Garth Brooks hit the top of the Billboard 200 chart with his fifth studio release, “In Pieces,” on September 18, 1993. That album followed his 1992 release “The Chase” and featured the singles "Ain't Going Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up)" and "American Honky-Tonk Bar Association.”When the album hit number one on that chart, it claimed the top spot from “River of Dreams” by Billy Joel. He held on through October 8 of that year, when Nirvana hit number one with “In Utero.” Garth would later hit number one on the chart again on October 16. The album also includes the single “The Red Strokes,” which Brooks explained in the album’s liner notes, saying:"'The Red Strokes' came to me as a poem from Lisa Sanderson. She had visited The Louvre in France and talked about a painting that was just all brush strokes. She noticed how the red ones stuck out and wondered, if she was to paint her life, how many red strokes would there be for the passion, anger and times of most emotion. I fell in love with the poem."