Beginning with the trippy backwards guitar of the First Edition classic "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)," the collection offers a five-track sampling from Rogers's late-1960s/early-70's folk-rock years. The collection then delves into a broad ...

Even the title of the three-disc George Jones collection 50 YEARS OF HITS should be enough to tell you that the man being anthologized is one of the all-time giants of country music. A towering influence on all that followed ...

This was the first in what would become a series of Bellamy Brothers greatest-hits compilations released over the years. These ten tracks are the original versions on Warner Bros. that were played to death on the radio at the beginning ...

Although country icon George Jones had made gospel albums before this 2003 recording, both solo and with duet partner Tammy Wynette, this one bears a special significance. The two-disc set of spirituals marks the first time he'd tackled such material ...

Lionel Richie's birthplace is Tuskegee, Alabama so for his 2012 country duets album, Tuskegee, he is trumpeted as the country boy returning to his roots. And there's something to that: as a songwriter, Richie has had success on the country ...

Over the course of these 20 tracks, listeners get to encounter the rare and focused genius that was Gary Stewart. Covering his career from the late '60s through the 1970s while he was with RCA, these songs testify to a ...

After becoming the highest-selling artist of 2008 and 2009, Taylor Swift returns in 2010 with her third album, having written all the material without outside help. Speak Now finds her sticking close to the country-pop hybrids that made her famous, ...

Toby Keith's newest studio album, Clancy's Tavern, was inspired by his grandmother's club, which he visited frequently as a child. Featuring Keith's signature sharp and bold songwriting, the deluxe edition adds four bonus tracks recorded live at New York's Fillmore ...

SOUVENIRS is a compilation of songs from albums Vince Gill recorded for MCA between 1989 and 1992. It also features duets that originally appeared on albums by Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton, and a cover of the Eagles' "I Can't ...

Number One Hits collects 12 tracks recorded during the Bellamy Brothers' tenure with Warner Bros and Curb in the mid-'70s and into the '80s. Included are the original versions of "Let Your Love Flow," "Redneck Girl," "Old Hippie," and "If ...

Relieving the pressure of delivering her eagerly awaited fourth album, Miranda Lambert formed the Pistol Annies with Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley, two similarly minded singer/songwriters whose profile doesn't come close to matching hers. Lambert may be the star, but ...

Unknown Contributor Roles: Nelson Larkin; Ron Reynolds. Personnel: Kelly Back (guitar); Bobby All (acoustic guitar); Buddy Emmons (steel guitar); Hoot Hester, Audrey Haney (fiddle); Dirk Johnson (piano, keyboards); David Smith (bass guitar); Jerry Kroon (drums). Liner Note Author: Chuck Young.

Photographers: Kristin Barlowe; Russ Harrington; Jim Shea; Seņor McGuire. Loaded: The Best of Blake Shelton, is a solid collection of the country singer's singles, hits, and favorites from his five studio full-lengths, and the two six-track EPs he released in the ...

If Chris Young has a signature, it's his plainspoken likableness. Not the flashiest of singers, Young certainly isn't lacking in personality, something that goes a long way in distinguishing his clean commercial country. Walking a thin line between hard country ...

Possessed with boyish good looks suggesting a blonde Justin Bieber and being a genuine teen ā la Taylor Swift, it's perhaps easy to dismiss Hunter Hayes as country's long-needed tween heartthrob, but that assumption overlooks an important part of his ...

After parting ways with her longtime label, Rounder Records, Rhonda Vincent released Taken in 2010, and followed it with 2011's Your Money and My Good Looks, a duets album with Gene Watson. This time out, Sunday Mornin' Singin': Live! is ...

Yes, this 2012 release has the exact same 23 tracks as the 2003 anthology titled It Couldn't Have Been Any Better, the songs even playing in the same chronological order. But since the 2003 collection wasn't easy to find almost ...

Colt Ford has a larger than life hillbilly redneck public image but he's also a sly, passionate, and multi-layered writer and businessman, and as a former drummer, he knows what to do in a recording studio. He may work and ...

Old Crow Medicine Show sound like a prewar string band filtered through Uncle Tupelo via Nirvana, and if they aren't bluegrass by any stretch of the imagination, they are every bit as energetic as a breakneck bluegrass combo. They also ...

Not to be confused with the LEGEND box set released around the same time in 2005, THE LEGEND OF JOHNNY CASH is the first single-disc compilation to span the country icon's entire recorded career. Although whittling Cash's massive catalogue down ...

There have been many collections of Roger Miller's hitmaking peak on Mercury over the years, but few have been as comprehensive or as good as Mercury/Chronicle's 2003 CD, All Time Greatest Hits. Spanning 20 tracks over the course of one ...

Alison Krauss is back with Union Station for Paper Airplane, her 14th studio album and the band's first since 2004's Lonely Runs Both Ways. Krauss and the band self-produced the outing, working with engineer Mike Shipley. Recording information: Blackbird Studios; House ...

It wouldn't be out of line to call Brantley Gilbert a country rocker or an outlaw country artist, but don't let those terms conjure nostalgic images of Willie and Waylon in your head, because they mean something different when applied ...

With a sterling cast of backing musicians, Griffith sings the songs that have been a part of his life since his boyhood, when he would attend church faithfully and give voice to them with as much sincerity as he does ...

Even though he also cut a slew of country ballads and honky tonk tunes, Horton's fame rests with these folk saga songs. After spending the majority of the '50s reworking the classic sound of Hank Williams, Lefty Frizzell, and Webb ...