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 ...

GREATEST HITS brings together 25 of the finest remastered recordings from famed country star Jim Reeves. Digitally remastered collection from the legendary country singer with a generous helping of 25 of his many hit songs that are loved by millions round the world.

Possessed with boyish good looks suggesting a blonde Justin Bieber and being a genuine teen à 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 ...

Recorded between 1975 & 1982. Includes liner notes by Simon Glickman. Digitally remastered using 24-bit technology by Evren Goknar (Capitol Mastering). With 11 hit songs breaking the Top 40, Australia's Little River Band was one of the most successful groups to emerge ...

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 ...

One of country music's classic Christmas albums, LIGHT OF THE STABLE offers a satisfying mix of seasonal favorites and new compositions, all served up by the most compelling guardian of country music tradition, Emmylou Harris. On this 1979 release, Harris ...

Released in 1973, Greatest Hits only sums up a handful of years of hitmaking for John Denver, but what years those were. Between 1971 and 1973, Denver actually didn't have that many hits, but they were songs that defined him ...

The soundtrack to the Gwyneth Paltrow and Tim McGraw country music drama Country Strong is a collection of mainstream contemporary country that has a mild pop bent but stays just this side of country-pop. Instead, it follows the blueprint of ...

One of the strongest roots of country music has always been gospel, so this collection of country stars delivering gospel tunes live at the Opry seems like a perfectly natural occurrence. From the Charlie Daniels Band's frenetic, Southern-rock-tinged take on ...

Fantastic 2007 UK compilation that features all 23 tracks found on Ronstadt's original Greatest Hits (1976) and Greatest Hits, Vol. Two (1980). Although often overlooked today, Ronstadt was one of the most popular female vocalists throughout the '70s and '80s, ...

Mercury Nashville's 2005 compilation The Definitive Collection comes close to living up to its title billing. Although this glosses over the Statler Brothers' '60s recordings for Columbia -- it contains just their biggest hit from that time, their 1966 breakthrough ...

Colt Ford gets labeled country rap, but he's really closer in tone, spirit, and approach to rhythmic spoken word country records like Hank Williams' Luke the Drifter series, dramatically narrated trucker narratives like "Convoy," or Charlie Daniels' mock-epic "The Devil ...

Joy Williams and John Paul White aren't a couple, but they certainly sound like they're in love, singing together with the sort of familiarity that only seems to exist between couples and siblings. On Barton Hollow, their studio debut as ...

After two decades recording for Arista Records Nashville, Alan Jackson signed with EMI Records as a distributor of Jackson's own label, Alan's Country Records (ACR), and his 17th studio album, Thirty Miles West, produced by longtime collaborator Keith Stegall, marks ...

Release Me, Lyle Lovett's final album for Curb Records, the label he's been with since he broke onto the scene in 1985, was produced by Lovett and Nathaniel Kunkel, and features a mix of originals and covers showcasing the singer's ...

Like so many country singers from the Music City, Kip Moore got started as a songwriter, penning tunes for the duo Thompson Square. Moore displays a certain commercial savvy throughout his 2012 debut, Up All Night, sculpting his tunes with ...