This compilation, released just in time for Valentine's Day 2008, isn't the most unnecessary of ' career, but it's most useful if you're fairly new to and/or his love of love songs. If you own a decent collection, such as 2004's , most of this ground is covered. However, due to the gaps natural to an album such as 2006's -- ' best-selling album this decade -- this makes a tidy companion to that one, including as it does such smashes (but non-number ones) as and missing from the earlier comp. There's natural overlap, of course -- what fan doesn't already own or ? -- but if you're looking for a solid collection of ' love songs all in one place, you could do plenty worse than this. The liner notes by are fine, there's complete chart data for all songs, and all 17 tracks have been remastered. The best reason to recommend , however, is the quality of what's contained herein; it's hard to argue with any album, however dubious its necessity, including the likes of the duet (those voices were meant to sing together), ( plus never gets old), and (easy-lovin' early-'80s pop-country -- many did it, but did it best). ~ Thomas Inskeep