The first single off Garth Brooks' upcoming album Time Traveler arrived on Monday (Nov. 6) and teams Brooks with another Country Music Hall of Famer who's synonymous with '90s country. Ronnie Dunn of Brooks & Dunn appears on the duet "Rodeo Man."
Dunn co-wrote the song with Phil O'Donnell. It's streaming exclusively through Amazon and made its radio world premiere on Nov. 6. The song became the No. 1 Most-Added song at country radio.
"It's buckin' AWESOME!" Brooks says of the collaboration. "Ronnie Dunn is simply one of the greatest voices in all of country music."
Time Traveler will debut as part of the third and final volume of Brooks' The Limited Series. The seven-disc set includes the new album plus the rest of Brooks' output from the past decade: 2014's Man Against Machine, 2016's Gunslinger, 2019's three-disc Triple Live compilation and 2020's Fun.
According to Brooks, the title Time Traveler fits because the songs span a lengthy timeline of influences and sounds.
"Country music's core is sincerity, after that, you can dress it up a thousand different ways," he shared (as quoted by the Tennesseean). "I am so lucky to live under the flag of country music."
Here's the catch: the box set will only be sold by Bass Pro Shops beginning on Nov. 7. Online preorders are available now and will ship in mid-November.
Bass Pro Shops snuck a joke into its online listing, promoting the CD set as proof that "we have friends in 'fowl' places."
The arrangement with Bass Pro Shops is reminiscent of Brooks' 1994 deal with McDonald's. Back then, Brooks' first greatest hits compilation, The Garth Brooks Collection, was available on CD and cassette through the fast food chain. McDonald's also sold titles by Elton John, Tina Turner and Roxette, with $1 from each sale benefitting Ronald McDonald Children's Charities. At a time when Garth mania was running wild, The Garth Brooks Collection sold over 3 million copies. That's a puny sales figure compared to the more widely-available The Hits, which came out three months later and moved over 10 million units.
