Garth Brooks’ first studio album of new material since 2020’s Fun will come out in mid-November as part of a seven-disc boxed set available exclusively through Bass Pro Shops.
Time Traveler, Brooks’ 14th studio album, will be housed in a limited series collection that include his three most recent studio sets since he came out of retirement — 2014’s Man Against Machine, 2016’s Gunslinger and Fun — as well as the three-disc Triple Live concert set.
“There are a lot of different eras on this album, thus the name,” Brooks said in a statement. “ 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.”
The Limited Series will be available in Bass Pro Shops starting Nov. 7. Fans can pre-order The Limited Series now and orders purchased through Bass Pro Shops online store will ship mid-November. Purchase price is $29.95, but fans approved for a Bass Pro Shows Club credit card receive a $20 credit good toward purchase, knocking the price down to $9.95 for the entire bundle. There are 177 Bass Pro Shops in the U.S., including 82 Cabela’s.
This is not the first time that Brooks has released new material through a boxed set. Gunslinger was initially available only as part of a Target-exclusive 10-CD box set, The Ultimate Collection. In addition to the new album, the career-spanning box included nine discs of tunes from Brooks’ catalog. The title moved 134,000 copies in its first week, according to Brooks’ representatives. Gunslinger was then released as a standalone album a week later to all physical retailers, as well as available for streaming through Amazon.
Fun was released the same day as three-disc live album Triple Live Deluxe, but both were available individually through Amazon, Walmart, Target and Talk Shop Live.
Unlike Gunslinger and Fun, a representative for Brooks says Time Traveler will not be released as an individual offering and will not be available for streaming on Amazon. No word on when a first single will be released from the Brooks-produced set, although the country star has been playing a new song, “Pleasure in the Pain,” during his two-year Las Vegas residency, which started earlier this year.
November’s The Limited Series is the third and final release in Brooks’ The Limited Series offerings. The first The Limited Series came out 25 years ago in 1998, and was followed by a second The Limited Series with different content in 2005. The second edition was available exclusively through Walmart.
The Limited Series will be available two weeks before Brooks plays a show to open his long-awaited Nashville bar, Friends in Low Places Bar & Honky Tonk, on Nov. 24. Fan can win tickets to the concert only via Brooks’ The Big 615 station on streaming platform TuneIn. The bar, on Lower Broadway, will open for that night and then will open for good in 2024.
