This umpteenth greatest-hits collection by
Tanya Tucker
is different in three respects from all the others. The first is that it contains 16 tracks instead of ten or 13. Secondly, it really is a hits collection, arranged chronologically but also by actual chart position. Finally, it contains three
Arista
singles from 1982 in addition to the 13
Columbia
string of hits that ended in 1975. No one can argue with the music here. It's all top-notch Nashville class, from
"Delta Dawn"
through to her version of
Van McCoy
's
"Baby I'm Yours."
In between are stops at
David Allan Coe
"Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone)"
and
"Greener Than the Grass (We Laid On),"
Bobby Braddock
"I Believe the South Is Gonna Rise Again,"
Curly Putman
"Old Dan Tucker's Daughter"
"Blood Red and Goin' Down."
This is as good as it gets for
Tucker
, and a solid introduction to one of the hottest chart-makers
country
music had to offer in the 1970s and early '80s. ~ Thom Jurek