worf – bass guitar Trisha Yearwood – choir, background vocals Curtis Young – choir, background vocals Reggie Young – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Charts
Weekly charts Chart (2013–2014) Peakposition scope="row"scope="row" scope="row" scope="row" scope="row"
Year-end charts Chart (2014)PositionUS Billboard 2009US Independent Albums (Billboard)1 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)2
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