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Word: ropin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Take our word for it: there was a time when country-music charts did not mention Garth Brooks. Those bygone days receded farther into the past at last week's Country Music Association Awards, where Brooks was named Entertainer of the Year and lassoed Album of the Year for Ropin' the Wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Garthathon | 10/12/1992 | See Source »

Brooks has yet to prove he has the imagination of John Lennon, much less the death-defying charisma of Elvis, but he has broken all of Nashville's sales records. Until his 1991 Ropin' the Wind, no country album had ever entered Billboard's pop chart at No. 1. Since his recording debut a short three years ago, Brooks has moved more albums with more velocity than anyone else in the history of Nashville: when the figures for Ropin' are added to those for Garth Brooks and No Fences, his first and second releases, he has sold more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Country Rocks | 3/30/1992 | See Source »

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