Steve Earle was on a roll in the mid-1980s; crashing onto a dilapidated country scene with his rock-influenced vitality, he turned out three classic albums in three years. His third, COPPERHEAD ROAD, is possibly the most accomplished. Here Earle streamlines ...

Jason Aldean has been slugging it out as a professional singer since high school, and the confidence gleaned from years of experience shines though on his self-titled debut album, as he delivers a strong collection of blue collar-themed songs in ...

Initial pressings of GREATEST HITS included a bonus DVD featuring the video "Blue." The CD also included the bonus tracks "O Holy Night" and "Silent Night." The American public (or at least the country-music-listening portion thereof) pretty much watched LeAnn Rimes ...

Audio Remasterer: Richard Dodd. Recording information: Treasure Isle Recording Studio. Editor: Brandon Epps. Photographer: Kristin Barlowe. Personnel: Billy Panda (acoustic guitar); Adam Shoenfeld, Kurt Allison (electric guitar); Michael "Mike Dee" Johnson (steel guitar); Tony Harrell (piano, Wurlitzer organ); Mike Rojas (piano); Tully Kennedy (bass ...

Ashley Monroe spent several years struggling to get heard in Nashville, establishing some behind-the-scenes bona fides by writing songs and singing backing vocals at Jack White's Third Man studios before things started to break her way in a big fashion ...

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 ...

A country singer finds himself straddling two worlds - the down-home place where his musical roots are set and the glittery fast lane where his success has taken him. In his first foray into the world of motion pictures, country ...

GREATEST HITS contains 12 hit songs and 5 newly recorded tracks. Digitally remastered by Denny Purcell (Georgetown Masters, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee). How does a guy without a gimmick establish a multi-album career successful enough to warrant a greatest-hits album in the market-based ...

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 ...

Liner Note Author: Doyle Lawson. Recording information: Hilltop Studios, Nashville, TN. Personnel: Doyle Lawson (vocals, guitar); J.D. Crowe (baritone, banjo); Paul Williams (vocals, tenor, mandolin); Ben Isaacs (bass voice); Ron Stewart (fiddle); Harry Stinson (snare drum). Audio Remixers: Doyle Lawson; Steve Chandler.

A greatest hits collection is almost a redundancy for this chart-topping contemporary country duo, since nearly everything they touch turns to gold (if not platinum). Nevertheless, this compilation condenses the band's catalog, including three brand new tracks, into 19 sparkling ...

Exile -- Greatest Hits offers a good cross-section of the band's late '70s and early '80s country-rock hits, including "Kiss You All Over" and "Woke Up In Love." ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Not to be confused with the Greatest Hits collection that Columbia released in 1989, this 1991 CD focuses on Billy Joe Royal's Atlantic output of the 1980s. Although this pop and pop-country material on the whole is much too slick, ...

Featured are "The Old Rugged Cross," "To My Mansion in the Sky, " "Just as I Am, " and others. ~ All Music Guide DON'T OVERLOOK SALVATION was nominated for a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Southern Gospel, Country Gospel Or ...

While Brenda Lee is sometimes overlooked--ignored in favor of her contemporary Patsy Cline or dismissed as a singer of pop and novelty songs--this generous best-of collection will hopefully help to correct those misconceptions. Lee was one of Nashville's brightest stars ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

17 Greatest Hits is the most thorough retrospective assembled of David Allan Coe's outlaw heyday, containing every one of his biggest hits -- including "You Never Even Called Me by My Name," "The Ride," "Mona Lisa Lost Her Smile," "Willie, ...

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, ...

A three-disc grab-bag of tunes by country supergroup the Highwaymen, this self-titled collection actually consists ofsolo tracks by each of the quartet's famous members--Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Waylon Jennings. A number of the tracks are live versions. Triple ...

Adapters: Tennessee Ernie Ford; Jack Fascinato. Personnel: Tennessee Ernie Ford (vocals). Arrangers: Tennessee Ernie Ford; Jack Fascinato.

THE BEST OF BONNIE RAITT ON CAPITOL 1989-2003 features Raitt's handpicked selections drawn from the era representing her greatest commercial success, kicking off with the three Grammy-winners from her Capitol debut, NICK OF TIME. Always an astute judge of other ...

Jerry Douglas is the undisputed King of the Dobro, a musician with monster chops. He cut his teeth playing bluegrass with the Country Gentlemen, but he's equally adept at almost any kind of music and has played with the top ...

Initial pressings of GREATEST HITS VOLUME 2 included a bonus CD. "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" won the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Country Song. The song was also nominated for Best Country Collaboration With Vocals. Anyone who earns a second volume of ...