It's not accurate to say that ' catalog has been mistreated on CD -- he was one of the first major artists to be given an excellent, comprehensive multi-disc box set, and he's one of the few artists to see most of his actual full-length LPs reissued on CD. Despite all this activity, there has been one glaring omission from his discography: a single-disc overview of his career containing all his big hits. Released a few months after his death, 's 2006 release comes close to filling that bill. Like most collections that narrow their focus to just chart-toppers, contains the lion's share of the artist's best-known songs -- in this case, and his duet with on are all here -- yet misses some important and popular sides that came up shy of the pole position. Here, such early singles as and are missing in action, and all deserve a spot on a definitive introduction to , particularly since there's room for them on this 50-minute disc. Also, this comp suffers from odd sequencing: most of his best-known songs all arrive within the first six songs, including the 1988 re-recording of which sounds out of place sandwiched between the '60s classics After that introductory burst, it settles into a rough chronological order, which only highlights the fact that the 1988 would have been a better closer than 's admittedly fine 1969 live version of But this is nitpicking: there is no other single-disc CD that comes as close to offering as much of his best in one disc as , and it's nice to finally have such a collection in his catalog after such a long wait. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine